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| Above: Adrian often used bias pinstripes to give a feminine edge to a masculine fabric. The shifts and angles are breathtaking and help to give the illusion of the perfect figure with the use of optical angles. |
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From 1928 to 1942, the foremost fashion designer in Hollywood was Gilbert Adrian Greenburg, a Connecticut-born art student who was discovered by Irving Berlin in Paris and brought back to Broadway at the age of 18 to make costumes for Berlin’s 1921 “Music Box Review.” Known ever since simply as “Adrian,” he later left Broadway and had a meteoric rise in Hollywood working for Cecil B. De Mille and then for MGM until he quit to create Adrian Ltd. in Beverly Hills, California.
Adrian designed costumes for Judy Garland, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, and Joan Crawford, just to name a few. More than 30 Adrian garments are included in the exhibition, “The Artistry of Adrian: Hollywood’s Celebrated Design Innovator,” on display through December 8, 2002 at the Kent State University Museum.
 For additional information and museum hours, visit the
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| Listen in as WKSU’s Vivian Goodman tours the exhibition with its curator, Noël Palomo-Lovinski. |
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