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  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    Journeying Into the Costumes of Into the Woods

    9 Mar ’15 /

    Into the Woods opened on Broadway in 1987, with the music and lyrics written by Stephen Sondheim and the book by James Lapine. It is Sondheim’s most performed musical and one of his best known works. The story combines familiar characters from childhood fairy tales such as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and the ubiquitous Witch, and explores their journeys to get their wish, as well as the negative consequences of the small dishonesties committed by each character to get what they want. As the witch sings, “Told a little lie/Stole a little gold/Broke a little vow/Did you?/Had to get your prince/Had to get your cow/Had to get your wish/Doesn’t…

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    Seventh Son Trailer: Filthy Fantasy

    12 Jul ’13

    Review: Avengers Assemble

    20 Apr ’12

    Brigsby Bear: Interview with Suit Creators Stoopid Buddy Stoodios

    28 Jul ’17
  • Clothes from 1980s,  Clothes from 1990s,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    Internal Affairs: A Black and White World

    6 Dec ’14 /

    Internal Affairs (1990) is an excellent stone cold thriller. The costumes are a subtle tease, revealing personal information that the characters never say out loud. Like many movies released in the late 1980s/1990s, Internal Affairs radiates uneasiness caused by shifting societal attitudes – anything that threatens a straight male chauvinist black-and-white world. Costume designer Rudy Dillon punches through this black-and-white world with ensembles that poke fun at the status quo and subsequently subvert them with eroticism, perhaps ironically using only a colour scheme of black and white. The straight white male chauvinist is Dennis Peck (Richard Gere), a police officer in Los Angeles who controls his colleagues by involving them…

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    Ellen Mirojnick Describes Costumes for Behind the Candelabra

    7 Jun ’13

    Scarface: Dress and Excess

    5 Sep ’11

    Hot Tub Time Machine Trailer: Colourful Past

    25 Dec ’09
  • Clothes from 1950s,  Girls in Films

    Costume & Identity in Hitchcock’s Vertigo

    10 Apr ’12 /

    Edith Head’s costume design for Vertigo demonstrates the power of clothes in forming identities on-screen.

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    New Shutter Island Trailer Debuts: Serious Fifties Costumes

    3 Oct ’09

    Doris Day in Pillow Talk: Couture Allure

    18 May ’12

    To Catch a Thief: Grace Kelly’s Beach Wear

    5 Apr ’11
  • Clothes from 2000-10,  Clothes from now,  Girls in Films,  Girls on TV,  Guys in Films,  Guys on TV,  Premium

    Noomi Rapace in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    8 Dec ’11 /

    Playing computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, Noomi Rapace embodies the character in such a way that picturing anyone else in the role is nearly impossible.

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    Scott Pilgrim vs The World Trailer Arrives on Fire

    25 Mar ’10

    Kick-Ass Character Posters: Costumed Superfreaks

    11 Mar ’10

    Inception: Costume Style Analysis VLOG

    19 Aug ’20
  • Clothes from now,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  News

    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Full Costume Trailer

    24 Sep ’11 /

    Rooney Mara’s Lisbeth will be a style icon.

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    Sleepy Hollow: Q&A with Costume Designer Kristin M. Burke

    4 Feb ’14

    Eastern Promises: Viggo Mortensen’s Double Breasted Suit

    3 Jun ’09

    Realism through Identity: Clothing in The Last of Us

    30 Nov ’13
  • Clothes from 1930s,  Clothes from 1940s,  Girls in Films,  Premium

    Monica Bellucci as Malèna: Beauty, Black and Heels

    26 Aug ’11 /

    In Malèna, Monica Bellucci plays an impossible vision of beauty; a woman so striking she is immediately sexualised by all who lay eyes on her.

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    Win Tickets to W.E. at the London Film Festival

    4 Oct ’11

    Johnny Depp in Public Enemies: Costume as Plot

    12 Apr ’11

    UK Film Review: Public Enemies

    1 Jul ’09
  • Clothes from 1837-1919,  Girls in Films,  Premium

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

    12 Aug ’11 /

    Adèle Blanc-Sec’s world is akin to a fantasy Belle Époque; 1910s attire dotted among reanimated corpses and a dinosaur.

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    Anna Karenina Coming to Banana Republic: Costume Fashion?

    30 Jun ’12

    Costume Designer Joanna Johnston Talks Lincoln & Jack

    8 Feb ’13

    Anna Karenina: Jacqueline Durran Talks Jewellery & Costume

    11 Jan ’13
  • 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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    X-Men: First Class Trailer

    11 Feb ’11

    Blaxploitation Dress Codes in 1970s Cinema

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

    25 Sep ’18