Legendary Nudies Rodeo Tailors of North Hollywood Remembered at Country Music Hall of Fame

The legendary and iconic Nudie's Rodeo Tailors of North Hollywood is being honored at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum with a new spotlight exhibit that will be on display until November of 2012.

Titled “Silver Threads and Golden Needles: Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors,” the exhibit pays tribute to Nudie Cohn, whose North Hollywood shop at 5015 Lankershim Boulevard designed custom-made clothing for many music and film stars, incuding Gene Autry, Glen Campbell, Elvis Presley, Dale Evans, Johnny Cash, Ronald Reagan, Cher, Elton John, Robert Redford, Steve McQueen, Roy Rodgers and Hank Williams (to name a few).

The exhibit opened on Oct. 28, according to the Great American Country network's website, and tracks Cohn's life from immigrating to America from the Ukraine when he was 11, to starting off designing burlesque outfits for dancers in New York to his move to Los Angeles, where he first starting making clothes out of his garage before opening his shop.

Cohn is credited with being the first person to fasten rhinestones to clothing and found himself the go-to clothing designer for many country music stars and Western film stars after opening Nudie's of Hollywood in North Hollywood near Victory Boulevard and Vineland Avenue in the late 40s. The name eventually changed to Nudies Rodeo Tailors and in 1963 the shop moved to 5015 Lankershim Boulevard in what is now the NoHo Arts District. 

Cohn passed away in 1984, but remains perhaps country music's most famous and influential figure that didn't play music. Cohn's wife and granddaughter kept the shop going until 1994. Today the location is

Cohn's work has also been displayed recently at the Mode Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, according to the New York Times. Titled "Dreamsuits," the exhibit features Cohn's suits that were made for Belgian country star Bobbejaan Schoepen, who was the first non-British European to play at the Grand Ol' Opry.