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

    5 Jul ’14 /

    Two weeks of catch up for you. Phillip Boutte Jr. This is something special. Tyranny of Style interview costume illustrator Phillip Boutte Jr. featuring some of his fabulous digital renderings from X-Men: Days of Future Past. Wonder Woman Apparently ‘exclusive’ costume details for the Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice movie, which is due April 2016. Wonder Woman will look ‘badass’. The Best Movie Sunglasses of ALL TIME So says Vogue. Penny Dreadful Brilliant look at the show’s costume design with insight from Gabriella Pescucci. Love the French impressionists inspiration. Clueless This is kinda cool – clothes retailer Metail have introduced a Cher style style wardrobe selector. We have the…

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    Costume Stories: This Week, Arrested Development & Star Wars

    25 May ’13

    Costume Stories, This Week: Thor: The Dark World and Reign

    26 Oct ’13

    Costume Stories: This Week, Clueless and The Newsroom

    22 Jul ’13
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    Costume Stories, This Week: The Oscars and House of Cards

    1 Mar ’14 /

    Costume’s big week. Every dress worn by Best Actress Academy Award Winners We featured this lovely infographic by Mediarun on our Facebook page. Roll on Sunday! Funny Face Good article on the classic film by Pamela Hutchinson, including a telling quote summing up just how little Audrey Hepburn really understood about costume design: “His (Givenchy) are the only clothes on which I am myself.” Bobi Garland Bobi Garland is Director of the Research Library and Costume Archive at Western Costume. You are about to find out why she is indispensible to the industry. Costume Designers Guild Awards Ladies and gentlemen, the winners. Toy Story An enthralling theory on the true…

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    Costume Stories: This Week, Downton Abbey & Breaking Bad

    28 Sep ’13

    Costume Stories, This Week: Thor: The Dark World and Reign

    26 Oct ’13

    Costume Stories, This Week: Bhanu Athaiya and Gotham

    10 May ’14
  • Clothes from 1980s,  Clothes from 1990s,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    Tailoring The Wolf of Wall Street

    7 Feb ’14 /

    There is a problem with the costumes in The Wolf of Wall Street, and it has nothing to do with the film itself but the coverage they have received. Namely, that this coverage is incorrect. Articles such as this one for Vogue France, or this for The Hollywood Reporter, or a ‘suit guide’ by Esquire, concentrate almost solely on Giorgio Armani’s contribution to the project with barely a mention of costume designer Sandy Powell. And this is the Sandy Powell by the way: 10 Oscar nominations and so well respected she has an OBE for services to the industry. It was Powell who costumed The Wolf of Wall Street, not…

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    Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan

    11 Mar ’11

    Win a Limited Edition Scarface Blu-Ray + Scarf & Money Clip

    1 Sep ’11

    Film Review: Dolores Claiborne

    6 Sep ’10
  • Costume Stories and Links

    Costume Stories, This Week: Inside Llewyn Davis & Cinderella

    4 Jan ’14 /

    Happy New Year everyone! Life Without Zoe, The Canyons Two well researched and well written posts by Superqueen. This site is always worth a scoot around. 12 Years a Slave Costume Designer Patricia Norris is 82 years young. Cancel your retirement. The Most Iconic Costumes of all Time Marilyn’s dress in The Seven Year Itch? No, frankly. Ellen Mirojnick The Costume Cafe podcast with a lady we adore here at Clothes on Film. Inside Llewyn Davis Frocktalk reviews the extraordinary ‘sweaterville’ work of Mary Zophres for the Coens’ latest. Michael Wilkinson For Guise magazine, Joe Kucharski chats to Michael Wilkinson about digital illustration in costume design. Big Screen Style Moments…

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    Costume Stories: This Week, Jobs and Tootsie

    13 Jul ’13

    Costume Stories, This Week: Inside Llewyn Davis & Mockingjay

    1 Feb ’14

    Costume Stories: This Week, Game of Thrones and Liberace

    11 May ’13
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    Top Costumes of the Year 2013

    28 Dec ’13 /

    What a busy twelve months it’s been for costume design. Really though, this art, or craft, or business (Deborah Nadoolman Landis insists it is definitely a business) gets more talked about each year. 2013 was especially exciting however as it seemed every month something even more thrilling arrived to fawn over. In the last few weeks alone we have had The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Sleepy Hollow, and now American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street on the horizon. Dipping back further, it was Stoker that got us excited about subtext, The Great Gatsby that slammed the lid on that twenties revival once and for all, and Behind…

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    Why is Miss Piggy Wearing a Vivienne Westwood Wedding Dress?

    11 Feb ’14

    Lovelace Trailer: Lovely Dresses

    9 Jul ’13

    Film Review: The Lovely Bones

    20 Feb ’10
  • Costume Stories and Links

    Costume Stories: This Week, Look of Love and Man of Steel

    22 Jun ’13 /

    The week’s costume stories and links.

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    Costume Round Up: Any Colour so long as it’s Black

    30 Mar ’13

    Costume Stories, This Week: GTA V and Halloween

    19 Oct ’13

    Costume Stories, This Week: The Oscars and House of Cards

    1 Mar ’14
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    Costume Stories: This Week, The Bling Ring and Anchorman

    8 Jun ’13 /

    Lots of exciting costume stories this week.

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    Costume Stories: This Week, Much Ado and Superman

    15 Jun ’13

    Costume Stories: This Week, Blue Jasmine and Roman Holiday

    24 Aug ’13

    Costume Stories, This Week: Wolf of Wall Street & Bruce Lee

    14 Dec ’13
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    Ellen Mirojnick Describes Costumes for Behind the Candelabra

    7 Jun ’13 /

    Alongside costume illustrations with fabric swatch, Ellen Mirojnick explains the stage wear worn by Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.

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    Win a Limited Edition Scarface Blu-Ray + Scarf & Money Clip

    1 Sep ’11

    Long and Lean: The Silhouette of High Rise

    15 Apr ’16

    Suit Yourself: Elliot Gould in The Long Goodbye

    12 Dec ’13
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    Behind the Candelabra: Wearing Liberace On Stage and Off

    31 May ’13 /

    Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick brings Liberace back to life on stage and off.

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    Michael Caine in Pulp

    22 Jun ’10

    The Conversation: Gene Hackman’s Raincoat

    13 Mar ’12

    Boogie Nights Costume: Dirty Time

    11 Nov ’11
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    Costume Stories: This Week, Arrested Development & Star Wars

    25 May ’13 /

    This week’s other costume design stories and links.

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    Costume Stories, This Week: The Grandmaster and Fleming

    22 Feb ’14

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

    31 Aug ’13

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

    5 Jul ’14
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    Costume Stories: This Week, Game of Thrones and Liberace

    11 May ’13 /

    Pick of the week’s movie and television costume design stories.

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    Costume Stories, This Week: Amy Adams & Sleepy Hollow

    25 Jan ’14

    Costume Stories, This Week: The Oscars and House of Cards

    1 Mar ’14

    Costume Stories: This Week, Diana & TIFF

    7 Sep ’13
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    Costume Round Up: Villains

    6 Apr ’13 /

    A round up of villain themed costume posts at Clothes on Film.

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    Costume Stories, This Week: Catching Fire and Downton Abbey

    9 Nov ’13

    Costume Stories: This Week, FIDM and Breaking Bad

    3 Aug ’13

    Costume Stories, This Week: Oscar and Hart of Dixie

    18 Jan ’14
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