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  • Clothes from 1837-1919,  Girls on TV,  Guys on TV,  Interviews,  Premium

    The Alienist: Costume Featurette Provides Glimpse into Gilded Style

    26 Apr ’18 /

    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 is enticing about The Alienist, apart from the fact that it’s brilliant whodunit telly, is that it is set outside of England, which is so often the preserve of dramas such as these. This is NY style at a point in history when those with money were about to get a whole lot more. Expensive, in other words, and if you had deep enough pockets your taste in fashion would echo this. Check out the…

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    Anna Karenina Coming to Banana Republic: Costume Fashion?

    30 Jun ’12

    Louise Bourgoin as Adèle Blanc-Sec: Feathers in Her Hat

    12 Aug ’11

    Sherlock Holmes Costume Guide Part 1: Frock Coats & Bustles

    17 May ’10
  • Clothes from 1930s,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Interviews,  Premium

    Murder on the Orient Express: Interview with Costume Designer Alexandra Byrne

    2 Nov ’17 /

    Clothes on Film were fortunate enough to be invited to a display of costumes from the latest adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express (2017), plus interview its costume designer Alexandra Byrne. An Oscar winner for Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2008), and well known for her period design work, since 2011 Byrne has become connected to the world of Marvel, her most recent project being Doctor Strange in 2016. Here she chats candidly about recreating the (mainly) glamorous side of the early 1930s and the challenges that faced her and her team. Alexandra Byrne on shooting in 70 mm: “Director Ken (Branagh) and I did Hamlet (1996) together which was…

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    HBO Sessions Video: Clothes on Film Discuss Mildred Pierce

    21 Nov ’11

    Changeling: Angelina Jolie’s Fur Trimmed Coat

    5 May ’10

    King Kong: Naomi Watts’ White Evening Dress

    23 Oct ’09
  • Clothes from 1940s,  Clothes from 1950s,  Interviews,  Premium

    Costuming The Dressmaker

    9 Nov ’15 /

    Twenty-five years ago, costume designer Margot Wilson was a student living in Paris when she picked up a roll of red, moire silk fabric during a shopping trip to Milan. She didn’t know why, or what for; she wasn’t even a costume designer then, just a talented young fashion grad from East Sydney Tech on a six-month scholarship to France. When it was time to go home, she took the beautiful roll of fabric back down under with her. Fast forward three decades and a couple of dozen films later (including Lantana, Bran Nue Dae and Lawless), and Wilson has finally found a screen role for her magnificent weave –…

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    Cinema Paradiso: Invisible Costume

    9 Feb ’15

    Review: Captain America: The First Avenger

    25 Jul ’11

    Captain America: The First Trailer

    24 Mar ’11
  • Clothes from 1980s,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    Smooth Talk: “Tomorrow Night I’ll Wear the Halter”

    23 Nov ’13 /

    Moments of sartorial significance, and that glimmer of recognition that we feel upon seeing an onscreen outfit worn more than once are found throughout Smooth Talk, Joyce Chopra’s underseen 1986 adaptation of a Joyce Carol Oates short story. The film is rife with all the monotony of life and charming ensembles we expect of a teenage girl in the summer, yet it simultaneously offers complexity and creepiness. Laura Dern plays Connie, an ingénue spending her days as an “unfinished girl, waiting for completion of some sort” (Quart 74). In her essay, “Smoothing Out the Rough Spots: The Film Adaptation of ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’” Rebecca Sumner…

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    Dual Analysis: Beetle Juice – Chris’ Thoughts

    27 Oct ’09

    Rumble Fish: Dress Code Integrity in Gang Culture

    30 Aug ’12

    Hot Tub Time Machine Trailer: Colourful Past

    25 Dec ’09
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    Oz the Great and Powerful: Close Up Look at the Costumes

    11 Mar ’13 /

    A first-hand close-up look at costumes from Oz the Great and Powerful.

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    Realism through Identity: Clothing in The Last of Us

    30 Nov ’13

    Snow White & the Huntsman Trailer: Atwood Hits It

    11 Nov ’11

    First Look: Chris Evans as Captain America

    14 Jan ’11
  • Clothes from 1837-1919,  Girls in Films,  Premium

    The Phantom of the Opera: Colour, Character and Costume

    5 Dec ’12 /

    The Phantom of the opera demonstrates that the colour, size and shape of a character’s costumes can communicate on a subliminal level.

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    Status and Signifiers: Costume in There Will Be Blood

    1 Apr ’14

    Dark Shadows Trailer: Campy, Period Blending Costume Fun

    16 Mar ’12

    True Grit: Exclusive Costume Featurette

    4 Feb ’11
  • Clothes from 1837-1919,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News

    Django Unchained: Tarantino’s First Costume Oscar?

    23 Oct ’12 /

    Could Django Unchained be the first Quentin Tarantino movie to win a Costume Design Oscar?

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    The Alienist: Costume Featurette Provides Glimpse into Gilded Style

    26 Apr ’18

    Peaky Blinders: Q&A with Costume Designer Stephanie Collie

    15 Oct ’13

    Review: Les Misérables

    20 Dec ’12
  • Clothes from 1837-1919,  Girls in Films,  Interviews,  Premium

    Costume Designer Anaïs Romand Discusses House of Tolerance

    7 Sep ’12 /

    French costume designer Anaïs Romand discusses her work on House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close).

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    Review: War Horse

    16 Jan ’12

    Review: The Woman in Black

    10 Feb ’12

    Peaky Blinders: Q&A with Costume Designer Stephanie Collie

    15 Oct ’13
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Clothes from now,  Film Reviews,  Girls in Films

    Review: Melancholia

    21 Oct ’11 /

    The most exquisite fashion promo ever made.

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    Journeying Into the Costumes of Into the Woods

    9 Mar ’15

    Star Wars: Interview with Michael Kaplan

    22 Jan ’16

    Iron Man 2 Fan Costume: Fan-tastic

    21 Jul ’10
  • Clothes from 1837-1919,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Interviews,  Premium

    The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Costume Q&A with Lucinda Wright

    3 Jun ’11 /

    Lucinda Wright talks to Clothes on Film about her contribution to The Suspicions of Mr Whicher starring Paddy Considine.

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    Bright Star Trailer Online: 19th Century Costumes Afoot

    9 Oct ’09

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

    23 Mar ’10

    Exclusive Costume Featurette for My Cousin Rachel

    31 May ’17
  • Clothes from 1940s,  Clothes from 1950s,  Girls in Films,  Premium

    To Catch a Thief: Grace Kelly in Blue Chiffon

    2 Mar ’11 /

    As worn by Grace Kelly, this floaty, conspicuous dress is an appreciable nod to Dior’s ‘New Look’ of the late 1940s.

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    To Catch a Thief: Grace Kelly’s Beach Wear

    5 Apr ’11

    Captain America: The First Trailer

    24 Mar ’11

    Robert Cummings in Saboteur: Costume Judgement

    4 Jan ’11
  • Clothes from 2000-10,  Clothes from now,  Girls in Films,  News

    New Burlesque Trailer? Corset Is

    21 Oct ’10 /

    A brand new international trailer for Burlesque has pranced onto the internet.

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    Wall Street 2 On-Set Photos Online

    11 Sep ’09

    Kate Hudson in Le Divorce: Love is in the Bag

    10 Jun ’11

    Noomi Rapace in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    8 Dec ’11
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