Audrey Hepburn’s little black dress from Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Marilyn Monroe’s iconic Some Like It Hot frock are just two precious Hollywood costumes destined for London in October 2012, in an amazing new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Hollywood Costume, sponsored by Harry Winston, runs from October 28th through January 27th 2013.

Meryl Streep’s wardrobe from The Iron Lady is also on display. As Streep says, “The clothes are half the battle in creating the character.”

Also at the Victoria and Albert Museum -

Dorothy’s gingham pinafore dress from The Wizard of Oz.

And incredibly, Scarlett O’Hara’s green ‘curtains’ dress from Gone With the Wind. And an in-depth look at Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra wardrobe…

Four  key director/designer pairings are explored in the exhibition: Alfred Hitchcock and Edith
Head who worked together on 11 films including The Birds (1963); Tim Burton and Colleen
Atwood whose nine films together have spanned Edward Scissorhands (1990) to Alice in
Wonderland (2010); Martin Scorsese and Sandy Powell who have teamed on films from Gangs
of New York (2002) to the recent Hugo (2011); and Mike Nichols and Ann Roth who have
worked together for almost 30 years from Silkwood (1983) to Closer (2004).

Book your tickets to London now…For more on the joys of the Victoria and Albert Museum, see  The Holiday Goddess Handbag Guide to Paris, London, New York and Rome, published by HarperCollins.

(Images Wikimedia Commons.)