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Palace Costume

Inside Hollywood’s Best Kept Fashion Secret

Mimi Haddon

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Chronicle Books
04 June 2024
Palace Costume is a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Palace Costume & Prop Co., an exclusive Los Angeles film-industry haven of dresses, gowns, garments, accessories, props, and jewelry featured in countless movies for more than fifty years.

Curated for the exclusive benefit of costumers, stylists, and designers, Palace Costume & Prop Co. has lent authenticity and panache to classic films such as Chinatown, The Godfather, Boogie Nights, Austin Powers, The Big Lebowski, and Coming to America, to name but a few. Oscar-winning costume designers such as Mark Bridges, Sandy Powell, and Ruth Carter have been known to peruse the archive for inspiration and specific pieces for their films. Interviews with several Academy Award–nominated costume designers, including Shirley Kurata of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once and Mary Zophres of True Grit, La La Land, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Babylon, are featured in the book.

Palace Costume has been the vision of Melody Barnette, whose journey in retro clothing is movie-worthy itself. Her first boutique in Los Angeles in the early 1970s attracted the likes of Diana Ross and Joni Mitchell and many other rock-and-rollers from the era. This inspired her to transition the business into a to-the-trade-only rental service enabling her to hold onto and care for these vintage gems. Fifty years later, her 30,000-square-foot trove of over half a million pieces is a beloved and legendary collection featured for the first time in Palace Costume.

LA-based photographer Mimi Haddon has been carefully curating and artfully photographing the vintage treasures at Palace Costume for many years. Over 300 of her stunning, stylized, and saturated images are featured in this visually comprehensive and delightful celebration of this one-of-a-kind archive. This inspirational look-book is sure to delight a wide audience, including vintage-clothing enthusiasts, fashionistas, costume designers, stylists, and cinephiles.
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Imprint:   Chronicle Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   434g
ISBN:   9781797228853
ISBN 10:   1797228854
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Mimi Haddon is a Los Angeles–based photographer, fiber artist, professor of photography at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM), and art department chair at New Roads School. Her clients include Disney, Mattel, Getty Images, and the New Yorker. Her work has been featured in Communication Arts and the New York Times.

Reviews for Palace Costume: Inside Hollywood’s Best Kept Fashion Secret

“Flipping through these pages offers a taste of what a trip to the vintage emporium is like, where 30,000 square feet is filled—methodically and exactingly—from floor to ceiling, with more than 500,000 items.” —Vogue “The legend of Palace Costume receives the respect it deserves with a beautiful art book. Over 300 images, by photographer and stylist Mimi Haddon, illustrate this delightful book, and Hollywood’s top costume designers explain what they love about the Palace costumes and props.” —The Guardian “In this celebratory visual archive, Mimi Haddon features costume designers’ stories about the business alongside stills from movies that have featured its clothes.” —The New York Times “Palace Costume, the vintage fashion wonderland that’s been supplying Hollywood with wardrobes since the 1970s, gives the public a peek inside its archives with this decade-in-the-making photo book.” —The Hollywood Reporter “We’re loving this new book by contributor Mimi Haddon. A colorful spotlight on Hollywood treasure trove Palace Costume—which provides looks and inspiration for many of your fave movies, musicians, fashion shoots, etc.—the book offers a vicarious tour of the collection for those of us who can’t get there IRL.” —Zoetrope magazine “Palace Costume, a book about the most important costume house in Hollywood” —Design Better podcast “Inside the secret, sprawling warehouse that’s home to Hollywood’s best costumes. Palace Costume is closed to the public—but a new photography book takes you inside.”—Fast Company


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