RAGS TO RICHES.(movie costumer designer Ann Roth)(Interview)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 20-OCT-03

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Though Ann Roth doesn't like to toot her own horn, or pat herself on the back, or really talk about what she does at all, she will say this: she totally gets the aesthetic of the working girl, and when she dressed Melanie Griffith for the movie that was a paean to said girl she could envision Griffith's character--the hair, the shoulder pads, the unforgettable running shoes--right down to which drawer she kept her nude hose in.

This fall, Roth is presiding over a vast hangar at the Philadelphia Naval Yard, where she is designing the costumes for a new M. Night Shyamalan movie about an isolated utopian community in the nineteenth century. The hangar...

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