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    Superfly Solo

    18 Jun ’18 /

    MILD SPOILERS Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) is far and away the most ‘A New Hope-like’ film in the series yet. In terms of tone, sure, but particularly costume. What costume designers Glyn Dillon and David Crossman have so expertly achieved with Solo is making a contemporary looking movie set during the late 1960s. Star Wars: A New Hope was released in 1977 which puts Solo’s timeline around a decade before, or likely just over. But hang on, isn’t this a science fiction movie? What does when it’s made have to do with the space opera world being brought to life on screen? Well the seventies in particular was…

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    Prince of Persia: Interview With Costume Designer Penny Rose

    7 May ’10

    Steamy Sucker Punch Trailer Hits

    5 Nov ’10

    Scott Pilgrim vs The World Trailer Arrives on Fire

    25 Mar ’10
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    Long and Lean: The Silhouette of High Rise

    15 Apr ’16 /

    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 sci-fi author J.G. Ballard, homogeny is everything. In fact homogeny is terrifying. Everything is reflected in the aesthetic. The building towers, Tom Hiddleston’s trouser legs tower, and Luke Evans towers over everyone.  Director Ben Wheatley has claimed that he did not want High Rise to look like a ‘greatest hits of the seventies‘, but really that’s exactly what he’s got, certainly in terms of costume design – and that’s okay. It might not be the…

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    Win a Grease Sing-a-Long Goodie Bag!

    16 Sep ’10

    Dual Analysis: The Big Lebowski – KB’s Thoughts

    7 Jun ’10

    Boogie Nights Costume: Dirty Time

    11 Nov ’11
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    Grace Slick Wears Woodstock

    28 Oct ’14 /

    “We are stardust, we are golden”, sang Joni Mitchell of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, held August 15-18th 1969, at a dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York. The irony was, she wasn’t even there. A further irony follows in that whilst a myriad of psychedelic colours are synonymous with the Woodstock nation, one of the most revered choices of dress, clearly shown in the documentary Woodstock (1970) is a simple white leather fringed lace-up tunic-style vest and bell bottom trousers. It is worn by one of the first female rock stars, the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane,…

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    Dual Analysis: Rosemary’s Baby – KB’s Thoughts

    8 Jan ’10

    Meg Ryan in Proof of Life: Hopeless Hippie

    11 Jan ’11

    The Suits of Lee Marvin in Point Blank (1967)

    2 Sep ’19
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    Argo: Interview with Costume Designer Jacqueline West

    16 Feb ’13 /

    Costume designer Jacqueline West talks exclusively to Clothes on Film about her period recreation work on Ben Affleck’s Oscar favourite Argo.

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    Behind the Candelabra: Wearing Liberace On Stage and Off

    31 May ’13

    From Bum to Italian Stallion: Sylvester Stallone as Rocky

    22 Apr ’14

    The Warriors: Leather Vest

    17 May ’09
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    Boogie Nights Costume: Dirty Time

    11 Nov ’11 /

    Mark Bridges exclusively explains his costume choices for retro epic Boogie Nights.

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    Film Review: The Lovely Bones

    20 Feb ’10

    Dual Analysis: Saturday Night Fever

    10 Aug ’09

    The Costuming of Joaquin Phoenix in Joker

    14 Oct ’19
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    Catherine Deneuve in Potiche: Still Belle

    10 Oct ’11 /

    Potiche confirms that Catherine Deneuve will always be Belle de Jour, only now with added sense of humour.

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    The Passenger: Always at Odds

    2 Nov ’17

    The Little Drummer Girl: A Colourful Pretence

    14 Dec ’18

    Live and Let Die: Jane Seymour’s Maxi Dresses

    1 Sep ’09
  • Clothes from 1970s,  Film Reviews,  Guys in Films,  Guys on TV

    Review: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    5 Sep ’11 /

    A classy, very British affair.

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    The Post Trailer Debuts: Ann Roth sets the Tone

    8 Nov ’17

    The Box Website Goes Live: Creepy Seventies

    10 Oct ’09

    The Parallax View: Warren Beatty Rebels in Denim

    2 Nov ’10
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    Michael Caine in Get Carter: Killer Suit

    22 Jul ’11 /

    Michael Caine created Jack Carter, yet his immaculate blue mohair suit was more than a little responsible for creating the myth.

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    Dual Analysis: The Big Lebowski – KB’s Thoughts

    7 Jun ’10

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

    1 Sep ’11

    Deena Appel on the Costume Design of Austin Powers: Goldmember

    9 Oct ’18
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    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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    Troop Zero: It’s Birdie Time

    20 Jan ’20

    Brigbsy Bear: Interview with Costume Designer Sarah Mae Burton

    14 Aug ’17

    Ken Takakura Wearing Levi in The Yakuza (1974)

    27 Apr ’18
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    Review: Norwegian Wood

    27 May ’11 /

    Beautiful and affecting, even if it does collapse under the weight of its own earnestness at times.

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    2001 and Hardy Amies: When Fashion and Film Collide

    21 Dec ’12

    Michael Caine in The Italian Job: Part 2

    20 Feb ’14

    Black Caesar: Blaxploitation Gangster

    1 Nov ’13
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    Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were: Forties Meets Seventies

    16 May ’11 /

    Throughout The Way We Were, Barbra Streisand wears a mix of period authenticity and contemporary fashion.

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    Costuming Hitchcock: An Extract from Hitchcock’s Heroines by Caroline Young

    6 Jun ’18

    Carice van Houten in Black Book: The Red Dress

    21 Sep ’10

    Captain America: Q&A with Costume Designer Anna B. Sheppard

    29 Jul ’11
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    Meg Ryan in Proof of Life: Hopeless Hippie

    11 Jan ’11 /

    On Meg Ryan's character Alice, hippie seems like a passing trend rather than a lifestyle choice.

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    Costume Designer Theadora Van Runkle Dies Aged 83

    8 Nov ’11

    Norwegian Wood: Hipsters Unmaxed

    8 Jul ’11

    Legend: Interview with Costume Designer Caroline Harris

    25 Sep ’15
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