Travilla Estate Editions

The PAI Travilla Estate Collection is a priceless archive of fashion and costume design that explores the vision and taste of Mr. William Travilla, known to the film and fashion worlds as simply Travilla, and to his closest friends as “T”.

Collection Overview: The Travilla Estate Art Prints published by PAI have been selected from Mr. Travilla’s personal archive and includes examples of his costume work for film and television and his couture quality designs for the Travilla fashion house. The print editions cover a time span from the late 1930’s through 1990 and include fashion sketches, fashion photography, costume designs, and film production art.

The Travilla Costume Collection include limited edition design sketches of some of the most famous gowns in the history of cinema including Travilla’s work with Marilyn Monroe on eight films; plus a galaxy of A list stars that spans six decades and includes Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Crawford, Faye Dunaway, Diane Carroll, and Rachael Ward, to drop just a few names.

The Travilla Fashion Collection also span six decades and present an amazingly consistent and timeless style. Travilla knew how to make a woman look glamorous. PAI Estate prints include a unique series of limited edition fashion sketches and open edition photographs and posters.

The original art and photography in the Travilla Collection only survives today thanks to the heroic efforts of Travilla’s friends and associates Mr. Bill Sarris and Mr. Giorgos Dimakis, who’s great efforts (including rescuing the art from fire) have kept Travilla’s legacy alive – gentleman, our heartfelt thanks.

Travilla Bio

Travilla landed his first film job at the already legendary Western Costume where he began ghost-sketching for studio designers. After a stint at Western where he learned the business, Travilla took a job at Jack’s of Hollywood another busy Hollywood costume shop. At Jack’s he gets his first big name client, Sonja Henie, as well as, assignments for United Artists and Columbia. With his success at Jack’s, Travilla set out on his own. And fails. Or, more accurately falls upward...
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