He comes across as desperate to be treated as a friend of the stars rather than someone offering them a paid service. Like Thomson, he watched these "larger-than-life" gods and goddesses in the cinema as a boy. Unlike Thomson, he did everything he...

Finery from classic Hollywood films, such as Fred Astaire's tap shoes, Rudolph Valentino's suit of lights from Blood and Sand, Mae West's platform shoes, and glamorous items worn by Marlene Dietrich and Jean Harlow, are also on view. This not-to-missed...

Love Lust series of specials returns tonight at 8 p.m. with a pop-culture dive into "Bad Girls" — Joan of Arc, Princess Diana, Eva Peron, and Mae West among them — and Vulture weighs in with some thoughts. For those who haven't seen the series, Love...

As hibernation season plods on, the Sundance Channel satisfies the need for a little pick-me-up without involving stage moms or pack rats. On the hourlong Love Lust, commentators from Columbia historian David Eisenbach to What Not to Wear’s Stacy London...

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His handiwork can be seen in more than 160 films during the industry’s golden age. As the chief designer for Paramount Studios from 1929 to 1938, he dressed such stars as Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard, Claudette Colbert, Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead,...