Abstract
This chapter provides the context for introducing the first Academy Awards banquet, explaining the commercial liaisons between the fashion and film industries that put Hollywood costume designers in the limelight as the foremost exponents of American fashion during the interwar years. In doing so, the book coins the term Hollywood Designers to distinguish those first costume designers who were trained in fashion and worked actively in the industry before and after their positions in the Hollywood studios’ costume departments. The chapter draws a parallel between the conformation of American fashion and film institutions by looking at the politics behind the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Fashion Group.
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