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Get on Up: Sharen Davis Shares Costume Design Sketches
As Get on Up, director Tate Taylor’s look at the life of singing legend James Brown, hits UK screens we have some fantastic sketches to share of the film’s costuming. Costume designer for Get on Up is the one and only Sharen Davis, who previously worked with Taylor on The Help, although you may know her better for Devil in a Blue Dress, Dreamgirls, Ray and Django Unchained. Davis is absurdly talented and every single project she undertakes should be greeted with cheers by any costume fan. Get on Up with its collective of lowly, stage and civvie ensembles worn by Chadwick Boseman as adult James Joseph Brown (60+changes) is…
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Costume Stories, This Week: Indiana Jones and Godzilla
Catch up with the costume gossip you’ve missed. Godzilla “Contemporary in design with a multitude of uniforms”, says costume designer Sharen Davis. We remember chatting to Ms. Davis about her work on Godzilla during an interview for Django Unchained – she was so stoked to be working with director Gareth Edwards. X-Men: Days of Future Past Q&A with ace Louise Mingenbach which we haven’t read because we haven’t seen the movie yet. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom For the film’s 30th birthday an enticing look back at Anthony Powell’s costume design by Tim Pelan for Cinetropolis. Game of Thrones More secrets in the costumes, unless you want to…
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Top Costumes of the Year 2013
What a busy twelve months it’s been for costume design. Really though, this art, or craft, or business (Deborah Nadoolman Landis insists it is definitely a business) gets more talked about each year. 2013 was especially exciting however as it seemed every month something even more thrilling arrived to fawn over. In the last few weeks alone we have had The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Sleepy Hollow, and now American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street on the horizon. Dipping back further, it was Stoker that got us excited about subtext, The Great Gatsby that slammed the lid on that twenties revival once and for all, and Behind…
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Costume Stories: This Week, Much Ado and Superman
Costume links of the week.
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CDG Award Nominations Are In: Hmm…
The Costume Designers Guild Award nominations right some wrongs and ignore quite a few others.
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Oscar Nominations: At Least One Surprise
Oscar announces their Costume Design nominees and at least make up for one BAFTA shortfall.
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BAFTA Nominations: Guess the Line-Up
BAFTA Costume design nominations announced. Worthy, but no surprises.
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Sharen Davis Costume Interview: Django Unchained
Django Unchained costume designer Sharen Davis exclusively explains her work on the film.
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Django Unchained: Tarantino’s First Costume Oscar?
Could Django Unchained be the first Quentin Tarantino movie to win a Costume Design Oscar?
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Piper Perabo Discusses Looper Costume Design
Piper Perabo chats to Clothes on Film about costume design for her role in Looper.
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Looper: Costume Designer Sharen Davis Reveals Inspiration
Costume Designer Sharen Davis talks us through her retro-vision for Looper.
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Review: Looper
A mishmash of sci-fi conventions and clichés cobbled together as something we have never quite seen before.
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