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    Short Film Costume: Ashes, Inside the Captive Mind

    24 Jul ’13 /

    Costume design and meaning in short film.

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    Captain America: The First Trailer

    24 Mar ’11

    Black Swan Images = Costume Heaven

    23 Oct ’10

    The Dark Knight Rises: Costume Q&A with Lindy Hemming

    1 Aug ’12
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    Review: The Woman in Black

    10 Feb ’12 /

    Proving that frock coats and heavy lace dresses really are terrifying.

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    The Young Victoria: Costume Designer Interview

    14 Jan ’10

    Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Costume Round Up: Part 1

    22 Jun ’12

    Django Unchained: Tarantino’s First Costume Oscar?

    23 Oct ’12
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    Louise Bourgoin as Adèle Blanc-Sec: Feathers in Her Hat

    12 Aug ’11 /

    Adèle Blanc-Sec’s world is akin to a fantasy Belle Époque; 1910s attire dotted among reanimated corpses and a dinosaur.

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    Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Costume Round Up: Part 2

    9 Jul ’12

    Lucinda Wright on Costume in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

    2 Jul ’13

    Recreating the Levi’s Spring Bottom Pants Advert from 1905

    4 Jun ’14
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    Kate Winslet in Mildred Pierce: Sex and the Housedress

    1 Jul ’11 /

    A prevalent theme in the first episode of Mildred Pierce starring is how domestic costume can be read as a signal for sexual availability.

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    The Artist: Interview with Mark Bridges

    22 Nov ’11

    Mildred Pierce: Uniform Appeal

    1 Dec ’11

    Trailer for Amelia Touches Down: Radical Fashions 1920s-30s

    26 Jun ’09
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    Diana Rigg in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: To Die For

    24 Jun ’11 /

    As TracyDi Vicenzo in OHMSS, Diana Rigg wore a daring 1960s wedding ensemble.

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    Two For the Road: Audrey Hepburn’s outfits – Part 1

    8 Jun ’09

    From Tailors with Love Podcast: Discussing the Tom Ford Look

    24 Jan ’20

    Review: Moonrise Kingdom

    29 May ’12
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    The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Costume Q&A with Lucinda Wright

    3 Jun ’11 /

    Lucinda Wright talks to Clothes on Film about her contribution to The Suspicions of Mr Whicher starring Paddy Considine.

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    Sleepy Hollow: Q&A with Costume Designer Kristin M. Burke

    4 Feb ’14

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

    19 May ’09

    Sherlock Holmes Costume Guide Part 1: Frock Coats & Bustles

    17 May ’10
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    Changeling: Angelina Jolie’s Fur Trimmed Coat

    5 May ’10 /

    Angelina Jolie suits the unstructured dresses and cloche hats in Changeling perfectly.

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    The Fortune: Costume Guide – Dressing Soft For Murder

    19 Jan ’10

    Dress like a Peaky Blinder

    13 Sep ’13

    Martin/Prada Great Gatsby Collaboration: Fashion as Costume?

    22 Jan ’13