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  • Clothes from 1960s,  Clothes from now,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News

    Skyfall Teaser Trailer Hits: Provocative

    21 May ’12 /

    The first trailer for Skyfall hits with several suits, an overcoat, sportswear and a beanie.

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    Goldfinger: Sean Connery in a Towelling Playsuit

    29 Mar ’11

    Two For the Road: Audrey Hepburn’s outfits – Part 2

    30 Jun ’09

    Brighton Rock and Mod: Trailer Hits

    24 Nov ’10
  • Clothes from 1950s,  Girls in Films

    Costume & Identity in Hitchcock’s Vertigo

    10 Apr ’12 /

    Edith Head’s costume design for Vertigo demonstrates the power of clothes in forming identities on-screen.

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    The Iron Lady: Costume as Distinction, Gender and Protection

    4 May ’13

    North by Northwest: Cary Grant’s Kilgour Suit

    13 May ’09

    Rear Window: Grace Kelly in Jeans

    8 Jul ’09
  • Clothes from 1930s,  Clothes from 1990s,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    The Secret Sharer: Abbie Cornish & Andrea Riseborough in W.E.

    20 Mar ’12 /

    The glamorous look of the mid-1930s threads its way through dual love stories in W.E.

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    The Artist: Interview with Mark Bridges

    22 Nov ’11

    Trailer for Amelia Touches Down: Radical Fashions 1920s-30s

    26 Jun ’09

    Top Hat: Ginger Rogers’ Ostrich Feather Dress

    11 Aug ’10
  • Clothes from now,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    Crazy, Stupid, Love: Suits and 407s

    27 Jan ’12 /

    Crazy, Stupid Love is every inch the ‘fashion film’, both in terms of narrative and costume designer Dayna Pink’s elegant menswear styling.

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    Short Film Costume: Ashes, Inside the Captive Mind

    24 Jul ’13

    Black Swan Images = Costume Heaven

    23 Oct ’10

    Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of Just About Everyone)

    10 Feb ’20
  • Clothes from 1970s,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News

    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Dressed Trailer

    1 Jul ’11 /

    Looking so sexy that the finished film can be nothing but a huge disappointment, this teaser for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ticks all the right 70’s boxes.

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    Win a Grease Sing-a-Long Goodie Bag!

    16 Sep ’10

    Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were: Forties Meets Seventies

    16 May ’11

    Meryl Streep in Costume for The Iron Lady Trailer

    7 Jul ’11
  • Clothes from 1960s,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    Goldfinger: Sean Connery in a Towelling Playsuit

    29 Mar ’11 /

    The blue towelling playsuit in Goldfinger is typically remembered as Bond’s one sartorial disaster. Yet it might be worthy of reconsideration.

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    Janie Bryant Talks Mad Men Season 4: “Glitzy, not so glitzy”

    1 Jul ’10

    How to Steal a Million, or £60k for an Audrey Givenchy

    9 Dec ’09

    Blaxploitation Dress Codes in 1970s Cinema

    20 Sep ’13