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  • Clothes from 1970s,  Guys in Films

    Richard Burton is The Dandy Villain

    3 Apr ’20 /

    How Richard Burton’s character in Villain (1971) dresses to impress and intimidate.

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    Dark Shadows Trailer: Campy, Period Blending Costume Fun

    16 Mar ’12

    Win a Grease Sing-a-Long Goodie Bag!

    16 Sep ’10

    Alien Anthology: A Revolution in Sci-Fi Costume Design

    19 Oct ’10
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Clothes from now,  Guys in Films

    The Pure Nerd-Joy of Mysterio’s Costume in Spider-Man: Far From Home

    22 Jul ’19 /

    The latest MCU smash-hit, Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), features one of the strangest villains in the wallcrawler’s rogues’ gallery. When it comes to movies based on comic books, the outfit a character like Mysterio wears is not supposed to work on-screen. On the printed pages of comics, the outfits can be impractical and outlandish, and nothing is more of those things than the villain’s fishbowl helmet, lavender cape fastened with giant eyes, and green, scaly tights. Still, costume designer for the film, Anna B. Sheppard, met the challenge of making a fantastic look for Jake Gyllenhaal’s villain. Instead of running away from the crazy roots of the character, she…

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

    23 Sep ’10

    All the Catching Fire Fashion Portraits in One Place

    9 Mar ’13

    World War Z and the Art of Breaking Down

    27 Jun ’13
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Girls on TV,  Premium

    Game of Thrones Costume Evolution: Sansa in Black

    16 Apr ’15 /

    The highly anticipated season five premiere of Game of Thrones aired across the globe this week, giving us tantalising glimpses of where our favorite characters are now. We saw two brief scenes of Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner), who had a major makeover at the end of Season Four. With this new direction in her character, where will she end up in Season Five? In this little addendum to our previous analysis of her wardrobe, we explore the character clues in Sansa’s striking new look (costume design by Michele Clapton). Sansa has not had it easy so far. During the last few seasons she has been trapped in King’s Landing, tortured…

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    A Colourful Tale: The Costume Canvas of Dick Tracy

    27 Feb ’15

    Ghostbusters: Sigourney Weaver’s Cape Coat

    15 Sep ’09

    New Thor Pic: Now Hopkins & Hiddleston

    14 Jul ’10