Michael Kaplan Archives - Clothes on Film

The Alienist: Costume Featurette Provides Glimpse into Gilded Style

26 Apr ’18 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1837-1919

Netflix have released a short featurette about costume design for The Alienist, giving an overall glimpse at the work of Michael Kaplan and his team in putting together the era of 1896, New York. What[…]

The Last Jedi: Interview with Costume Designer Michael Kaplan

24 Dec ’1724 Dec ’17 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi

MINOR SPOILERS There are already lots of good interviews with Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) costume designer Michael Kaplan on the internet (we recommend this one in particular), so for Clothes on Film we[…]

Star Wars: Interview with Michael Kaplan

22 Jan ’16 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi

Surely we all know Michael Kaplan by now? Flashdance (1983), Fight Club (1999), Burlesque (2010), Star Trek (2009), and the biggest of the big, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Versatile is not a generous enough[…]

Star Wars Episode VII: The Costumes Awaken

21 Dec ’15 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi

SPOILERS Ahead of a detailed interview with Star Wars: The Force Awakens costume designer Michael Kaplan (currently hard at work on Episode VIII), we take a brief look at his undeniable achievement in bringing the[…]

Four Slices of Costume Pie from the Star Wars VII Trailer

28 Nov ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi

There is little point in Clothes on Film delving too deeply into the first trailer for director J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars sequel The Force Awakens, mainly because it is just so much speculation at the[…]

Style Icon of the Season: Cousin Eddie in Christmas Vacation

18 Dec ’1311 Jan ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1970s

He is the whitest of the white trash, the kind of man who dumps raw sewage in a storm drain and kidnaps your boss as a Christmas present. And the only man to ever combine[…]

The Catwalk of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

15 Nov ’1311 Jan ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi

When you are costuming the biggest franchise release of the year and creating a capsule range to run alongside it for a major online retailer, it is clear a normal approach to the task is[…]