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    Alpha Papa: Dress like a Partridge

    21 Aug ’13 /

    Stone slacks, leather cardigan, pale denim – who wouldn’t want to dress like Alan Partridge? This may be dad brand clothing, but it announces you as the most confident man in the room. Driving gloves? That’s nothing. Try removing your coat and jacket then leaving the driving gloves until last. That takes guts, or failing that a complete lack of personal awareness. In other words it takes a Partridge. Steve Coogan co-created and has played sports-journalist-turned-chat-show-host-turned-DJ Alan Partridge on and off for 22 years. Nothing his character wears is random. For costume designer Julian Day (Berberian Sound Studio, Rush), working alongside perfectionist Coogan on Alpha Papa must have been a…

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  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Girls on TV,  Premium

    Game of Thrones Costume Analysis: Daenerys Targaryen

    16 Jul ’13 /

    The costume evolution of Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones.

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  • Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News

    The Three Musketeers Trailer: French Dressing

    1 Apr ’11 /

    The trailer for The Three Musketeers affords the briefest peek at those 17th century costumes.

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  • Bond on film,  Clothes from 1970s,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    Live and Let Die: Yaphet Kotto’s Brown Suede Trench Coat

    26 Feb ’10 /

    One of the seventies’ more successful attempts to modernise fashions of the past.

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    Roger Moore’s Plaid Jacket in The Man with the Golden Gun

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  • Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News,  Pre-Victorian

    Robin Hood Trailer Arrives: Fiiiiight!

    16 Dec ’09 /

    The first trailer for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood has hit the internet. Hit is the right word, as this is more battle royal than Prince of Thieves.

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