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[…]
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Long and Lean: The Silhouette of High Rise
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[…]
Grace Slick Wears Woodstock
“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[…]
Argo: Interview with Costume Designer Jacqueline West
Costume designer Jacqueline West talks exclusively to Clothes on Film about her period recreation work on Ben Affleck’s Oscar favourite Argo.
Boogie Nights Costume: Dirty Time
Mark Bridges exclusively explains his costume choices for retro epic Boogie Nights.
Catherine Deneuve in Potiche: Still Belle
Potiche confirms that Catherine Deneuve will always be Belle de Jour, only now with added sense of humour.
Review: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
A classy, very British affair.
Michael Caine in Get Carter: Killer Suit
Michael Caine created Jack Carter, yet his immaculate blue mohair suit was more than a little responsible for creating the myth.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Dressed Trailer
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.
Review: Norwegian Wood
Beautiful and affecting, even if it does collapse under the weight of its own earnestness at times.
Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were: Forties Meets Seventies
Throughout The Way We Were, Barbra Streisand wears a mix of period authenticity and contemporary fashion.
Meg Ryan in Proof of Life: Hopeless Hippie
On Meg Ryan’s character Alice, hippie seems like a passing trend rather than a lifestyle choice.