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  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Premium

    Four Slices of Costume Pie from the Star Wars VII Trailer

    28 Nov ’14 /

    There is little point in Clothes on Film delving too deeply into the first trailer for director J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars sequel The Force Awakens, mainly because it is just so much speculation at the moment, which of course is part of the fun, but also because there are far smarter (or more interested) minds on the Internet who will do a better job. That said how can you watch that trailer and not have an opinion? So here are ours, and with no contribution whatsoever from Star Wars VII costume designer Michael Kaplan. If he told us anything at this stage he would be thrown in the Sarlacc pit…

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    1 Aug ’14

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    1 Oct ’12
  • Clothes from 1970s,  Clothes from 1980s,  Premium

    Style Icon of the Season: Cousin Eddie in Christmas Vacation

    18 Dec ’13 /

    He is the whitest of the white trash, the kind of man who dumps raw sewage in a storm drain and kidnaps your boss as a Christmas present. And the only man to ever combine a leather belt with a bathrobe. Randy Quaid has played lovable moocher ‘Cousin Eddie’ in four separate National Lampoon films, but his most famous performance still resides at yuletide. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989, directed by Jeremiah C. Chechik) has weathered years of apathy to become something of a seasonal favourite. Watching Chevy Chase’s bipolar family man Clark Griswold lose his rag every December is now a festive tradition . Yet Clark is not really…

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    Brigbsy Bear: Interview with Costume Designer Sarah Mae Burton

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  • Costume Stories and Links,  Guys in Films

    Costume Stories: This Week, Arrested Development & Star Wars

    25 May ’13 /

    This week’s other costume design stories and links.

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