About the curators

 

Senior Guest Curator – Professor Deborah Nadoolman Landis

Deborah Nadoolman Landis’s costume design credits include: Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Trading Places and Coming to America for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. She most recently designed the period comedy Burke & Hare (2010). Professor Landis received her Ph.D. from The Royal College of Art, London.

In addition to her books Screencraft: Costume Design (Focal Press,2003), 50 Costumes/50 Designers: Concept to Character (University of California Press, 2004)and Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume (HarperCollins, 2007), Landis is currently preparing Deconstructing Glamour (University of California Press). Landis is authoring three books in 2012: Filmcraft/Costume Design (Ilex Press, 2012), Divine Design: 100 Years of Motion Picture Costume Illustration (Harper Collins, 2012) and is the editor of Hollywood Costume, the V&A publication to accompany the major exhibition. A two-term President of the Costume Designer’s Guild, Professor Landis is the David C. Copley Chair and the Founding Director of the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She teaches at the American Film Institute and is a professor at the University of the Arts, London.

Guest Curator – Professor Sir Christopher Frayling

Sir Christopher Frayling is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History at the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge. He was until recently Rector of the Royal College of Art and Chairman of Arts Council England, the largest funding body for the Arts in the UK. An award-winning broadcaster on network radio and television with numerous documentaries about art, design and film to his credit, he is the author of 18 books on aspects of contemporary and historical culture, including Ken Adam: The Art Of Production Design (Faber and Faber, 2005), Once Upon A Time In Italy: The Films Of Sergio Leone (Thames & Hudson, 2008), Henry Cole and the Chamber of Horrors (V&A Publishing, 2010), Horace Walpole’s Cat (Thames & Hudson, 2009), Clint Eastwood (Virgin Books, 1992) and Nightmare – Birth of Horror (BBC Books, 1996).

Frayling is a Governor of the British Film Institute. He has been Chairman of the Design Council, Chairman of the Crafts Study Centre and a member of the Crafts Council. He is currently Chair of the Royal Mint Advisory Council and an 1851 Commissioner. He has curated major exhibitions at the RCA, the V&A and Tate Britain, and contributed to numerous catalogues and journals including Hollywood Costume, the V&A publication to accompany the major exhibition. He was the longest-serving Trustee of the V&A, from 1983–2009.

Assistant Curator (V&A) – Keith Lodwick

Keith Lodwick trained as a set and costume designer at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London and has designed over 30 stage productions including the award-winning 'The Bloody Chamber' by Angela Carter, which he also adapted for the stage. His theatre design work has been exhibited in Time&Space (Royal College of Art 1999), 2D>3D: Theatre for Performance (Millennium Galleries, Sheffield 2002), and Collaborators: UK Design for Performance (Nottingham Trent University 2007) for the Society of British Theatre Designers.

Lodwick joined the V&A Theatre & Performance Department in 2007 as Assistant Curator for Web and Digital Projects. Since then he has worked on the new Theatre & Performance Galleries which opened in March 2009. Lodwick has recently contributed to Oliver Messel: In the Theatre of Design (Rizzoli, New York, 2011) and the V&A publication, Hollywood Costume.