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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 shoot-out inside a disused factory, … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 such an audience. Previously their … Continue reading
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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 film. T-shirts “Kiss me I’m … Continue reading
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Enjoyably daft fare with enough fast cars and desirable clobber to keep you cooing until the credits. Continue reading
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Beautiful and affecting, even if it does collapse under the weight of its own earnestness at times. Continue reading
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Sherlock Holmes 2 costume designer Jenny Beavan chats exclusively to Clothes on Film about what to expect in the finished film. Continue reading
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Jackson Pollock spawned a thousand imitators in the art world when he chose to work in denim jeans. Continue reading
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Denim legitimises Warren Beatty’s character as a man capable of more than posing. Continue reading
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Costume designer Carloine Harris has recreates the vibrant look of the 1970s. Continue reading
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Shocking, but not really considering all the legal wrangling going on recently, Bond 23 has been shelved “indefinitely”. Continue reading