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    Ocean’s 8: Fashioning Costume

    10 Jul ’18 /

    MINOR SPOILERS Movies that feature contemporary fashion, particularly high-end and particularly for women, are a tricky sell costume wise. While men’s semi-formal to formal attire is generally shaped around the fundamental guise of the lounge suit, women’s clothing has a lot more avenues and possibilities. In addition to colour and pattern there is shape and form, which can vary dramatically for the fashionable wearer. What can vary dramatically can also date dramatically and this can be major stumbling block for costume designers. Films centred around the world of fashion, or those that include a lot of fashionable garments such as The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Clueless (1995) and Funny Face…

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    Meg Ryan in Proof of Life: Hopeless Hippie

    11 Jan ’11

    The Dark Knight Rises: Costume Q&A with Lindy Hemming

    1 Aug ’12

    Midnight in Paris: Nostalgia Fashion

    3 Feb ’12
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    The Intern: Jacqueline Oknaian Costume Interview

    2 Oct ’15 /

    Jacqueline Oknaian has costumed Ugly Betty (2008-10), Sex and the City 2 (2010) and The Big C (2012-13), so it might be fair to say contemporary clothing is her forte. For The Intern she dressed Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro in that most tricky of cinematic costume: ‘office attire’. Fashion and practicality collide in what needs to be stylish but relatable clothing inside a believable setting. Here Ms Oknaian chats exclusively about her work on the film. Anne Hathaway has the perfect office wardrobe, where did you get your inspiration for her smart, but chic looks? I related to her character personally because I’m a mother and I’ve worked…

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    A Star is Born: The Cotton Rebel

    12 Oct ’18

    Bombshell: Below the Belt

    17 Jan ’20

    Hanna: Interview with Costume Designer Lucie Bates

    29 Aug ’11
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    CDG Award Nominations Are In: Hmm…

    17 Jan ’13 /

    The Costume Designers Guild Award nominations right some wrongs and ignore quite a few others.

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    Winter’s Bone: Rebecca Hofherr Interview

    12 Jan ’12

    Review: Lincoln

    1 Feb ’13

    New Paranormal Activity 2 Clip: Ordinary is Scary

    20 Oct ’10
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    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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    Review: Jane Eyre at Haddon Hall

    9 Sep ’11

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

    5 May ’09

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

    19 May ’09
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    The Dark Knight Rises: Costume Q&A with Lindy Hemming

    1 Aug ’12 /

    Costume Designer Lindy Hemming talks exclusively to Clothes on Film about her work on The Dark Knight Rises.

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    Woman Inherits the Earth: Femininity in Jurassic World

    19 Jun ’15

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    30 Jan ’12
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    Review: The Dark Knight Rises

    21 Jul ’12 /

    Christopher Nolan once again shows his appreciation for costume in this immensely satisfying end to the Dark Knight trilogy.

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    Become The Babadook

    28 Oct ’14

    Tron Legacy: Light Suit Costume – Part 2

    16 Nov ’10

    Full Alice in Wonderland Trailer Hits: Potty But Pretty

    16 Dec ’09
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    First Official Pic: Anne Hathaway as Catwoman

    5 Aug ’11 /

    Somewhat misleading as nowhere is this pic officially tagged as being ‘Catwoman’; officially this is our first shot of Anne Hathway as Selina Kyle.

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    Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

    19 May ’11

    Ghostbusters: Sigourney Weaver’s Cape Coat

    15 Sep ’09

    Eiko Ishioka Costumes for Mirror, Mirror Immortalised with App

    15 Mar ’12