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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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    Eiko Ishioka Costumes for Mirror, Mirror Immortalised with App

    15 Mar ’12

    The Martian: The Perfect 10 Spacesuit

    6 Oct ’15

    Man of Steel: New Featurette Discusses the Superman Suit

    3 Jun ’13
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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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    The Conjuring 2: Costume Q&A with Kristin Burke

    19 Jul ’16

    The Passenger: Always at Odds

    2 Nov ’17

    Meryl Streep in Costume for The Iron Lady Trailer

    7 Jul ’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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    Black Caesar: Blaxploitation Gangster

    1 Nov ’13

    Review: Breakfast at Tiffany’s

    8 Dec ’09

    Art of Rosemary’s Baby

    7 Mar ’11
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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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    Mr Nice starring Rhys Ifans: Lots of Nice Photos

    14 Aug ’10

    Kramer vs. Kramer: Meryl Streep in a Burberry Trench Coat

    21 Mar ’13

    Deena Appel on the Costume Design of Austin Powers: Goldmember

    9 Oct ’18
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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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    Live and Let Die: Jane Seymour’s Maxi Dresses

    1 Sep ’09

    From Tailors with Love Podcast: Discussing the Tom Ford Look

    24 Jan ’20

    The Conjuring Trailer: Lapels That Flap in the Night

    3 Apr ’13
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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 Conjuring Trailer: Lapels That Flap in the Night

    3 Apr ’13

    Style Icon of the Season: Cousin Eddie in Christmas Vacation

    18 Dec ’13

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

    1 Sep ’11
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    Review: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    5 Sep ’11 /

    A classy, very British affair.

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    Stockard Channing’s Yellow Dress in The Girl Most Likely To

    23 Nov ’10

    The Look of Love: Q&A with Costume Designer Stephanie Collie

    29 Aug ’13

    Win a Grease Sing-a-Long Goodie Bag!

    16 Sep ’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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    Win a Grease Sing-a-Long Goodie Bag!

    16 Sep ’10

    Dual Analysis: The Big Lebowski – KB’s Thoughts

    7 Jun ’10

    Rush Trailer: Olivia Wilde Looks Sensational in 70’s Costume

    26 Apr ’13
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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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    The Royal Tenenbaums: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Tennis Dress

    1 Feb ’10

    Live and Let Die: Jane Seymour’s Maxi Dresses

    1 Sep ’09

    Film Review: The Lovely Bones

    20 Feb ’10
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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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    Meg Ryan in Proof of Life: Hopeless Hippie

    11 Jan ’11

    Norwegian Wood: Hipsters Unmaxed

    8 Jul ’11

    X-Men: First Class Costumes

    20 Jan ’11
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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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    The Star Wattage of Mildred Pierce (1945)

    6 Mar ’17

    The Maltese Falcon: The Shirts That Dreams Are Made Of

    23 Sep ’19

    A Colourful Tale: The Costume Canvas of Dick Tracy

    27 Feb ’15
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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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    Mad Men: Christina Hendricks’ Op Art Blue Dress (S1)

    11 May ’09

    Deena Appel on the Costume Design of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

    25 Sep ’18

    Get on Up: Sharen Davis Shares Costume Design Sketches

    9 Dec ’14
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