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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 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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Bridesmaids Q&A: Comedy Costume
With exclusive insight from Leesa Evans, Clothes on Film takes an overview look at the art of comedic costume in Bridesmaids.
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CDG Awards: Black Swan Takes the Prize
Costume designer Amy Westcott has finally been rewarded for her work on Black Swan with a CDG Award.
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The Royal Tenenbaums: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Tennis Dress
Through Margot, Gwyneth Paltrow became a middle-class fashion icon.