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    About Time to Dress Upper Middle Class

    9 May ’14 /

    SPOILERS Despite all the hoo-ha over films such as Blue Jasmine and Stoker contemporary is still pretty much overlooked as a form of costume design. If it’s invisible, well, nobody notices it, and if it’s designer it becomes all about ‘the fashion’ (OMG TOTES WANT THOSE SHOES). We are currently in an age when costume design means period and sci-fi. It comes to the extent that if a costumer wants to tell a story through contemporary attire, he/she needs either a director with a key grasp of semiotics, or one that doesn’t care less about semiotics and offers a degree of autonomy. Watching About Time we presume that Richard Curtis…

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    Favourite Fashions From Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

    4 Oct ’10 /

    Less a costume movie and more a fashion one, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is typical of its naughty director Russ Meyer in all the best ways.

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    Rosemary’s Baby: Mia Farrow’s Red Trouser Suit

    18 May ’09 /

    Rosemary's Baby is the perfect mid-sixties set fashion movie.

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