Elder Ki, The Famous Drama Costume Designer, Died At The Age Of 88.

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Elder Ki (right)

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Theoni V. Aldredge died in January 21st in Stamford, Connecticut, at the age of 88. She died of a heart attack. She died in January 21st.

Elder Ki was once a hundred Broadway musicals.

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In films, TV and ballet, many of her works are involved. Her most dazzling aura is the best Oscar award in 1975, thanks to the movie "The Great Gatsby". "Gatsby,"

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You can't compete with the host. What you need to do is add icing on the cake, because costumes not only satisfy the aesthetic taste of the producers and directors, but the most important thing is to make the actors comfortable.

For me, the best design is the design that people can't feel.

If people say, "look, the actors seem to be wearing their own clothes."

That is the biggest compliment to me. "

In the 1984 interview with New York Times, he was so critical of the work of designing theater costumes.

Born in Greece in 1922, Elder Ki was fond of fiddling with dolls and giving them to them.

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In 1949, after graduating from American School in Athens, she was accepted by Goodman School of Drama in Chicago. Goodman,

In a movie projection in New York, Elder Ki was deeply attracted by the gorgeous costumes of the actors, thus embarking on the fashion design road.

In 1959, Elder Ki came to the fore in Broadway musical Sweet Bird of Youth.

Costumes, introduced in 1960 to director Shakespeare PAP of New York's Shakespeare Festival, then quickly became the chief designer of her company by performing well in the Measure for Measure, which lasted for more than twenty years.

Elder Ki has won numerous awards, including three Toni prizes, namely Anne (Annie), Barnum (Barnum) and La Cage aux Folles, and 11 nominations for Toni awards, including a row of Chorus (A Chorus Line), Forty-second Street (42nd Street) and dream girl.

In 1975, Elder Ki was awarded the best costume design of Oscar awards with the movie "the great Gatsby". In 2002, she won the Aileen Sharaff (Irene Sharaf) lifetime achievement award.