BANTON Travis (Designer)

Travis Banton's costume for Marlene Dietrich is from the film Shanghai Express (1932). He disguised her as a black swan in a costume of feathers, veiled and hung with ropes of crystal beads. Her handbag and gloves were specially made for her by Hermès; the hat was a John P. John creation. Banton regularly visited Paris; on one occasion, he bought up an entire stock of bugle beads and fish-scale paillettes reserved for Schiaparelli. In reparation, he sent her enough trim to complete her line for the season. Banton worked in couture in New York; his break came when he designed the costumes for Paramount's The Dressmaker from Paris (1925), after which he became Paramount's head designer. He designed for Dietrich, Mae West, Claudette Colbert and Carole Lombard. One of his signatures was dressing women in men's clothes. He continued to run his successful couture business alongside costume designing. 

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