sexuality | Clothes on Film

Journeying Into the Costumes of Into the Woods

9 Mar ’159 Mar ’15 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi

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[…]

Internal Affairs: A Black and White World

6 Dec ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1980s

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

10 Apr ’1230 Apr ’18 ContributorClothes from 1950s

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

8 Dec ’1111 Jan ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 2000-10

Playing computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, Noomi Rapace embodies the character in such a way that picturing anyone else in the role is nearly impossible.