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    Costuming Hitchcock: An Extract from Hitchcock’s Heroines by Caroline Young

    6 Jun ’18 /

    Author Caroline Young has just released a fascinating new book entitled Hitchcock’s Heroines (published by Insight Editions). It celebrates and studies the women in Hitchcock movies; their influence, semblance and iconography. What’s more, Young also examines the role costume design plays with these women, both the characters and the actresses who played them, and how they can be interpreted as far more than just ‘icy blondes’. Here we have an extract of the book exclusively for Clothes on Film: Kim Novak’s grey suit the colour of San Francisco fog in Vertigo, Grace Kelly as the too-perfect woman in Rear Window, and Janet Leigh’s black and white sets of underwear to…

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    Film Review: Chinatown

    19 Oct ’09

    UK Film Review: Public Enemies

    1 Jul ’09

    Costume Designer Ann Roth: “I Don’t Dress Movie Stars”

    29 Mar ’11
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    Debbie Reynolds Costume Auction: Marilyn Goes for $4.6 Million!

    20 Jun ’11 /

    $ 4,600,000 for Marilyn Monroe’s ‘subway’ dress was only just one mega bid of many.

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    X-Men: First Class Costumes

    20 Jan ’11

    The Hangover Costume Guide: Black Suits and Shades

    15 Dec ’09

    Inglourious Basterds: Costume Lowdown by Anna Sheppard

    28 Sep ’09
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    To Catch a Thief: Grace Kelly’s Coral Top and Skirt

    21 May ’11 /

    This coral pink ensemble encompasses and challenges the absolute femininity of Grace Kelly.

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    Inglourious Basterds: Costume Lowdown by Anna Sheppard

    28 Sep ’09

    Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were: Forties Meets Seventies

    16 May ’11

    Gangster Squad: Gangster Gloss

    28 Jan ’13
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    National Treasure 2: Diane Kruger’s Costume Quest

    26 Apr ’11 /

    Judianna Makovsky demonstrates that contemporary fashion with a plot is far more fun than a flick through Vogue.

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

    10 Feb ’20

    Four Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Goodie Bags To Give Away

    24 Sep ’10

    Noomi Rapace in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    8 Dec ’11
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    To Catch a Thief: Grace Kelly’s Beach Wear

    5 Apr ’11 /

    This is the most fun and elaborate outfit Grace Kelly wears in To Catch a Thief.

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    Costuming Hitchcock: An Extract from Hitchcock’s Heroines by Caroline Young

    6 Jun ’18

    A Colourful Tale: The Costume Canvas of Dick Tracy

    27 Feb ’15

    Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were: Forties Meets Seventies

    16 May ’11
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    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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    Captain America: Q&A with Costume Designer Anna B. Sheppard

    29 Jul ’11

    A Colourful Tale: The Costume Canvas of Dick Tracy

    27 Feb ’15

    Film Review: Shutter Island

    13 Apr ’10
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    Edith Head Sketches for Grace Kelly Costumes to be Auctioned

    11 Nov ’10 /

    Christie’s are auctioning several Edith Head sketches for costume designs worn by Grace Kelly.

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    Rear Window: Miss Lonelyheart’s Green Dress

    6 Nov ’09

    Anna Karenina: Jacqueline Durran Talks Jewellery & Costume

    11 Jan ’13

    New Shutter Island Trailer Debuts: Serious Fifties Costumes

    3 Oct ’09
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    Clothes on Film Visit the V&A Grace Kelly Exhibition

    12 May ’10 /

    Last week Clothes on Film visited the Grace Kelly: Style Icon exhibition. This is what we found out.

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    Charlie Sheen Back in Braces for Wall Street 2

    9 Sep ’09

    The Hangover Costume Guide: Black Suits and Shades

    15 Dec ’09

    13 Going On 30: Colourful Jennifer Garner

    27 Aug ’10
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    Grace Kelly Exhibition Opens at the V&A

    17 Apr ’10 /

    The V&A in London is hosting an exhibition of dresses and accessories once belonging to Grace Kelly.

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    King Kong: Naomi Watts’ Pink Slip

    6 Oct ’09

    Anchorman 2 Trailer: Ron and Friends Meet the 80’s

    19 Jun ’13

    Running Scared: Costume Designer Kristin Burke – Part 2

    23 Feb ’10
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    Rear Window: Miss Lonelyheart’s Green Dress

    6 Nov ’09 /

    Of course Rear Window wasn't all about Grace Kelly...

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    New Shutter Island Trailer Debuts: Serious Fifties Costumes

    3 Oct ’09

    Rear Window: Grace Kelly’s Green Suit

    1 Jun ’09

    To Catch a Thief: Grace Kelly’s Beach Wear

    5 Apr ’11
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    Rear Window: Grace Kelly’s Paris Dress

    5 May ’09 /

    This might be the most famous and copied outfit Grace Kelly ever wore.

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    The Look of Love: Q&A with Costume Designer Stephanie Collie

    29 Aug ’13

    Shifting Trends: Claire Foy in First Man

    25 Oct ’18

    Rear Window: Grace Kelly’s Green Suit

    1 Jun ’09