Costume designerElois Jensson (1912 - 2004) won an Oscar for one of her first efforts, Cecil B. deMille's elaborate Biblical epic "Samson and Delilah" in 1950. Costume designer is a cinema term which refers to a person whose responsibilty is to design costumes for a movie or stage production. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ... Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 â January 21, 1959) was one of the most successful filmmakers during the first half of the 20th century. ... The Bible (From Greek βιβλια—biblia, meaning books, which in turn is derived from βυβλος—byblos meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported papyrus) is the sacred scripture of Christianity. ... Samson and Delilah can refer to: Samson and Delilah, a Biblical couple Samson and Delilah, an opera by Camille Saint-Saëns Samson and Delilah, a painting by Rembrandt Samson and Delilah, a 1949 movie This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Not the most prolific of Hollywood costume designers, in the 50s a lot of her time was spent on the "I Love Lucy" TV show. She sat out most of the 60s, returning at the end of the decade to work on the short-lived TV series "Bracken's World". ... I Love Lucy is a television sitcom that aired in the 1950s. ... Brackens World was a television program in syndication on a New York City TV channel in the mid-to-late 1970s, about five years after it actually aired. ...
After that, her only other screen credit was also her final film - the strkingly visual Disneysci-fi extravaganza "Tron" in 1982. Disney may refer to: The Walt Disney Company and its divisions, including Walt Disney Pictures. ... Sci-fi is an abbreviation for science fiction. ... Tron has several meanings: a movie, see Tron (film) an arcade game based on the movie, see Tron (arcade game) a German hacker whose nickname was Tron, see Tron (hacker) a real-time operating system kernel, see TRON Project. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Jenssen also considers the "broad-shouldered, Neo-classical drapery" of the cloaks worn by the Imperial Guard in The Return of the Jedi to be "a common costume device" for future world wardrobes (97).
Jenssen identifies other space costume devices, used by designers to displace the costumes from an historical context and thereby provide a futuristic flavour, as either asymmetry or alteration of the shape of design elements (98, 103, 110); unfamiliar colours or texture combinations (99, 100, 110); and conventional clothing items used in unconventional contexts (105).
Jenssen predicts that the work of costume designers will continue to picture the future in terms of "both the historic past and contemporary aesthetics" (112).