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  • Clothes from 1837-1919,  Girls on TV,  Guys on TV,  Interviews,  Premium

    The Alienist: Costume Featurette Provides Glimpse into Gilded Style

    26 Apr ’18 /

    Netflix have released a short featurette about costume design for The Alienist, giving an overall glimpse at the work of Michael Kaplan and his team in putting together the era of 1896, New York. What is enticing about The Alienist, apart from the fact that it’s brilliant whodunit telly, is that it is set outside of England, which is so often the preserve of dramas such as these. This is NY style at a point in history when those with money were about to get a whole lot more. Expensive, in other words, and if you had deep enough pockets your taste in fashion would echo this. Check out the…

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    Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Costume Round Up: Part 1

    22 Jun ’12

    Les Aventures Extraordinaires d’Adele Blanc-Sec: Full Trailer

    23 Mar ’10

    Sherlock Holmes Costume Guide Part 1: Frock Coats & Bustles

    17 May ’10
  • Clothes from 1837-1919,  Girls on TV,  Guys on TV,  Interviews,  Premium

    Homecoming: Betsy Heimann on Costuming Godless

    15 Dec ’17 /

    MINOR SPOILERS At a pivotal juncture during the Fathers & Sons episode of Godless (2017), the camera tracks into a pink ribbon tied on the back of young woman’s hair; a woman who is suffering from the onset symptoms of smallpox and unlikely to find recovery. Later in the episode we pan across dozens of freshly dug but unnamed graves each with it’s own crucifix. We don’t see the woman again, but on one of the crucifixes is tied a pink ribbon. Such is the power of even the slightest costume and accessory details in Godless, the narrative is informed by their very presence. Costume designer for Godless was Betsy…

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    Review: Oz the Great and Powerful

    4 Mar ’13

    Lucinda Wright on Costume in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

    2 Jul ’13

    Review: The Woman in Black

    10 Feb ’12
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Premium

    Disney’s Cinderella Trailer: The Costumes of Sandy Powell

    21 Nov ’14 /

    The first full-length trailer for Disney’s new live-action adaptation of Cinderella was this week and featured tantalising glimpses of what promises to be a visually gorgeous film. The costumes, designed by three time Academy Award winner Sandy Powell, appear to be absolutely stunning. With a clever mix of the eighteenth century, the 1830s, and a little 1950s couture thrown in for good measure (Powell has been quoted as saying she was aiming for the look of “a nineteenth-century period film made in the 1940s or ’50s”), Powell has created another jewel to add to her already over-bling crown. Here is a quick rundown of some of the looks we’ve been…

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    Costume Clues Reveal All in The Cabin in the Woods

    14 Dec ’12

    Dual Analysis: Beetle Juice – Chris’ Thoughts

    27 Oct ’09

    New Tron Legacy Banners Bring the Costumes

    17 Sep ’10
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    Penny Dreadful: Dressing the Monsters of Victorian London

    20 May ’14 /

    NO SPOILERS Real and mythological, figurative and literal; monsters of all kinds abound in Sky Atlantic’s new period horror series Penny Dreadful. We might expect a skulking figure in a top hat and frock coat to be scary, though who would have thought a bustle and redingote could be so terrifying? Well, step forward Eva Green as enigmatic Vanessa Ives. Not hero nor villain, but a dead eyed clairvoyant who definitely shouldn’t be invited to dinner parties. Penny Dreadful is set in 1891, although is more a literary parallel universe than true reflection of the era. Some of the characters featured are written for the show (Vanessa), some existed in…

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    Homecoming: Betsy Heimann on Costuming Godless

    15 Dec ’17

    Dress like a Peaky Blinder

    13 Sep ’13

    Sherlock Holmes Costume Guide Part 2: Tweed Suits and Ulsters

    20 May ’10
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    The Lone Ranger: Never take off the Mask

    30 Jul ’13 /

    There is not man behind the mask; the mask is The Lone Ranger.

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    Review: Django Unchained

    28 Dec ’12

    Dark Shadows Trailer: Campy, Period Blending Costume Fun

    16 Mar ’12

    Dual Analysis: The Young Victoria – Chris’ Thoughts

    28 Jul ’10
  • Clothes from 1837-1919

    12 Years a Slave Trailer: Fine Fabrics

    16 Jul ’13 /

    Fabrics jump out of the screen in this trailer for 12 Years a Slave.

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    Dark Shadows Trailer: Campy, Period Blending Costume Fun

    16 Mar ’12

    Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Costume Round Up: Part 1

    22 Jun ’12

    True Grit: Full Trailer Moseys Along

    5 Oct ’10
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    Review: Lincoln

    1 Feb ’13 /

    The biggest compliment that can be paid to Joanna Johnston’s costumes in Lincoln is that you will hardly notice them.

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    Dark Shadows Trailer: Campy, Period Blending Costume Fun

    16 Mar ’12

    Costume Designer Joanna Johnston Talks Lincoln & Jack

    8 Feb ’13

    Les Aventures Extraordinaires d’Adele Blanc-Sec: Full Trailer

    23 Mar ’10
  • Clothes from 1837-1919,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Interviews,  Pre-Victorian,  Premium

    Sharen Davis Costume Interview: Django Unchained

    1 Jan ’13 /

    Django Unchained costume designer Sharen Davis exclusively explains her work on the film.

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    Status and Signifiers: Costume in There Will Be Blood

    1 Apr ’14

    The Not so Colourblind Costumes of The Personal History of David Copperfield

    31 Jan ’20

    Review: War Horse

    16 Jan ’12
  • Clothes from 1837-1919,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films

    Review: Django Unchained

    28 Dec ’12 /

    Costume designer Sharen Davis finds a good fit with Tarantino; their Deep South bounty hunter Django is a visibly memorable protagonist crying out for a sequel.

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    Review: War Horse

    16 Jan ’12

    Review: The Woman in Black

    10 Feb ’12

    Costume Designer Anaïs Romand Discusses House of Tolerance

    7 Sep ’12
  • Clothes from 1837-1919,  Film Reviews,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films

    Review: Les Misérables

    20 Dec ’12 /

    Les Misérables is drenched in costume symbolism, specifically revolutionary red, white and blue. Subtle was never its intention.

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    Recreating the Levi’s Spring Bottom Pants Advert from 1905

    4 Jun ’14

    First Trailer for Sherlock Holmes Online – No Deerstalker! No Mac Farlane!

    19 May ’09

    The Alienist: Costume Featurette Provides Glimpse into Gilded Style

    26 Apr ’18
  • Clothes from 1837-1919,  Girls in Films,  Premium

    The Phantom of the Opera: Colour, Character and Costume

    5 Dec ’12 /

    The Phantom of the opera demonstrates that the colour, size and shape of a character’s costumes can communicate on a subliminal level.

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    Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Costume Round Up: Part 1

    22 Jun ’12

    Sleepy Hollow: Q&A with Costume Designer Kristin M. Burke

    4 Feb ’14

    The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Costume Q&A with Lucinda Wright

    3 Jun ’11
  • Clothes from 1837-1919,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News

    Django Unchained: Tarantino’s First Costume Oscar?

    23 Oct ’12 /

    Could Django Unchained be the first Quentin Tarantino movie to win a Costume Design Oscar?

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    Review: War Horse

    16 Jan ’12

    Sherlock Holmes 2: Q&A With Costume Designer Jenny Beavan

    4 May ’11

    The First Great Train Robbery: Sean Connery’s Victorian Coat

    5 May ’09
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