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STEP UP 2006 Noras best friend Lucy (Drew Sidora) “Anne wanted to create a very real dance world, so I felt the clothing had to be very eclectic, with lots of patterns going on. We didn't want it to be simple and basic. We wanted it to have tons of texture,” Alix Hester says. The movie was a great chance for Hester to put her focus on a fashion area not usually emphasized in film: shoes. "The great thing about doing a dance movie is that it shows a lot of feet, so I got to do a lot of great shoes, like boots and even bare feet with interesting socks," says Hester. next>>> ALIX HESTER (Costume Designer) began her career in the mid-1990s in the wardrobe department of "Dead Man Walking." She served as costume designer on "Mysterious Skin," "The Brightness You Keep," "Attraction" and "Love in the Ruins." Her credits as costumer include work on "The Wedding Crashers," "Bewitched," "The Terminal," "The Whole Ten Yards," "The Ladykillers," "Intolerable Cruelty," "Catch Me If You Can," "One Hour Photo," "Shallow Hal," "American Beauty," "Cradle Will Rock" and "Blast From the Past." She designed for the stage for about six years prior to starting her film career. In the early 1990s, she worked all over Europe with avante-garde theater director Reza Abdoh, and then did his only film, "The Blind Owl." For six years Hester was resident costume designer with Tim Robbins' LA theater company, The Actors Gang. She also has credits with the Geffen, Taper New Works, and Lincoln Center Director's Lab theaters. Director: Anne Fletcher |
