This exhibition will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the company which specialises in period costume for film, television and theatre.
It has been announced that the Fashion and Textile Museum will celebrate the 60th anniversary since John Bright OBE founded Cosprop, a company that has become renowned for its period costume for film, television and theatre.
On display from the 26th September until the 8th March, the display will feature many costumes which have never been seen in public before. This will include those costumes worn by Helena Bonham Carter in A Room with a View, Meryl Streep in Out of Africa, Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey, Colin Firth as Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, and Leslie Manville in Mrs Harris Goes to Paris.
Offering a unique opportunity to explore Cosprop’s creativity and go behind the scenes of the famous costume house. As well as the costumes themselves, also on display will be accessories and sketches which will allow visitors to learn the design and making process from script-to screen.
Leading costume designers and and actors will share their thoughts on favourite costumes, showing how Cosprop brought these magical moments to life.
Costume designer John Bright founded the company in 1965 and has been nominated six times for an Oscar and picked up the award in 1987 for his work on “A Room With a View” starring Helena Bonham Carter. He is curating the exhibition alongside Keith Lodwick who is a writer, curator and theatre and film historian. He is the former Curator of Theatre and Screen Arts at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. At the V&A, Keith was the assistant curator for the major exhibition Hollywood Costume (2012).
To book tickets visit: https://fashiontextilemuseum.org/exhibitionsdisplays/costume-couture-sixty-years-of-cosprop/