CDG - The Costume Designer

In une the ollywood eritage Museum honored the late CDG member Wayne Finkelman with an exhibit Comedy meets Costume: Costume Designer Wayne Finkelman goes verboard with Goldie awn Curated by eath Daniels the display eatured doens o Wayne's illustrations personal photographs and original costumes rom the 7 Goldie awn comedy verboard Daniels rst became aware o Wayne Finkelman while doing research in the Western Costume Company library in 7 Western was Wayne's working home or many years Ater his death in 4 Wayne's partner Gilbert ernnde began donating Wayne's research materials and sketches to the library The library had ust received a large shipment o items that included the research and illustrations Wayne had done or the lm Partners It was a wonderul insight into his creative process ne binder included Wayne's onthestreet snapshots o lie in West ollywood in is exuisite charcoal drawings highlighted the in uence o his research The publicity stills rom the lm showed the completed designs It was all there I was hooked and wanted to know more about Wayne said Daniels Wayne Finkelman was born in 47 in New ork Following his parents' separation he and his mother moved to Rome where he was raised and educated In 7 he became the top makeup artist at Eliabeth Arden and was sent to New ork where he was known as Wayne o Eliabeth Arden Makeup was Wayne's entrance into the world o glam our but he wanted to create headtotoe looks so he returned to Rome in 7 e honed his skills as a hair designer and costumer eventually assisting costume designers Piero Tosi and Danilo Donati Deora adooman andis and eat Danies Marene teart eat Danies Aert os and oe ana n otos eat Danies Curator 34 THE COSTUME DESIGNER | FALL 2022

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