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A Look a the Style of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

9 Sep ’199 Sep ’19 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1960s

A brief video dip into the costume design of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

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The Little Drummer Girl: A Colourful Pretence

14 Dec ’1830 Mar ’19 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1970s

SPOILERS THROUGHOUT Having recently finished a six week, six episode run on the BBC, John le Carré adapted spy drama The Little Drummer Girl was divisive in terms of audience reaction. Some found the plot[…]

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A Star is Born: The Cotton Rebel

12 Oct ’18 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from now

MINOR SPOILERS For all the inevitable chrysalis transformation of singer Ally (Lady Gaga) during A Star is Born (2018, directed by Bradley Cooper), the most subtle, yet real sartorial reflection of character belongs to her[…]

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Ken Takakura Wearing Levi in The Yakuza (1974)

27 Apr ’1827 Apr ’18 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1970s

The Levi jacket worn by Ken Takakura as Ken Tanaka in Japan set thriller The Yakuza (1974, costume design by Dorothy Jeakins) is not Japanese denim. It was not made in Japan but is nonetheless[…]

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Long and Lean: The Silhouette of High Rise

15 Apr ’1629 Apr ’16 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1970s

Or when your costumes look like a building. Odile Dicks-Mireaux’s designs for High Rise (2016) are far more than that. But for a film set in such a heavily stylised world, especially one created by[…]

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Internal Affairs: A Black and White World

6 Dec ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1980s

Internal Affairs (1990) is an excellent stone cold thriller. The costumes are a subtle tease, revealing personal information that the characters never say out loud. Like many movies released in the late 1980s/1990s, Internal Affairs[…]

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Sons of Anarchy: Identity and the Outlaw: Women of SAMCRO

19 Sep ’1415 Oct ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyGirls on TV

Part two of our essay looking at sartorial identity in Sons of Anarchy, featuring exclusive insight from series costume designer Kelli Jones. Catch up with part 1 HERE. The women of SAMCRO include porn stars[…]

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Sons of Anarchy: Costume Identity and the Outlaw

15 Sep ’1415 Oct ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from now

Sons of Anarchy portrays the fictionalised world of an outlaw motorcycle club; although the plots are dramatic in the extreme, many of the details are firmly based in realism, including the costuming. Series creator Kurt[…]

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Recreating the Levi’s Spring Bottom Pants Advert from 1905

4 Jun ’146 Jun ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1837-1919

Levi’s® Spring Bottom pants are a most fascinating garment. Introduced in 1889 they are essentially jean trousers intended for Victorian (and later Edwardian) gentlemen. This is the first time Levi’s had focused their products on[…]

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Suit Yourself: Elliot Gould in The Long Goodbye

12 Dec ’1311 Jan ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1970s

Newly released on collectable Blu-ray, The Long Goodbye (1973, directed by Robert Altman) is the kind of film you feel ashamed for not watching more often. Starring Elliot Gould as Raymond Chandler’s pulp private dick[…]

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Realism through Identity: Clothing in The Last of Us

30 Nov ’1311 Jan ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi

If you have played The Last of Us on Playstation 3 it has likely ruined video gaming for you. The world created is so vivid and believable that every game afterward just feels dated and[…]

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Working Girl: The Culture of Power Dressing

27 Sep ’139 Jul ’18 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1980s

Costume designer Ann Roth’s template for Working Girl (1988, directed by Mike Nichols) is especially astute with regards to the social and geographical make up of its characters. Protagonist Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is a[…]

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