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Long and Lean: The Silhouette of High Rise
Or when your costumes look like a building. Odile Dicks-Mireaux’s designs for High Rise (2016) are far more than that. But for a film set in such a heavily stylised world, especially one created by sci-fi author J.G. Ballard, homogeny is everything. In fact homogeny is terrifying. Everything is reflected in the aesthetic. The building towers, Tom Hiddleston’s trouser legs tower, and Luke Evans towers over everyone. Director Ben Wheatley has claimed that he did not want High Rise to look like a ‘greatest hits of the seventies‘, but really that’s exactly what he’s got, certainly in terms of costume design – and that’s okay. It might not be the…
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War Horse: Interview with Costume Designer Joanna Johnston
Clothes on Film had an exclusive conversation with costume designer Joanna Johnston about her work on War Horse.
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War Horse: Exclusive Interview with Kathleen Kennedy
Kathleen Kennedy chats exclusively to Clothes on Film about her experiences and understanding of costume design.
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Review: War Horse
Costume designer Joanna Johnston has recreated WW1 with staunch accuracy.
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New Thor Pic: Now Hopkins & Hiddleston
No, Thor is not a musical.