Sad news. Australian costumer designer Marit Allen died this week. She's the woman who brought you those shirts hanging famously, one inside the other, in Brokeback Mountain as well as that black sheath that the nude backside of Nicole Kidman slipped into in Eyes Wide Shut. I haven't updated my costume design shrines in a long while but I did do a Marit Allen tribute page in 2005, my tiny way of honoring a fine designer that AMPAS never recognized. This year Marit designed the costumes in both Love in the Time of Cholera (now playing) and La Vie En Rose (now on DVD)related: Oscar 2007 Costume Design page
