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  • Clothes from 1930s,  Clothes from 1940s,  Clothes from 1950s,  Clothes from 1960s,  Clothes in Films,  Girls in Films,  Premium

    Costuming Hitchcock: An Extract from Hitchcock’s Heroines by Caroline Young

    6 Jun ’18 /

    Author Caroline Young has just released a fascinating new book entitled Hitchcock’s Heroines (published by Insight Editions). It celebrates and studies the women in Hitchcock movies; their influence, semblance and iconography. What’s more, Young also examines the role costume design plays with these women, both the characters and the actresses who played them, and how they can be interpreted as far more than just ‘icy blondes’. Here we have an extract of the book exclusively for Clothes on Film: Kim Novak’s grey suit the colour of San Francisco fog in Vertigo, Grace Kelly as the too-perfect woman in Rear Window, and Janet Leigh’s black and white sets of underwear to…

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    Dressed to Serve: Costume in The Grand Budapest Hotel

    4 Jul ’14

    The Artist: Interview with Mark Bridges

    22 Nov ’11

    Review: The King’s Speech

    19 Jan ’11
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    The Birds: Tippi Hedren in the Green Suit

    7 Aug ’13 /

    Why does Tippi Hedren wear a green suit in The Birds, and what does it mean?

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    The Look of Love: Q&A with Costume Designer Stephanie Collie

    29 Aug ’13

    Belle de Jour: Sex and Alienation

    13 Oct ’09

    From Tailors with Love Podcast: Discussing the Tom Ford Look

    24 Jan ’20
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    Costume & Identity in Hitchcock’s Vertigo

    10 Apr ’12 /

    Edith Head’s costume design for Vertigo demonstrates the power of clothes in forming identities on-screen.

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    Grease: Olivia Newton-John is Squeaky Clean, Jellybean

    2 Apr ’10

    Shifting Trends: Claire Foy in First Man

    25 Oct ’18

    Rear Window: Grace Kelly’s Paris Dress

    5 May ’09
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    Hollywood Costume Exhibition Coming to V&A

    20 Jan ’12 /

    Hollywood costume comes to London’s Victoria & Albert Museum in the most exciting exhibition of its type ever announced.

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    Film Review: Toy Story 3

    23 Jul ’10

    Stoker: Colour the Narrative

    8 Nov ’13

    Saving Mr. Banks: Costume Design Featurette

    12 Dec ’13
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    To Catch a Thief: Grace Kelly’s Coral Top and Skirt

    21 May ’11 /

    This coral pink ensemble encompasses and challenges the absolute femininity of Grace Kelly.

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    Costuming The Dressmaker

    9 Nov ’15

    Carice van Houten in Black Book: The Red Dress

    21 Sep ’10

    Captain America: Q&A with Costume Designer Anna B. Sheppard

    29 Jul ’11
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    To Catch a Thief: Grace Kelly’s Beach Wear

    5 Apr ’11 /

    This is the most fun and elaborate outfit Grace Kelly wears in To Catch a Thief.

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    Monica Bellucci as Malèna: Beauty, Black and Heels

    26 Aug ’11

    Get on Up: Sharen Davis Shares Costume Design Sketches

    9 Dec ’14

    Costuming Hitchcock: An Extract from Hitchcock’s Heroines by Caroline Young

    6 Jun ’18
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    Robert Cummings in Saboteur: Costume Judgement

    4 Jan ’11 /

    To be a saboteur you must surely dress like one.

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    Florence Foster Jenkins: Exclusive Costume Sketches

    4 May ’16

    Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were: Forties Meets Seventies

    16 May ’11

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    9 Nov ’15
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    The Tourist: Colleen Atwood Talks Exclusively About Costumes

    9 Dec ’10 /

    We asked Colleen Atwood a few questions about The Tourist’s lavish costume look.

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    Bombshell: Below the Belt

    17 Jan ’20

    Review: Drive

    13 Sep ’11

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    27 Feb ’12
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    Edith Head Sketches for Grace Kelly Costumes to be Auctioned

    11 Nov ’10 /

    Christie’s are auctioning several Edith Head sketches for costume designs worn by Grace Kelly.

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    Katie Holmes in The Kennedys: Armani’s Copy of a Copy

    5 Aug ’11

    New Shutter Island Trailer Debuts: Serious Fifties Costumes

    3 Oct ’09

    Rear Window: Miss Lonelyheart’s Green Dress

    6 Nov ’09
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    Rear Window: Grace Kelly’s Green Suit

    1 Jun ’09 /

    While still alluring, as practically anything is on Grace Kelly, this is perhaps her least successful outfit overall from Rear Window (1954, as Lisa Fremont). The jacket seems slightly too long and loose for the slenderness of the skirt; it doesn’t fit Kelly’s figure as comfortably as it might. However even with its faults the suit still reflects a vital side of Lisa’s complex personality: her professional, tailored femininity.

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    The Iron Lady: Costume as Distinction, Gender and Protection

    4 May ’13

    Rear Window: Grace Kelly’s Paris Dress

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