The Levi jacket worn by Ken Takakura as Ken Tanaka in Japan set thriller The Yakuza (1974, costume design by Dorothy Jeakins) is not Japanese denim. It was not made in Japan but is nonetheless[…]
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Free Fire: Interview with Costume Designer Emma Fryer
MILD SPOILERS Director Ben Wheatley’s latest, Free Fire, is set in Boston, 1978, but was actually shot in Brighton in 2015. Being as the plot revolves around ten characters involved in a one hour plus[…]
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[…]
Recreating the Levi’s Spring Bottom Pants Advert from 1905
Levi’s® Spring Bottom pants are a most fascinating garment. Introduced in 1889 they are essentially jean trousers intended for Victorian (and later Edwardian) gentlemen. This is the first time Levi’s had focused their products on[…]
Costume Stories: This Week, The Butler and Evil Dead
A few of the week’s costume titbits. The Butler Costume designer Ruth Carter explains her work on The Butler. Honest, with lots of detail – absolutely worth a read. …and Oprah’s ‘fashion evolution’ in the[…]
Review: Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Enjoyably daft fare with enough fast cars and desirable clobber to keep you cooing until the credits.
Review: Norwegian Wood
Beautiful and affecting, even if it does collapse under the weight of its own earnestness at times.
Sherlock Holmes 2: Q&A With Costume Designer Jenny Beavan
Sherlock Holmes 2 costume designer Jenny Beavan chats exclusively to Clothes on Film about what to expect in the finished film.
Pollock: Ed Harris in Paint Splattered Denim
Jackson Pollock spawned a thousand imitators in the art world when he chose to work in denim jeans.
The Parallax View: Warren Beatty Rebels in Denim
Denim legitimises Warren Beatty’s character as a man capable of more than posing.
Mr Nice starring Rhys Ifans: Lots of Nice Photos
Costume designer Carloine Harris has recreates the vibrant look of the 1970s.
Bond 23 Not Gonna Happen. Not Yet Anyway
Shocking, but not really considering all the legal wrangling going on recently, Bond 23 has been shelved “indefinitely”.