NYWIFT Blog

Road to Designing Women: Goodie Madness in the Gift Bags

Goodie bag items at the NYWIFT office waiting to be packed up. One of the fun things about New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) awards shows is the gift bags, and this year’s Designing Women is no exception to the rule. This year’s bag will overflow with goodies from Ricky’s and Sephora. Taste buds...

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Road to Designing Women: ’70s Glam Makes a Comeback

Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams in American Hustle.  Seventies retro is in. Along with the comeback of flared jeans, maxi dresses, and floppy hats are the faces that mirror the fashion. Women on runways, red carpets, and city streets are sporting heavy eyeliner, false eyelashes, and bronzed cheekbones à la American Hustle. American Hustle makeup department...

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Designing Women MC Announced & ‘Variety’ Highlights NYWIFT Awards

//embed.gettyimages.com/embed/494514351?et=alTwHaCxS0VmABnwWcpD0Q&sig=GPnpOTBCkABWlhUOhLVy7AwhcI_ndIuJROjKCH7s3S4= Jessica Alba speaks at the Social Innovation Summit 2014. Variety announced the honorees and presenters for New York Women in Film & Television’s 2014 Designing Women Awards this past week. The stars are coming out for these unique awards that honor women in costumes, hair and makeup, including Jessica Alba, Denis Leary and Rose...

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Road to Designing Women: The Invite

New York Women in Film & Television is honoring costume, makeup and hair designers on June 18, 2014. Join us! Tickets now available.

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Road to Designing Women: Throwback 2012

Costume, Makeup and Hair design team of Boardwalk Empire We almost couldn’t fit everyone in the photograph! Designing Women 2012 was a fabulous year. We honored makeup artists Jenn Jorge Nelson (30 Rock, Baby Mama, Hope and Faith) and Julie Teel (30 Rock, Ugly Betty, In Treatment), hair stylist and wigmaker Amanda Miller (Inside Llewyn Davis, Smash,...

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Road to Designing Women 2014: Join Us on June 18 in NYC

Annie production still courtesy of Sony Pictures Publicity. When fashion meets film, the results are some of the silver screen’s most striking moments—the majestic dancers announcing Elizabeth Taylor’s arrival in Rome in Cleopatra, Ursula Andress rising from the ocean in Dr. No, Jimmy Stewart’s first glance of the mysterious Kim Novak in Vertigo. The costume...

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