Costume Designers Guild Sets Van Smith For Hall Of Fame; Longtime Collaborator John Waters To Present Posthumous Honor
deadline.comVan Smith, who worked on all of John Waters‘ films for more than 30 years, is headed to the Costume Designers Guild‘s Edith Piaf Hall of Fame.
Smith will be inducted posthumously by his longtime director at the CDG Awards ceremony on February 6 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles.
Considered one of the “Dreamlanders,” Waters’ ensemble of regular cast and crew members, Smith first worked with the quirky filmmaker on Pink Flamingos (1972), including the famous and often copied look of the film’s star Divine.
Their legacy includes the extreme outfits of the flamboyant criminals and hairdressers in Female Trouble (1974) and the grotesque Mortvillians in Desperate Living (1977) Smith to Polyester (1982) and Hairspray (1988) to more mainstream films such as Cry-Baby (1990) and Serial Mom (1994).
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