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  • Clothes from now,  Girls in Films,  Premium

    Ocean’s 8: Fashioning Costume

    10 Jul ’18 /

    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: The Dark Knight Rises

    21 Jul ’12

    About Time to Dress Upper Middle Class

    9 May ’14

    Short Film Costume: Ashes, Inside the Captive Mind

    24 Jul ’13
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Premium

    Disney’s Cinderella Trailer: The Costumes of Sandy Powell

    21 Nov ’14 /

    The first full-length trailer for Disney’s new live-action adaptation of Cinderella was this week and featured tantalising glimpses of what promises to be a visually gorgeous film. The costumes, designed by three time Academy Award winner Sandy Powell, appear to be absolutely stunning. With a clever mix of the eighteenth century, the 1830s, and a little 1950s couture thrown in for good measure (Powell has been quoted as saying she was aiming for the look of “a nineteenth-century period film made in the 1940s or ’50s”), Powell has created another jewel to add to her already over-bling crown. Here is a quick rundown of some of the looks we’ve been…

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    The Catwalk of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

    15 Nov ’13

    UK Film Review: The Road

    19 Nov ’09

    Star Wars Corsets: Force Needed to Get into Them

    8 Jun ’10
  • Clothes from now,  Girls in Films,  Interviews

    Hanging by a Thread: Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine

    31 Jan ’14 /

    Suzy Benzinger, the costume designer of Blue Jasmine, chose iconic brands like Hermès, Louis Vuitton, and Missoni to serve as visual shorthand of what the modern-day wealthy socialite wears, but it is the white Chanel jacket that follows Jasmine from the beginning of the movie to the end which tells its own tale of what is happening to its owner. When we first see Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) she is flying first-class from New York to San Francisco to see her sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins). On the flight she dazzles a fellow passenger with the story of how she met her wealthy businessman husband Hal (Alec Baldwin). Or so she thinks.…

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    Crazy, Stupid, Love: Suits and 407s

    27 Jan ’12

    Drive: Red Band Trailer. Amazing

    23 Jul ’11

    The Intern: Jacqueline Oknaian Costume Interview

    2 Oct ’15
  • Costume Stories and Links,  Girls in Films

    Costume Stories: This Week, X-Men & Marathon Man

    31 Aug ’13 /

    Costumes! Read all about it! Fifty Shades of Grey Will Victoria Beckham be the film’s costume designer? Oh dear, we smell another Black Swan situation. X-Men: First Class Part two of Gavia Baker’s superb costume round up. This time: menswear. Gwen Russell The costume maker of Dangerous Liaisons (not the costume DESIGNER like this sloppy article states) – she lives in Croydon, don’t cha know? Camera Ready In development TV show by Syfy, where 10 costume designers compete to create works of sartorial art for film, TV and music videos. Blue Jasmine Insightful guide to Cate Blanchett’s terribly chic and expensive costumes. Marathon Man Mode Parade has something interesting to…

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    Costume Stories, This Week: Map to the Stars and Dallas

    7 Jun ’14

    Costume Stories, This Week: Thor: The Dark World and Reign

    26 Oct ’13

    Costume Stories, This Week: Sandy Powell and Bad Grandpa

    16 Nov ’13
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    Costume Stories: This Week, Blue Jasmine and Roman Holiday

    24 Aug ’13 /

    Tales from the costume crypt. The Talented Mr Ripley Remembering the stellar work of Ann Roth and Gary Jones. Blue Jasmine Costume designer Suzy Benzinger on budgets, Fendi and Cate Blanchett. The Butler Transformations…Ruth Carter discusses mimicking classic fashion designers such as Bill Blass to recreate Nancy Reagan (played by Jane Fonda). Jenn Rogien The Girls’ costume designer is now Gap’s official ‘styled by’ expert. Orange is the New Black More Miss Rogien, this time talking authenticity and maxi-pad shoes. Roman Holiday Just brilliant costume analysis of the film by DTSFT. Elysium A brief chat with costume designer April Ferry. Unsurprisingly, it was Jodie Foster who brought Armani on board.

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    Costume Stories, This Week: Noah and Hannibal

    5 Apr ’14

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

    2 Nov ’13

    Costume Stories: This Week, Jobs and Tootsie

    13 Jul ’13
  • Girls in Films,  Girls on TV,  Guys in Films,  Guys on TV,  Interviews,  Premium

    Clothes on Film’s 2011 Costume Design Round Up

    28 Dec ’11 /

    By no means intended as an exhaustive list, Clothes on Film ponder an overview of 2011 in costume.

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    Noomi Rapace in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    8 Dec ’11

    Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of Just About Everyone)

    10 Feb ’20

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    20 Apr ’12
  • Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News,  Pre-Victorian

    Robin Hood: Costume Photo Fest

    29 Apr ’10 /

    Want another look at Janty Yates’ costume design for Robin Hood? Thought you might.

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    Les Aventures Extraordinaires d’Adele Blanc-Sec: Full Trailer

    23 Mar ’10

    Captain America: The First Trailer

    24 Mar ’11

    Boardwalk Empire Trailer Hits. Can. Not. Wait.

    14 Jun ’10
  • Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News,  Pre-Victorian

    New Robin Hood Trailer: Fighting Talk

    11 Mar ’10 /

    The latest in a queue of trailers for Ridley Scott's version of Robin Hood has arrived. This one shows some basic plot too.

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    14 May ’09

    Phantom Thread: An Insight into Autism and Relationships

    23 Mar ’18

    Moviescope Interview with Deborah Nadoolman Landis

    26 Nov ’12
  • Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News,  Pre-Victorian

    Robin Hood: Some Pics for the Weekend

    15 Jan ’10 /

    Make the day disappear faster by checking out some pics from Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett.

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    Belle de Jour: Sex and Alienation

    13 Oct ’09

    New Thor Pic: Now Hopkins & Hiddleston

    14 Jul ’10

    True Grit: Exclusive Costume Featurette

    4 Feb ’11