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Get on Up: Sharen Davis Shares Costume Design Sketches
As Get on Up, director Tate Taylor’s look at the life of singing legend James Brown, hits UK screens we have some fantastic sketches to share of the film’s costuming. Costume designer for Get on Up is the one and only Sharen Davis, who previously worked with Taylor on The Help, although you may know her better for Devil in a Blue Dress, Dreamgirls, Ray and Django Unchained. Davis is absurdly talented and every single project she undertakes should be greeted with cheers by any costume fan. Get on Up with its collective of lowly, stage and civvie ensembles worn by Chadwick Boseman as adult James Joseph Brown (60+changes) is…
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12 Years a Slave Trailer: Fine Fabrics
Fabrics jump out of the screen in this trailer for 12 Years a Slave.
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Costume Stories: This Week, Much Ado and Superman
Costume links of the week.
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CDG Award Nominations Are In: Hmm…
The Costume Designers Guild Award nominations right some wrongs and ignore quite a few others.
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Oscar Nominations: At Least One Surprise
Oscar announces their Costume Design nominees and at least make up for one BAFTA shortfall.
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BAFTA Nominations: Guess the Line-Up
BAFTA Costume design nominations announced. Worthy, but no surprises.
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Sharen Davis Costume Interview: Django Unchained
Django Unchained costume designer Sharen Davis exclusively explains her work on the film.
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Django Unchained: Tarantino’s First Costume Oscar?
Could Django Unchained be the first Quentin Tarantino movie to win a Costume Design Oscar?
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Looper: Costume Designer Sharen Davis Reveals Inspiration
Costume Designer Sharen Davis talks us through her retro-vision for Looper.
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Review: Looper
A mishmash of sci-fi conventions and clichés cobbled together as something we have never quite seen before.
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FilmCraft: Costume Design – A New Book by Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Not the only book you should buy about costume design, but probably the best.