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  • Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    A Peep inside Amber Jane Butchart’s Fashion Miscellany

    10 Feb ’14 /

    Recently we were fortunate enough to get our hands on Amber Jane Butchart’s new book, her ‘Fashion Miscellany’, which has just been published by The IIex Press. If you don’t already know, Amber is a contributor to Clothes on Film and will soon be teaming up with editor Christopher Laverty for an evening of Jazz Era discussion at the British Library. Her book, by the way, is flippin’ brilliant. If you care even slightly about what we wear and why, AJBFM is an indispensable purchase. The layout of it is simple enough. It’s basically designed as a dip-in-and-out for research, or whenever you fancy a flick though. We’d call this…

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  • Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News

    FilmCraft: Costume Design – A New Book by Deborah Nadoolman Landis

    25 Jun ’12 /

    Not the only book you should buy about costume design, but probably the best.

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  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Clothes from now,  Film Reviews,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films

    Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes

    15 Aug ’11 /

    Gripping entertainment with subtext on everything from ethnicity to hierarchal costume.

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  • Clothes from 1960s,  Film Reviews,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films

    Review: Norwegian Wood

    27 May ’11 /

    Beautiful and affecting, even if it does collapse under the weight of its own earnestness at times.

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  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Film Reviews,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films

    Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

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    Jack Sparrow has finally become the irritating wiseass who just won't leave the party.

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  • Clothes from now,  Film Reviews

    Review: Black Swan

    21 Jan ’11 /

    A ferocious work from a filmmaker at the height of his game, Black Swan is an incredibly satisfying piece of cinema.

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