Florence Klotz
Florence Klotz, born Kathrina E. Klotz, also known as Flossie Klotz ( born October 28, 1920 in Brooklyn, † November 1, 2006 in Manhattan ) was an American costume designer. She has won six Tony Awards. The design of the costumes of Smiles of a Summer Night earned her an Oscar nomination.
Life and work
Klotz first attended the Parsons School of Design in New York. She then worked for Brooks Costumes, where she painted fabrics. In 1951, she was the assistant to Irene Sharaff and supported them in the costume outfit from The King and I. This was the beginning of her career as a costume designer.
In the following ten years assisted block known costume designers like Alvin Colt, Lucinda Ballard and Miles White ( 1914-2000 ). In 1961 she took over as A Call of Kuprin finally for the first time the function of the responsible designer. Her breakthrough came in 1971 with the piece Follies, after which they had many other successes. Total block was involved in about 60 Broadway productions. They often collaborated with composer Stephen Sondheim and director Harold Prince. Klotz ' costume creations were opulent, elegant and very expensive part.
Besides her work on Broadway Klotz worked as costume designers also in ballet, opera and film. The contact with the film industry came again about Harold Prince to pass, who directed both movies, in which she collaborated. During the filming was awarded to Smiles of a Summer Night, for its costume design Klotz later with an Oscar nomination, she got to know Elizabeth Taylor. This they then commissioned with the design of her wedding dress for the marriage in 1976 with Senator John Warner. Klotz also endowed several ballet productions by choreographer Jerome Robbins, John Curry Symphony on Ice, as well as Madama Butterfly performance of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Although Klotz musical theater preferred, they sometimes also worked in spoken theater, such as The Little Foxes (1981 ), Take Her, She 's Mine and The Owl and the Pussycat.
After she was involved in the 1980s in a number of successful little pieces like Harold and Maude, A Doll 's Life and Rags, they could in 1989 able to return to the previous success with the award-winning musical comedy City of Angels. In 1994, she was involved with Show Boat for the last time at a Broadway production. Two years later she ended her career as a costume designer by its employees in the performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down the Wind in Washington, DC.
Florence Klotz died aged 86 at her home in Manhattan of congestive heart failure. Your partner of many years, the Broadway producer Ruth Mitchell was, died in 2000.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
- Tony Awards in the category Tony Award / Best Costumes 1972: Follies
- 1973: A Little Night Music
- 1976: Pacific Overtures
- 1985 Grind
- 1990: City of Angels ( nomination )
- 1993: Kiss of the Spider Woman
- 1995: Show Boat
- Oscar 1978: nomination for Best Costume Design for Smiles of a Summer Night
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design 1971: Follies
- 1976: Pacific Overtures
- 1978: On the Twentieth Century
- 1990: City of Angels ( nomination )
- 1993: Kiss of the Spider Woman
- 1995: Show Boat
- Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award 1972: Follies
- 1974: A Little Night Music
- 1976: Pacific Overtures
- More Awards 2002: Patricia Zipprodt Award ( Fashion Institute of Technology)