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  • Clothes from 1960s,  Clothes on Film Video,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films

    A Look at the Style of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

    9 Sep ’19 /

    A brief video dip into the costume design of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

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    Get on Up: Sharen Davis Shares Costume Design Sketches

    9 Dec ’14

    Sean Connery in Dr. No: The Template For 007

    10 Dec ’10

    Rosemary’s Baby: Chris and KB Chat About the Film

    4 Jan ’10
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    Grace Slick Wears Woodstock

    28 Oct ’14 /

    “We are stardust, we are golden”, sang Joni Mitchell of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, held August 15-18th 1969, at a dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York. The irony was, she wasn’t even there. A further irony follows in that whilst a myriad of psychedelic colours are synonymous with the Woodstock nation, one of the most revered choices of dress, clearly shown in the documentary Woodstock (1970) is a simple white leather fringed lace-up tunic-style vest and bell bottom trousers. It is worn by one of the first female rock stars, the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane,…

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    Sean Connery in Dr. No: The Template For 007

    10 Dec ’10

    Deena Appel on the Costume Design of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

    25 Sep ’18

    Diana Rigg in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: To Die For

    24 Jun ’11
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    Goldie Hawn in Cactus Flower: Mini Skirts and Mini Suits

    28 May ’13 /

    Goldie Hawn’s unforgettable debut in hot pants and mini skirts in Cactus Flower.

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    From Tailors with Love Podcast: Discussing the Tom Ford Look

    24 Jan ’20

    Brighton Rock and Mod: Trailer Hits

    24 Nov ’10

    Mad Men: John Slattery in a Double Breasted Suit (S2)

    16 Mar ’11
  • Clothes from 1960s,  Clothes from now,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films

    Norwegian Wood: Hipsters Unmaxed

    8 Jul ’11 /

    Does Japanese period costume reflect on contemporary fashion? We appraise the hipster style of Norwegian Wood.

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    Shifting Trends: Claire Foy in First Man

    25 Oct ’18

    Beautiful Oppression: Tilda Swinton in I am Love

    5 Jun ’15

    Mad Men: Christina Hendricks’ Scarf & Bag Combo (S1)

    14 Jul ’09
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    Kate Hudson in Le Divorce: Love is in the Bag

    10 Jun ’11 /

    Speaking exclusively to Clothes on Film, Le Divorce costume designer Carol Ramsey explains how a Hermès Kelly can be elevated from status symbol to character.

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    Film Review: Knight and Day

    5 Aug ’10

    Review: The American

    15 Oct ’10

    New Burlesque Trailer? Corset Is

    21 Oct ’10
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    Meg Ryan in Proof of Life: Hopeless Hippie

    11 Jan ’11 /

    On Meg Ryan's character Alice, hippie seems like a passing trend rather than a lifestyle choice.

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    Saving Mr. Banks: Costume Design Featurette

    12 Dec ’13

    Janie Bryant Talks Mad Men Season 4: “Glitzy, not so glitzy”

    1 Jul ’10

    Deena Appel on the Costume Design of Austin Powers: Goldmember

    9 Oct ’18
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Film Reviews

    Review: Tron Legacy

    5 Dec ’10 /

    Flourishes of brilliance, but buried beneath disjointed action sequences and a story that fails to make any sense at all.

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    Game of Thrones Costume Analysis: Sansa Stark

    24 Jun ’13

    Clash of The Titans Teaser Trailer Hits and Hits Hard

    11 Nov ’09

    Snow White & the Huntsman Trailer: Atwood Hits It

    11 Nov ’11
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    Tron: Culture and Legacy

    12 Oct ’10 /

    As an artistic influence on everything from fashion to music, Tron has created a cultural cosmos we now term its ‘legacy’.

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    This is Jinsy: Costume Insanity

    23 Sep ’11

    Alice in Wonderland: Four Images to Enchant Thee

    5 Feb ’10

    Dual Analysis: Beetle Juice – KB’s Thoughts

    31 Oct ’09
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    Favourite Fashions From Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

    4 Oct ’10 /

    Less a costume movie and more a fashion one, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is typical of its naughty director Russ Meyer in all the best ways.

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    Black Caesar: Blaxploitation Gangster

    1 Nov ’13

    Saving Mr. Banks: Costume Design Featurette

    12 Dec ’13

    Norwegian Wood: Hipsters Unmaxed

    8 Jul ’11
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    The Big Lebowski: Jeff Bridges in a Pendleton Cardigan

    31 Aug ’10 /

    His Cowichan-type Pendleton cardigan sums up The Dude best of all.

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    Dual Analysis: Rosemary’s Baby – Chris’ Thoughts

    1 Jan ’10

    The Look of Love: Dressing the No-Body Body

    14 Aug ’13

    Get on Up: Sharen Davis Shares Costume Design Sketches

    9 Dec ’14