All Those Silhouettes, Colors, and Hats... : Ester Krumbachová as a Costume Designer.
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Ester Krumbachová designed costumes for 26 films during the 1960s – quite a large number in the context of the time and the profession. Her activity stands out for its wide range of genres, which are also reflected in the approaches she took in particular works. Over the course of the decade, these approaches transformed significantly, together with her increasing self-confidence in film work. The corpus of surviving material in her newly accessed personal archive, together with the recollections of her contemporaries, allows us to reconstruct the specific steps she took in creating clothing for films, including the constructions of ideas woven into specific combinations, silhouettes, and accessories. Sources from Krumbachová’s estate provide an unprecedented view into the creative approaches of otherwise marginalized work. This essay thus aims to provide a different view of the Czechoslovak film “miracle” – through the lens of a profession that is unobtrusive, not very prestigious, and rarely studied. |
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