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Costume Designers Guild Sets Van Smith For Hall Of Fame; Longtime Collaborator John Waters To Present Posthumous Honor


John Waters' longtime collaborator Van Smith will be inducted into the Costume Designers Guild Hall of Fame, with Waters presenting the honor.

Smith will be inducted posthumously by his longtime director at the CDG Awards ceremony on February 6 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. Considered one of the “Dreamlanders,” Waters’ ensemble of regular cast and crew members, Smith first worked with the quirky filmmaker on Pink Flamingos(1972), including the famous and often copied look of the film’s star Divine. Their legacy includes the extreme outfits of the flamboyant criminals and hairdressers in Female Trouble(1974) and the grotesque Mortvillians in Desperate Living(1977) Smith to Polyester(1982) and Hairspray(1988) to more mainstream films such as Cry-Baby(1990) and Serial Mom(1994).

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