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  • Clothes from now,  Girls in Films,  Premium

    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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    National Treasure 2: Diane Kruger’s Costume Quest

    26 Apr ’11

    Martin/Prada Great Gatsby Collaboration: Fashion as Costume?

    22 Jan ’13

    The Intern: Jacqueline Oknaian Costume Interview

    2 Oct ’15
  • 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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    Beauty and the Beast: Q&A with Jacqueline Durran

    12 Apr ’17

    Eiko Ishioka Has Died

    30 Jan ’12

    Star Wars: Interview with Michael Kaplan

    22 Jan ’16
  • Clothes from now,  Girls in Films,  Interviews

    Hanging by a Thread: Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine

    31 Jan ’14 /

    Suzy Benzinger, the costume designer of Blue Jasmine, chose iconic brands like Hermès, Louis Vuitton, and Missoni to serve as visual shorthand of what the modern-day wealthy socialite wears, but it is the white Chanel jacket that follows Jasmine from the beginning of the movie to the end which tells its own tale of what is happening to its owner. When we first see Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) she is flying first-class from New York to San Francisco to see her sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins). On the flight she dazzles a fellow passenger with the story of how she met her wealthy businessman husband Hal (Alec Baldwin). Or so she thinks.…

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    You’ve Got Red on You: Us and the Jumpsuit Question

    1 Apr ’19

    The Selfish Giant: Costume Design for Social Realist Drama

    25 Jul ’14

    Fantasy Reality: Catherine George on Costuming Okja

    14 Jul ’17
  • Costume Stories and Links,  Girls in Films

    Costume Stories: This Week, X-Men & Marathon Man

    31 Aug ’13 /

    Costumes! Read all about it! Fifty Shades of Grey Will Victoria Beckham be the film’s costume designer? Oh dear, we smell another Black Swan situation. X-Men: First Class Part two of Gavia Baker’s superb costume round up. This time: menswear. Gwen Russell The costume maker of Dangerous Liaisons (not the costume DESIGNER like this sloppy article states) – she lives in Croydon, don’t cha know? Camera Ready In development TV show by Syfy, where 10 costume designers compete to create works of sartorial art for film, TV and music videos. Blue Jasmine Insightful guide to Cate Blanchett’s terribly chic and expensive costumes. Marathon Man Mode Parade has something interesting to…

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    Costume Stories, This Week: Inside Llewyn Davis & Cinderella

    4 Jan ’14

    Costume Stories, This Week: Oscar and Hart of Dixie

    18 Jan ’14

    Costume Stories: This Week, The Vikings and Gatsby Again

    4 May ’13
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    Costume Stories: This Week, Blue Jasmine and Roman Holiday

    24 Aug ’13 /

    Tales from the costume crypt. The Talented Mr Ripley Remembering the stellar work of Ann Roth and Gary Jones. Blue Jasmine Costume designer Suzy Benzinger on budgets, Fendi and Cate Blanchett. The Butler Transformations…Ruth Carter discusses mimicking classic fashion designers such as Bill Blass to recreate Nancy Reagan (played by Jane Fonda). Jenn Rogien The Girls’ costume designer is now Gap’s official ‘styled by’ expert. Orange is the New Black More Miss Rogien, this time talking authenticity and maxi-pad shoes. Roman Holiday Just brilliant costume analysis of the film by DTSFT. Elysium A brief chat with costume designer April Ferry. Unsurprisingly, it was Jodie Foster who brought Armani on board.

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    Costume Stories: This Week, Catching Fire and Gatsby Again

    27 Apr ’13

    Costume Stories, This Week: Noah and Hannibal

    5 Apr ’14

    Costume Stories, This Week: Ray Donovan and Batman (1989)

    5 Jul ’14
  • Girls in Films,  Girls on TV,  Guys in Films,  Guys on TV,  Interviews,  Premium

    Clothes on Film’s 2011 Costume Design Round Up

    28 Dec ’11 /

    By no means intended as an exhaustive list, Clothes on Film ponder an overview of 2011 in costume.

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    Film Review: Alice In Wonderland

    5 Mar ’10

    Latest Trailer for The Great Gatsby: Fancy Clothes

    4 Apr ’13

    Prince of Persia: Firsthand Look at the Costumes

    11 Jun ’10
  • Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News,  Pre-Victorian

    Robin Hood: Costume Photo Fest

    29 Apr ’10 /

    Want another look at Janty Yates’ costume design for Robin Hood? Thought you might.

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    Wall Street 2 On-Set Photos Online

    11 Sep ’09

    FilmCraft: Costume Design – A New Book by Deborah Nadoolman Landis

    25 Jun ’12

    The Wolf of Wall Street Trailer: Expensive Bad Taste

    17 Jun ’13
  • Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News,  Pre-Victorian

    New Robin Hood Trailer: Fighting Talk

    11 Mar ’10 /

    The latest in a queue of trailers for Ridley Scott's version of Robin Hood has arrived. This one shows some basic plot too.

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    Ice Cold Movie Posters Inspired by Male Costume

    7 Oct ’10

    All About Bond: A Book of 007 Photographs By Terry O’Neill

    8 Oct ’12

    Costume Stories: This Week, X-Men & Marathon Man

    31 Aug ’13
  • Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News,  Pre-Victorian

    Robin Hood: Some Pics for the Weekend

    15 Jan ’10 /

    Make the day disappear faster by checking out some pics from Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett.

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    Lone Ranger & Judy Garland: Costume at the Smithsonian

    22 Dec ’09

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    1 Sep ’11

    Much Ado About Nothing: Colour Blind Costuming

    11 Jul ’13