Edith Head | Clothes on Film – Part 2

This coral pink ensemble encompasses and challenges the absolute femininity of Grace Kelly.

This is the most fun and elaborate outfit Grace Kelly wears in To Catch a Thief.

As worn by Grace Kelly, this floaty, conspicuous dress is an appreciable nod to Dior’s ‘New Look’ of the late 1940s.

Christie’s are auctioning several Edith Head sketches for costume designs worn by Grace Kelly.

Last week Clothes on Film visited the Grace Kelly: Style Icon exhibition. This is what we found out.

Of course Rear Window wasn’t all about Grace Kelly…

Costume designers need to create a look that is both fashionable and timeless. Not an easy task.

While still alluring, as practically anything is on Grace Kelly, this is perhaps her least successful outfit overall from Rear Window (1954, as Lisa Fremont). The jacket seems slightly too long and loose for the slenderness of the skirt; it doesn’t fit Kelly’s figure as comfortably as it might. However even with its faults the suit still reflects a vital side of Lisa’s complex personality: her professional, tailored femininity.

This might be the most famous and copied outfit Grace Kelly ever wore.