Une idée graphique du costume : les maquettes du cinéma français de l’après-guerre dans les collections de la Cinémathèque française

Abstract

With a corpus of one hundred and ninety-three costumes sketches from the preproduction of twenty-five fiction feature films produced in France between 1945 and 1959, drawn by eight costume designers and kept at Cinémathèque française, this article studies the part of these works in the process of filmmaking after the Second World War. The sketches were aesthetic and practical objects essential to the creation of original costumes for a particular film within a collective art form. Sketches were generally made up of three elements: the essential drawing which reveals the personal style of each designer and has the role of making visible their ideas; fabric samples indicating which materials and colours were chosen for the manufacture of the pieces, making them more tangible; and inscriptions giving details to collaborators for execution and shooting.

Keywords

• Costume design
• costume
• hairstyle
• sketch
• film studies