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

    6 Jun ’18 /

    Author Caroline Young has just released a fascinating new book entitled Hitchcock’s Heroines (published by Insight Editions). It celebrates and studies the women in Hitchcock movies; their influence, semblance and iconography. What’s more, Young also examines the role costume design plays with these women, both the characters and the actresses who played them, and how they can be interpreted as far more than just ‘icy blondes’. Here we have an extract of the book exclusively for Clothes on Film: Kim Novak’s grey suit the colour of San Francisco fog in Vertigo, Grace Kelly as the too-perfect woman in Rear Window, and Janet Leigh’s black and white sets of underwear to…

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    Water for Elephants: Latest Trailer and Stills

    18 Mar ’11

    Mildred Pierce: Uniform Appeal

    1 Dec ’11

    Puttin’ on the Glitz: An Upcoming Fashion and Film Event

    12 Mar ’14
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    Debbie Reynolds Costume Auction: Marilyn Goes for $4.6 Million!

    20 Jun ’11 /

    $ 4,600,000 for Marilyn Monroe’s ‘subway’ dress was only just one mega bid of many.

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    The Young Victoria: Costume Designer Interview

    14 Jan ’10

    Lawless: Interview with Costume Designer Margot Wilson

    27 Sep ’12

    Costume Round Up: Villains

    6 Apr ’13
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    To Catch a Thief: Grace Kelly’s Coral Top and Skirt

    21 May ’11 /

    This coral pink ensemble encompasses and challenges the absolute femininity of Grace Kelly.

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    Gangster Squad: Gangster Gloss

    28 Jan ’13

    Atonement: Keira Knightley’s Green Dress

    23 Jun ’09

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

    29 Jul ’11
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    National Treasure 2: Diane Kruger’s Costume Quest

    26 Apr ’11 /

    Judianna Makovsky demonstrates that contemporary fashion with a plot is far more fun than a flick through Vogue.

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    The Hangover 2 Image Debuts: More Costume Wackiness to Come

    29 Nov ’10

    Hannibal: Exclusive Interview with Janty Yates

    12 Jun ’09

    Win a Breaking Bad Mobile Lab T-shirt

    5 Jun ’13
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    To Catch a Thief: Grace Kelly’s Beach Wear

    5 Apr ’11 /

    This is the most fun and elaborate outfit Grace Kelly wears in To Catch a Thief.

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    Dunkirk: Interview with Costume Designer Jeffrey Kurland

    31 Jul ’17

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

    6 Jun ’18

    Monica Bellucci as Malèna: Beauty, Black and Heels

    26 Aug ’11
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    To Catch a Thief: Grace Kelly in Blue Chiffon

    2 Mar ’11 /

    As worn by Grace Kelly, this floaty, conspicuous dress is an appreciable nod to Dior’s ‘New Look’ of the late 1940s.

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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

    Cinema Paradiso: Invisible Costume

    9 Feb ’15
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    Edith Head Sketches for Grace Kelly Costumes to be Auctioned

    11 Nov ’10 /

    Christie’s are auctioning several Edith Head sketches for costume designs worn by Grace Kelly.

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    To Catch a Thief: Grace Kelly’s Beach Wear

    5 Apr ’11

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

    6 Jun ’18

    Grease: Annette Cardona as Cha-Cha

    10 Nov ’09
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    Clothes on Film Visit the V&A Grace Kelly Exhibition

    12 May ’10 /

    Last week Clothes on Film visited the Grace Kelly: Style Icon exhibition. This is what we found out.

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

    29 Jul ’11

    First Trailer for Sherlock Holmes Online – No Deerstalker! No Mac Farlane!

    19 May ’09

    True Grit: Full Trailer Moseys Along

    5 Oct ’10
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    Grace Kelly Exhibition Opens at the V&A

    17 Apr ’10 /

    The V&A in London is hosting an exhibition of dresses and accessories once belonging to Grace Kelly.

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    Grease: The ‘Pink Ladies’ Wear it Well

    22 Sep ’09

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    25 May ’10

    Prada Provided Carey Mulligan’s Gowns for The Great Gatsby

    23 Aug ’12
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    Rear Window: Miss Lonelyheart’s Green Dress

    6 Nov ’09 /

    Of course Rear Window wasn't all about Grace Kelly...

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    Grease: Olivia Newton-John is Squeaky Clean, Jellybean

    2 Apr ’10

    Colleen Goes Contemporary: First Official Pic from The Tourist

    14 Jun ’10

    Phantom Thread: An Insight into Autism and Relationships

    23 Mar ’18
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    Rear Window: Grace Kelly’s Paris Dress

    5 May ’09 /

    This might be the most famous and copied outfit Grace Kelly ever wore.

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    Rebel Without a Cause: James Dean in Denim

    1 Jul ’10

    Costume & Identity in Hitchcock’s Vertigo

    10 Apr ’12

    The Iron Lady: Costume as Distinction, Gender and Protection

    4 May ’13