Into the Woods opened on Broadway in 1987, with the music and lyrics written by Stephen Sondheim and the book by James Lapine. It is Sondheim’s most performed musical and one of his best known[…]
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Internal Affairs: A Black and White World
Internal Affairs (1990) is an excellent stone cold thriller. The costumes are a subtle tease, revealing personal information that the characters never say out loud. Like many movies released in the late 1980s/1990s, Internal Affairs[…]
Costume & Identity in Hitchcock’s Vertigo
Edith Head’s costume design for Vertigo demonstrates the power of clothes in forming identities on-screen.
Noomi Rapace in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Playing computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, Noomi Rapace embodies the character in such a way that picturing anyone else in the role is nearly impossible.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Full Costume Trailer
Rooney Mara’s Lisbeth will be a style icon.
Monica Bellucci as Malèna: Beauty, Black and Heels
In Malèna, Monica Bellucci plays an impossible vision of beauty; a woman so striking she is immediately sexualised by all who lay eyes on her.
Louise Bourgoin as Adèle Blanc-Sec: Feathers in Her Hat
Adèle Blanc-Sec’s world is akin to a fantasy Belle Époque; 1910s attire dotted among reanimated corpses and a dinosaur.
Norwegian Wood: Hipsters Unmaxed
Does Japanese period costume reflect on contemporary fashion? We appraise the hipster style of Norwegian Wood.