Tsuguharu Foujita
Tsuguharu Foujita was a Japanese-French artist. He achieved renown by applying Japanese ink techniques to Western art. He was the printmaker behind the illustrations for Michael Joseph's 1930 work A Book of Cats (a copy of which fetched $77,500 at a 2014 Bonhams Los Angeles sale).
Foujita's distinctive look bore a resemblance to another noted 20th Century personality employed in the arts? Name this person.
HINT: She gave good costume.
The answer is after the JUMP.
Foujita's distinctive look bore a resemblance to another noted 20th Century personality employed in the arts? Name this person.
HINT: She gave good costume.
The answer is after the JUMP.
Edith Head, the costume designer whose own fame rivaled that of many of the performers she dressed, was Tsuguharu Foujita's Hollywood-based doppelgänger.
If the inspiration for her look was indeed Tsuguharu Foujita, it would not be Edith Head's only questionable appropriation. When Howard Greer interviewed her to work under him at Paramount, she admitted to presenting fraudulent examples of her work. He hired her anyway, which is but one of many amusing anecdotes he relates in his delightful memoir Designing Male, A Nebraska Farm Boy's Adventures in Hollywood and with the International Set.
Moreover, even though Head happily accepted an Oscar for her work on Sabrina, the conventional wisdom has long been that Hubert de Givenchy designed Audrey Hepburn's costumes for that film. Head’s protégé Jean-Pierre Dorléac, however, disputes that. He told the Los Angeles Times that Head showed him the first-fitting prototype for the famous black H-neckline dress that Hepburn wore in that film.
Read more about Edith Head in The Fashion Makers and Edith Head's Hollywood. See also: The Givenchy Style.
If the inspiration for her look was indeed Tsuguharu Foujita, it would not be Edith Head's only questionable appropriation. When Howard Greer interviewed her to work under him at Paramount, she admitted to presenting fraudulent examples of her work. He hired her anyway, which is but one of many amusing anecdotes he relates in his delightful memoir Designing Male, A Nebraska Farm Boy's Adventures in Hollywood and with the International Set.
Moreover, even though Head happily accepted an Oscar for her work on Sabrina, the conventional wisdom has long been that Hubert de Givenchy designed Audrey Hepburn's costumes for that film. Head’s protégé Jean-Pierre Dorléac, however, disputes that. He told the Los Angeles Times that Head showed him the first-fitting prototype for the famous black H-neckline dress that Hepburn wore in that film.
Read more about Edith Head in The Fashion Makers and Edith Head's Hollywood. See also: The Givenchy Style.
Edith Head, Author Photo from the Dress Doctor; Inset: Tsuguharu Foujita
The image of Tsuguharu Foujita is from History of Men's Fashion. The image of Edith Head is from the back cover of The Dress Doctor.
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