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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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    Review: The Woman in Black

    10 Feb ’12

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

    12 Aug ’11

    Anna Karenina Coming to Banana Republic: Costume Fashion?

    30 Jun ’12
  • Clothes from 1970s,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films

    The Post Trailer Debuts: Ann Roth sets the Tone

    8 Nov ’17 /

    Costume designer Ann Roth, arguably one of the greatest of her craft still working in Hollywood, has costumed director Steven Spielberg’s latest The Post, and by the looks of this first trailer we are in for a muted treat: What we have are gentlemen sporting classic collar points with moderate spread, sometimes short sleeve (always with a chest pocket – a very American touch) and medium breadth neckties. The occasional kipper, but this 1971 is a very different world than, say, The Deuce (costume designer Anna Terrazas). The seventies may have ushered in increasingly wide flared trousers and oversized lapels but it’s doubtful we’ll see much of those in The…

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    The Passenger: Always at Odds

    2 Nov ’17

    Film Review: Freebie and the Bean

    25 Jul ’09

    Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were: Forties Meets Seventies

    16 May ’11
  • Clothes from 1940s,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    Florence Foster Jenkins: Exclusive Costume Sketches

    4 May ’16 /

    Friday 6th May sees the release of Florence Foster Jenkins, the 1944 set true story of a woman, Ms. Foster Jenkins herself (played by Meryl Streep) who heard nothing but sweet angels in her head, yet couldn’t actually sing for a toffee. Her manager and husband St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) hides the truth during the private recitals, but when Florence agrees to sing live at Carnegie Hall, things begin to get a little tricky… Costume designer for Florence Foster Jenkins is Consolata Boyle, a BAFTA award winner probably best known for her work on The Queen (2006), The Iron Lady (2011), and more recently Philomena (2013) – and yes there…

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    The Star Wattage of Mildred Pierce (1945)

    6 Mar ’17

    Review: Captain America: The First Avenger

    25 Jul ’11

    Inglourious Basterds: Costume Lowdown by Anna Sheppard

    28 Sep ’09
  • Clothes from 1980s,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    Working Girl: The Culture of Power Dressing

    27 Sep ’13 /

    Costume designer Ann Roth’s template for Working Girl (1988, directed by Mike Nichols) is especially astute with regards to the social and geographical make up of its characters. Protagonist Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is a homely girl raised and living in Staten Island, New York. Currently working as a secretary in Manhattan (not ‘executive assistant’, reflecting vernacular of the time), as is her best friend Cynthia (Joan Cusack). Tess, however, has gained a degree through night school and harbours ambitions to use it for more constructive tasks than answering the telephone and fetching toilet paper for bawdy stockbrokers. After being set up for a ‘date’ that turned out to be…

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    Alien Anthology: A Revolution in Sci-Fi Costume Design – PT2

    26 Oct ’10

    Back to the Future Nikes go on Sale: You Can’t Afford Them

    9 Sep ’11

    Dual Analysis: Beetle Juice – Chris’ Thoughts

    27 Oct ’09
  • Film Reviews,  Girls in Films

    Review: Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

    21 Sep ’12 /

    A breezy retrospective of the most famous fashion editor of all time.

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    Review: Melancholia

    21 Oct ’11

    Review: Norwegian Wood

    27 May ’11

    Film Review: Iron Man 2

    3 May ’10
  • Clothes from 1980s,  Girls in Films,  Premium

    Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan

    11 Mar ’11 /

    All the recurring themes in Desperately Seeking Susan are linked to one jacket.

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    Dual Analysis: Beetle Juice – Chris’ Thoughts

    27 Oct ’09

    Coming to America: Prints & Turbans in Contemporary Fashion

    17 Feb ’11

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    26 Oct ’10
  • Clothes from 2000-10,  Clothes from now,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Interviews,  Premium

    The Hangover: More Costume Questions Answered

    16 Apr ’10 /

    Costume designer for The Hangover, Louise Mingenbach, has answered more questions about who wears what in the movie.

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    Film Review: The Boys Are Back

    22 Jan ’10

    Kick-Ass Character Posters: Costumed Superfreaks

    11 Mar ’10

    About Time to Dress Upper Middle Class

    9 May ’14