Why a Veteran Hollywood Costume Designer Chose New Orleans
Joel Kotkin, executive director of newgeography.com, has a thought-provoking piece about the booming film and TV production scene in Louisiana. Like Hollywood in the 1920s, Greenwich Village in the 1950s, Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s and Seattle in the 1980s, he suggests that New Orleans is the new go-to U.S. city for priced-out entertainment industry workers still looking for arts and culture excitement.
Kotkin talked to Wingate Jones, son of a former manager of LA’s Western Costume Company (John Golden), about why the former chose to open a similar business in New Orleans in 2010.
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