![]() ![]() ![]() As the 90s settled in however, Houston was ready to branch out into something new-namely, acting-and she found just the project to launch her new endeavor in the romantic drama "The Bodyguard" (1992). She returned to the studio for 1990's I'm Your Baby Tonight, which went quadruple platinum. She later followed it with 1987's Whitney, which contained so many popular songs that it made Houston the first woman in recorded music to generate four number-one singles from a single album. The album that introduced the world to Houston's talent sold over 13 million copies, making it the best-selling debut ever by a female artist. She signed her first recording contract with Arista Records under the guidance of executive Clive Davis in 1983 and released her self-titled debut two years later. Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1963, Houston began honing her powerful voice in her church choir with guidance from her mother, renowned gospel vocalist Cissy Houston. Whitney Houston is often described without hyperbole as one of the greatest singers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) It was all amazing,” she said.Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997) “The dress was perfect, but she wears it in a nightclub (scene) where her husband has an altercation. “Sparkle,” on the other hand, was the exception, and Carter said one of her favorite looks from the movie is a vintage blue satin dress actress Carmen Ejogo wears. It’s impossible budgets, but the art is still in the script,” she lamented. “We’re given sticks to rub together to make a fire. Her career has been a succession of hits, though she longs for the days when films had more reasonable costume budgets. “My mother said, ‘You went to school for four years to do laundry’.”īut an internship at Stage West, a live theater company in downtown Springfield, honed Carter’s sewing skills and she moved to Los Angeles in 1987. I (also) had to do the laundry every day,” she recalled. “I was the girl going to those little live shows, with a hot glue gun, squirting glue into the back of those big heads so it wouldn’t split open. I was committed.”Īfter graduating from Virginia’s Hampton University, she got her first, short-lived job managing the costume department at Riverside Amusement Park (now Six Flags) in Agawam. “I remember staying at school over Christmas break sewing these dance costumes. “I did Moliere’s ‘The Would-Be Gentleman,’ and every play or musical or dance performance after that, they wanted me to do the costumes,” she recalled. ![]() The 52-year-old caught the acting bug through the Upward Bound program in high school, but losing a role in college turned her attention to costumes. “I shipped 150 containers to Detroit, and it was like a freight train that left the station and was nonstop.” That was my only directive,” Carter recalled. ![]() “Producers said we have to have the red dresses (from the original film). She sought out fashion designer B Michael for Houston’s handmade lady-who-lunches dresses and mixed vintage and retro-inspired styles culled from Sony’s wardrobe warehouse. “For Whitney … it’s hard to put your head around designing for someone like her. “We’ve worn out the gospel robe so we did handmade homespun dresses for the choir,” she said. Carter spoke via telephone from New Orleans where she is working on “The Butler,” a Lee Daniels-directed (“Precious”) film starring Mariah Carey, and said she went out of the box with Houston’s costumes for her church choir/mother role. ![]()
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