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    Costume Stories, This Week: Inside Llewyn Davis & Mockingjay

    1 Feb ’14 /

    This week you may have missed… Ingenious Costume Design Good list from Rebecca Clough at Den of Geek of ingenious movie costume design. And while we’re about it, congratulations to another of their regular writers, Ryan Lambie, for his FDA Richard Attenborough Blogger of the Year Award. Inside Llewyn Davis Kristin M. Burke has a chat with the Coen brothers’ regular costume designer Mary Zophres. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Trish Summerville out, Kurt & Bart in for the third Hunger Games movie. Odd after Summerville being such a successful choice, but we get the feeling this is most intentional. Cash hungry producers have realised Katniss’ costume designers are…

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    Costume Stories, This Week: Edith Head and Ender’s Game

    2 Nov ’13

    Costume Round Up: Any Colour so long as it’s Black

    30 Mar ’13

    Costume Stories, This Week: Grace of Monaco & Penny Dreadful

    17 May ’14
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    Costume Stories, This Week: Sandy Powell and Bad Grandpa

    16 Nov ’13 /

    What have you missed costume wise this week? Well…. Sandy Powell In conversation with Kinvara Balfour at the Regent Street Apple Store, 18th November. Scandal Lyn Paolo has no intention of becoming a fashion designer. Sleepy Hollow We’re a bit behind with this now but looking forward to a marathon catch up. Here series costume designer Kristin M. Burke answers fan questions posed on Twitter. Bad Grandpa Kristin Burke chats to costume designer Lindsey Kear about working without a script. The Great Gatsby Catherine Martin was initially worried the film would look like “a flapper themed 21st birthday party”. Thor: The Dark World Spoilers abound, but if you’ve seen the…

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    Costume Stories, This Week: The Winter Soldier and Mad Men

    12 Apr ’14

    Costume Stories: This Week, Look of Love and Man of Steel

    22 Jun ’13

    Costume Stories, This Week: The Grandmaster and Fleming

    22 Feb ’14
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Clothes from now,  Girls in Films

    Net-a-Porter to Launch Hunger Games Capsule Collection

    5 Sep ’13 /

    Must admit, we kind of saw this one coming. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire costume designer Trish Summerville has teamed up with online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter to produce 16 ready-to-wear outfits, leather goods and jewellery tied into the film. These ensembles will available exclusively at Net-a-Porter while being simultaneously promoted through Lionsgate’s Capital Couture website. Summerville, recently honoured as Costume Designer of the Year at the 10th Annual Style Awards, commented she’s “extremely proud of the designs that we created for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and there’s no partner more appropriate for Capitol Couture than the world’s most cutting-edge luxury retailer”. If anyone can make such a collection work,…

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    Inception: Jeffrey Kurland Costume Q&A

    31 Jul ’10

    Alien Anthology: A Revolution in Sci-Fi Costume Design – PT2

    26 Oct ’10

    Now Thor Costume Leaks: Must Be a Trend

    4 Jun ’10
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    Costume Stories: This Week, Catching Fire and Gatsby Again

    27 Apr ’13 /

    The week's big costume design stories and links.

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    Costume Stories, This Week: Sandy Powell and Bad Grandpa

    16 Nov ’13

    Costume Stories, This Week: Her and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D

    21 Dec ’13

    Costume Stories, This Week: Dallas and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D

    8 Mar ’14
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films

    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Teaser Trailer Hits

    15 Apr ’13 /

    The very first trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and it’s more uniform than glamour.

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    A Comfortable Future: The Costume Design of Her

    13 Feb ’14

    Back to the Future Nikes go on Sale: You Can’t Afford Them

    9 Sep ’11

    Review: Inception

    13 Jul ’10
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Costume Stories and Links,  Premium

    Costume Round Up: Flights of Fantasy

    10 Mar ’13 /

    To celebrate the release of Oz the Great and Powerful, here is a round up of the best fantasy costume posts at Clothes on Film.

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    First Look at Captain America: The Winter Soldier Costume

    12 Jun ’13

    Captain America: Costume Leaks All Over the Place

    3 Jun ’10

    Full Alice in Wonderland Trailer Hits: Potty But Pretty

    16 Dec ’09
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    All the Catching Fire Fashion Portraits in One Place

    9 Mar ’13 /

    A fun glimpse at the bizarre fashions to expect in Catching Fire thanks to costume designer Trish Summerville.

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    Woman Inherits the Earth: Femininity in Jurassic World

    19 Jun ’15

    Become The Babadook

    28 Oct ’14

    Costume Designer Michael Kaplan Confirmed for Star Wars VII

    19 May ’13
  • Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News

    BAFTA Nominations: Guess the Line-Up

    9 Jan ’13 /

    BAFTA Costume design nominations announced. Worthy, but no surprises.

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    Review: Norwegian Wood

    27 May ’11

    Film Review: Knight and Day

    5 Aug ’10

    Brave: Costume in Animation – Interview with Claudia Chung

    16 Aug ’12
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    Review: The Hunger Games

    25 Mar ’12 /

    Judianna Makovsky’s costume design provides an intentional method of understanding The Hunger Games’ politics.

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    First Look: Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man

    13 Jan ’11

    Infinity War Costume Design: The Unfamiliar Familiar

    4 May ’18

    World War Z and the Art of Breaking Down

    27 Jun ’13