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    Costuming Hitchcock: An Extract from Hitchcock’s Heroines by Caroline Young

    6 Jun ’18 /

    Author Caroline Young has just released a fascinating new book entitled Hitchcock’s Heroines (published by Insight Editions). It celebrates and studies the women in Hitchcock movies; their influence, semblance and iconography. What’s more, Young also examines the role costume design plays with these women, both the characters and the actresses who played them, and how they can be interpreted as far more than just ‘icy blondes’. Here we have an extract of the book exclusively for Clothes on Film: Kim Novak’s grey suit the colour of San Francisco fog in Vertigo, Grace Kelly as the too-perfect woman in Rear Window, and Janet Leigh’s black and white sets of underwear to…

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    Lawless: Interview with Costume Designer Margot Wilson

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    Trailer for Amelia Touches Down: Radical Fashions 1920s-30s

    26 Jun ’09

    Puttin’ on the Glitz at The British Library: A Look Back

    11 Apr ’14
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    Brian de Palma’s Passion: Costume as Contemporary Hitchcock

    16 Oct ’14 /

    Director Brian De Palma has made movies heavily influenced by Alfred Hitchcock before, but Passion (2012) is the first one whose characters look like they stepped out of one of Hitchcock’s classic films. Karen Muller-Serreau’s bold and colourful costumes communicate the characters’ hidden desires and make watching Passion a sensory experience. This melodrama centres on two ad executives, Isabelle (Noomi Rapace) and her boss Christine (Rachel McAdams), who have a deadline to come up with an ad campaign for a new smartphone. In her sleep, Isabelle thinks of a great idea. The two other principal characters are Isabelle’s assistant Dani (Karoline Herfurth) and Christine’s boyfriend Dirk (Paul Anderson) who get…

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    Why is Miss Piggy Wearing a Vivienne Westwood Wedding Dress?

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    Realism through Identity: Clothing in The Last of Us

    30 Nov ’13

    Costume Design in Stoker: Control Yourself

    2 Mar ’13
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    The Birds: Tippi Hedren in the Green Suit

    7 Aug ’13 /

    Why does Tippi Hedren wear a green suit in The Birds, and what does it mean?

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    Deena Appel on Creating the Costume World of The Spy Who Shagged Me

    2 Oct ’18

    Diana Rigg in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: To Die For

    24 Jun ’11

    X-Men: First Class Trailer

    11 Feb ’11
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    Hollywood Costume Exhibition Opens at the V&A in London

    26 Oct ’12 /

    A rundown of why Hollywood Costume at the V&A is the best event you will see all year.

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    Iron Man 2: Some Late in the Day Images

    22 Apr ’10

    Running Scared: Costume Designer Kristin Burke – Part 2

    23 Feb ’10

    Ice Cold Movie Posters Inspired by Male Costume

    7 Oct ’10
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    Hollywood Costume Exhibition Coming to V&A

    20 Jan ’12 /

    Hollywood costume comes to London’s Victoria & Albert Museum in the most exciting exhibition of its type ever announced.

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    3rd Fashion in Film Festival Launches

    10 Nov ’10

    Film Review: Misery

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