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    Suit Yourself: Elliot Gould in The Long Goodbye

    12 Dec ’13 /

    Newly released on collectable Blu-ray, The Long Goodbye (1973, directed by Robert Altman) is the kind of film you feel ashamed for not watching more often. Starring Elliot Gould as Raymond Chandler’s pulp private dick Phillip Marlowe, this is a quirky, very seventies re-imagining of the Humphrey Bogart man-in-a-trenchcoat myth. The film is contemporary set, yet Gould’s Marlowe is a man out of place and time. Everything from his car to apartment to clothes is indicative of the P.I’s golden age; a world of cocktails, dames and pinstripe suits, not cat food, hippies and polyester. Hollywood’s effortless private detective was created in the post-Prohibition era of the 1930s-40s, and into…

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

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    Film Review: Freebie and the Bean

    25 Jul ’09

    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Dressed Trailer

    1 Jul ’11
  • Clothes from 1930s,  Clothes from 1990s,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    The Secret Sharer: Abbie Cornish & Andrea Riseborough in W.E.

    20 Mar ’12 /

    The glamorous look of the mid-1930s threads its way through dual love stories in W.E.

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    Costume Designer Ann Roth: “I Don’t Dress Movie Stars”

    29 Mar ’11

    Kate Winslet in Mildred Pierce: Sex and the Housedress

    1 Jul ’11

    Lawless: Interview with Costume Designer Margot Wilson

    27 Sep ’12
  • News

    Orange BAFTA Film Awards: The Costume Nominees

    7 Feb ’12 /

    Who might win for costume design at the Orange BAFTA Film Awards?

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    Robin Hood: Costume Photo Fest

    29 Apr ’10

    Clueless: Calvin Klein White Dress Makes Comeback

    8 Jul ’10

    Brooklyn’s Finest Trailer Kicks All Kinds of Butt

    4 Dec ’09
  • Clothes from 1970s,  Film Reviews,  Guys in Films,  Guys on TV

    Review: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    5 Sep ’11 /

    A classy, very British affair.

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    Dual Analysis: The Big Lebowski – KB’s Thoughts

    7 Jun ’10

    Anchorman 2 Trailer: Ron and Friends Meet the 80’s

    19 Jun ’13

    Dual Analysis: The Big Lebowski – Chris’ Thoughts

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  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News

    New Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Trailer is No Drag

    23 Sep ’10 /

    Harry subverts his identity to get lost in the crowd during this blistering new trailer for New Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I.

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    Looper: Costume Designer Sharen Davis Reveals Inspiration

    28 Sep ’12

    Inception: Jeffrey Kurland – Follow Up Costume Q&A

    20 Aug ’10

    The Martian: The Perfect 10 Spacesuit

    6 Oct ’15
  • Clothes from now,  News

    Toy Story Ken Models for Esquire

    15 Jul ’10 /

    Esquire have featured a fashion shoot with Ken from Toy Story 3. That’s right; a doll dresses better than you.

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    Review: The Dark Knight Rises

    21 Jul ’12

    About Time to Dress Upper Middle Class

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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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