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  • Clothes from 1837-1919,  Guys in Films

    The Lighthouse: All Hail a High Waist Trouser

    4 Feb ’20 /

    The higher the waist, the closer to god.

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    Sherlock Holmes Costume Guide Part 2: Tweed Suits and Ulsters

    20 May ’10

    Sherlock Holmes 2: Q&A With Costume Designer Jenny Beavan

    4 May ’11
  • Clothes from 1970s,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    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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    16 May ’11

    The Conjuring Trailer: Lapels That Flap in the Night

    3 Apr ’13

    X-Men: Days of Future Past Pics – 1973 Xavier, Hank & Logan

    10 May ’13