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  • 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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    Film Review: Chinatown

    19 Oct ’09

    Johnny Depp in Public Enemies: Costume as Plot

    12 Apr ’11

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

    29 Mar ’11
  • 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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    Back to the Future Nikes go on Sale: You Can’t Afford Them

    9 Sep ’11

    Argo: Interview with Costume Designer Jacqueline West

    16 Feb ’13

    Costume, Colour and Semiotics of Heathers

    4 Oct ’13
  • Clothes from 1930s,  Clothes from 1990s,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    The Secret Sharer: Abbie Cornish & Andrea Riseborough in W.E.

    20 Mar ’12 /

    The glamorous look of the mid-1930s threads its way through dual love stories in W.E.

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    Mildred Pierce: Uniform Appeal

    1 Dec ’11

    King Kong: Naomi Watts’ Pink Slip

    6 Oct ’09

    HBO Sessions Video: Clothes on Film Discuss Mildred Pierce

    21 Nov ’11
  • Clothes from 1940s,  Clothes from 1950s,  Girls in Films,  Premium

    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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    Pollock: Ed Harris in Paint Splattered Denim

    15 Feb ’11

    Captain America: The First Trailer

    24 Mar ’11

    Costuming The Dressmaker

    9 Nov ’15
  • 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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    Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were: Forties Meets Seventies

    16 May ’11

    Florence Foster Jenkins: Exclusive Costume Sketches

    4 May ’16

    Cinema Paradiso: Invisible Costume

    9 Feb ’15
  • Girls in Films,  News,  Pre-Victorian

    Milla Jovovich Tweets Herself in Three Musketeers Costume

    5 Jul ’10 /

    Milla Jovovich has released three pics of herself on Twitter wearing costumes from The Three Musketeers.

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    Brigbsy Bear: Interview with Costume Designer Sarah Mae Burton

    14 Aug ’17

    Lindy Hemming Talks Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style

    15 Jun ’12

    The Fashionable Style of Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone

    1 Jan ’20