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"The Philadelphia Story"—and its costumes were a great success and Valentina became one of Hepburn's favorite designers; she worked with Hepburn on several succeeding films and Hepburn also commissioned her to create gowns for her personal use.

In his most recent couture collection for Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld created gowns with shoulders that looked as if they had been clapped with seat cushions.

That competition for aspiring fashion designers combines the personality clashes that are the lifeblood of reality shows with real deadline accomplishment: as the clock ticks, designers actually create ball gowns out of barbed wire, twigs and tulle.

"Project Runway" also found a large audience with its alchemy of cutthroat competition, hyper-sensitive egos and outlandish creativity on the clock: designers who are given 24 hours to create evening gowns out of bark or plastic wrap.

Ms. Jean, a former model, combines elements from different cultures to create ball gowns and suits in bright globally sourced textiles, so that you might find a chartreuse skirt with large zebras embroidered in sequins, or a T-shirt with the image of an Italian movie poster, or a dress printed with papayas and coconuts.

The Oscars is mostly a game of big European fashion houses, because they are the ones with the most money to throw around to sign actresses to lucrative fragrance deals, dressing contracts, or both, and they have the couture workrooms to create custom gowns.

"It would be great if he did a portrait of Hakeem, don't you think?" Wiley's series An Economy of Grace was the first time he painted women, casting from the streets of New York and enlisting Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy to create couture gowns.

A fashion designer, Nina Valenti, was commissioned to create a gown made from drink pouches collected by hundreds of American schoolchildren.

A former theater costume designer, he created state gowns for the queen until his death in 1979.

Eleven years later — when she established the Support Foundation to promote the production of folk handicrafts, in particular mat mii silk, or ikat — she again turned to Mr. Balmain and other international designers to combine the best of Thai and Western styles by creating couture gowns using the hand-woven silk, which is made from tie-dyed yarn.

It was through a weird and wonderful coincidence on BBC Radio 4 that we met to discuss quantum mechanics and plastic packaging, resulting in the Wonderland Project, where we created disappearing gowns and bottles as a metaphor for a planet that is going the same way.