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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of Just About Everyone)
Contributor Birdie McAra explores the fantabulously non-male gazey world of Birds of Prey.
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Ocean’s 8: Fashioning Costume
MINOR SPOILERS Movies that feature contemporary fashion, particularly high-end and particularly for women, are a tricky sell costume wise. While men’s semi-formal to formal attire is generally shaped around the fundamental guise of the lounge suit, women’s clothing has a lot more avenues and possibilities. In addition to colour and pattern there is shape and form, which can vary dramatically for the fashionable wearer. What can vary dramatically can also date dramatically and this can be major stumbling block for costume designers. Films centred around the world of fashion, or those that include a lot of fashionable garments such as The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Clueless (1995) and Funny Face…
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Review: Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson’s most sartorially significant film yet.
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Boogie Nights Costume: Dirty Time
Mark Bridges exclusively explains his costume choices for retro epic Boogie Nights.
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Diana Rigg in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: To Die For
As TracyDi Vicenzo in OHMSS, Diana Rigg wore a daring 1960s wedding ensemble.
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Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were: Forties Meets Seventies
Throughout The Way We Were, Barbra Streisand wears a mix of period authenticity and contemporary fashion.
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Favourite Fashions From Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Less a costume movie and more a fashion one, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is typical of its naughty director Russ Meyer in all the best ways.
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Michael Caine in Pulp
Michael Caine is the epitome of badly folded cool.
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Rosemary’s Baby: Mia Farrow’s Red Trouser Suit
Rosemary's Baby is the perfect mid-sixties set fashion movie.