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    Costume Stories: This Week, FIDM and Breaking Bad

    3 Aug ’13 /

    Costume design reduced to stories and links.

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    Costume Round Up: Get Your Coat

    23 Mar ’13

    Costume Stories: This Week, The Butler and Evil Dead

    17 Aug ’13

    Costume Stories: This Week, Gatsby and Capitol Couture

    20 Apr ’13
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Guys in Films

    Man of Steel: New Featurette Discusses the Superman Suit

    3 Jun ’13 /

    A 13 minute Man of Steel featurette has just been released discussing the suit.

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    Get Engaged by Twilight: A Merchandising Step Too Far?

    30 Apr ’10

    Prince of Persia: Firsthand Look at the Costumes

    11 Jun ’10

    Inception: Costume Style Analysis VLOG

    19 Aug ’20
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Guys in Films

    Latest Man of Steel Trailer: The Dark Suit in Action

    17 Apr ’13 /

    The latest trailer for Man of Steel makes for one very dark Superman costume.

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    First Look: Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man

    13 Jan ’11

    First Look at Captain America: The Winter Soldier Costume

    12 Jun ’13

    Film Review: Kick-Ass

    13 Mar ’10
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Costume Stories and Links,  Premium

    Costume Round Up: Suited for Space

    16 Mar ’13 /

    With the trailer for After Earth revealing an intriguing ‘life suit’ worn by Jaden Smith, we round up the best space suit related posts from our archive.

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    Infinity War Costume Design: The Unfamiliar Familiar

    4 May ’18

    New Trailer for Tenet, aka The Best Film Ever Made

    23 May ’20

    Snow White & the Huntsman Trailer: Atwood Hits It

    11 Nov ’11
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Interviews,  Premium

    Prometheus: Exclusive Interview with Costume Designer Janty Yates

    4 Jun ’12 /

    Clothes on Film have an exclusive chat with Academy Award winning costume designer Janty Yates about her work on Prometheus.

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    Iron Man 2: Some Late in the Day Images

    22 Apr ’10

    Star Trek Into Darkness: The Devil is in the Details

    9 May ’13

    Eiko Ishioka: Trapped in Her Own imagination

    15 Jul ’13
  • Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Premium

    How to Read Costume on Film

    19 Apr ’11 /

    Editor Chris Laverty explains how to ‘read’ costume on film. From an article originally published in Moviescope magazine.

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    Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan

    11 Mar ’11

    Film Review: Risky Business

    16 Jul ’09

    Carice van Houten in Black Book: The Red Dress

    21 Sep ’10
  • News

    Costume Designers Guild Nominations: 2011

    21 Jan ’11 /

    The Costume Designers Guild (CDG) has served up their nominations for this year.

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    Kick-Ass Character Posters: Costumed Superfreaks

    11 Mar ’10

    Steamy Sucker Punch Trailer Hits

    5 Nov ’10

    The Tourist Trailer Hits: Continental Couture

    16 Sep ’10
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Film Reviews

    Review: Tron Legacy

    5 Dec ’10 /

    Flourishes of brilliance, but buried beneath disjointed action sequences and a story that fails to make any sense at all.

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    Disney’s Cinderella Trailer: The Costumes of Sandy Powell

    21 Nov ’14

    Scott Pilgrim vs The World Trailer Arrives on Fire

    25 Mar ’10

    Journeying Into the Costumes of Into the Woods

    9 Mar ’15
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Competitions

    Preview Tickets for Tron Legacy! Two Pairs to Give Away!

    22 Nov ’10 /

    Tron Legacy arrives in UK cinemas on 17th December, but you can see it over two weeks early! We have TWO PAIRS of tickets to give away to a screening in London’s West End on Thursday 2nd December at 6.00 pm. If that is not an early Christmas present then we don’t know what is. As you are doubtlessly aware, Tron Legacy is the story of 27 year old Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) searching for his missing father Kevin (Jeff Bridges), once the world’s leading video game designer, in a high-tech cyber universe – the ‘Grid’ – where he has been trapped for twenty years. Help comes in the form…

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    Interview with 47 Ronin Costume Designer Penny Rose

    2 Jun ’14

    Iron Man 3: A Different Kind of Suit

    24 Apr ’13

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

    26 Oct ’10
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Interviews,  Premium

    Tron Legacy: Light Suit Costume

    9 Nov ’10 /

    We examine the design of the Tron Legacy light suits in detail including their creation, construction and symbolism.

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

    9 Sep ’11

    Woman Inherits the Earth: Femininity in Jurassic World

    19 Jun ’15

    Film Review: Iron Man 2

    3 May ’10
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Girls in Films,  News

    Steamy Sucker Punch Trailer Hits

    5 Nov ’10 /

    The full trailer for Sucker Punch has arrived in all its steampunk, cutsey, fairytale and ass kicking glory.

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    King Kong: Naomi Watts’ White Evening Dress

    23 Oct ’09

    After Earth Trailer Lands: First Proper Look at ‘Life Suit’

    8 Mar ’13

    Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

    26 Nov ’10
  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi,  Girls in Films,  Guys in Films,  Interviews,  Premium

    Tron: Culture and Legacy

    12 Oct ’10 /

    As an artistic influence on everything from fashion to music, Tron has created a cultural cosmos we now term its ‘legacy’.

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

    26 Oct ’10

    Kick-Ass Character Posters: Costumed Superfreaks

    11 Mar ’10

    New Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Trailer is No Drag

    23 Sep ’10
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