Bonjour! Hello! Ciao! I wanted to start a series for all us fashionistas who want to know more and want to know who they should know about etc. The series will just be short and sweet, just like this one…
Adrian Adolph Greenberg was born in 1903 and attended New York School for Fine & Applied Arts (Now Parsons School of Design), he moved to Hollywood in 1925 where he followed Cecil B. De Mille to MGM, and stayed there until 1941 when he opened his own design studio. He worked on other 250 films whilst at MGM. His film credits were seen as ‘Gowns by Adrian’.
He created Joan Crawford’s Shoulder Padded Power Suit which became a Fashion trend! He also created Jean Harlow’s gowns, and also designed the Ruby Slippers in The Wizard of Oz…
(Another amazing design) He was actually gay but, he still married a woman, to protect his career, and was married to her (Janet Gaynor) until the day he died. When he died he was buried in Hollywood, where Cecil B. De Mille was also buried.
