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The Little Drummer Girl: A Colourful Pretence

14 Dec ’1814 Dec ’18 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1970s

SPOILERS THROUGHOUT Having recently finished a six week, six episode run on the BBC, John le Carré adapted spy drama The Little Drummer Girl was divisive in terms of audience reaction. Some found the plot[…]

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The Alienist: Costume Featurette Provides Glimpse into Gilded Style

26 Apr ’18 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1837-1919

Netflix have released a short featurette about costume design for The Alienist, giving an overall glimpse at the work of Michael Kaplan and his team in putting together the era of 1896, New York. What[…]

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Homecoming: Betsy Heimann on Costuming Godless

15 Dec ’1717 Dec ’17 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1837-1919

MINOR SPOILERS At a pivotal juncture during the Fathers & Sons episode of Godless (2017), the camera tracks into a pink ribbon tied on the back of young woman’s hair; a woman who is suffering[…]

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Luke Cage: Swiss Cheese Hoodie

14 Nov ’1612 May ’17 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi

MILD SPOILERS The hoodie has as much to say about it’s wearer as, say, the white t-shirt does. By which I mean that, depending on context, it can say anything. The white t-shirt can imply[…]

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Sons of Anarchy: Identity and the Outlaw: Women of SAMCRO

19 Sep ’1415 Oct ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyGirls on TV

Part two of our essay looking at sartorial identity in Sons of Anarchy, featuring exclusive insight from series costume designer Kelli Jones. Catch up with part 1 HERE. The women of SAMCRO include porn stars[…]

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Sons of Anarchy: Costume Identity and the Outlaw

15 Sep ’1415 Oct ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from now

Sons of Anarchy portrays the fictionalised world of an outlaw motorcycle club; although the plots are dramatic in the extreme, many of the details are firmly based in realism, including the costuming. Series creator Kurt[…]

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Doctor Who: A Contemporary Costume Evolution

21 Aug ’1431 Aug ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi

Doctor Who, the quirky British sci-fi television series about a time travelling alien and his friends, premiered in 1963. Since then there have been twelve Doctors (and a War Doctor), each with their own unique[…]

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Penny Dreadful: Dressing the Monsters of Victorian London

20 May ’141 Jul ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1837-1919

NO SPOILERS Real and mythological, figurative and literal; monsters of all kinds abound in Sky Atlantic’s new period horror series Penny Dreadful. We might expect a skulking figure in a top hat and frock coat[…]

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A Comfortable Future: The Costume Design of Her

13 Feb ’1418 Apr ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi

The near future romance Her, written and directed by Spike Jonze, whose widely diverse resume ranges from the world of music videos to MTV’s Jackass to major motion pictures, brought together a creative team that[…]

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Sleepy Hollow: Q&A with Costume Designer Kristin M. Burke

4 Feb ’142 Jun ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1837-1919

If you watch supernatural cop show Sleepy Hollow on Fox (Universal in the UK), you will definitely know who Kristin Burke is. Her sartorial contribution to the first season has ingrained the series with a[…]

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Top Costumes of the Year 2013

28 Dec ’132 May ’18 Lord Christopher LavertyGirls in Films

What a busy twelve months it’s been for costume design. Really though, this art, or craft, or business (Deborah Nadoolman Landis insists it is definitely a business) gets more talked about each year. 2013 was[…]

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Lucinda Wright on Costume in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

2 Jul ’1311 Jan ’14 Lord Christopher LavertyClothes from 1837-1919

Lucinda Wright talks costume in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder in Angel Lane.

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