© 2009, Clothes on Film 4 Dec ’09 Filed under News. Tagged Antoine Fuqua, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, flat cap, gangsters, Juliet Polcsa, leather, Richard Gere, sportswear, Wesley Snipes. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Check out the trailer HERE A thumping good trailer for Brooklyn’s Finest starring Richard Gere and Don Cheadle has hit town. Write this off as ’just another cop drama’ at your peril. Straightaway there are overtones of influential nineties crime thriller New Jack City (1990) with branded sportswear, expensive loose fit shirts, 1920s-30’s style hats and heavy bling. Plus note how leather is used to signify the dark side of human…

© 2009, Clothes on Film 17 Aug ’09 Filed under Clothes from 1950s, Girls in Films. Tagged biker leather jacket, Clothes from 1950s, costume, denim, Elvis, Jeans, pencil skirt, Pink Ladies, strappy dress. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Teenage, 50’s diner-style wear at its stereotypical best. Save for it’s funky 70’s Barry Gibb disco theme tune, you might be forgiven for thinking it was 1959 at Rydell High. Grease (1978) bursts with pep, which the company to this day pertain to be genuine fun. They spent all day in character on set; obvious to the viewer as the chemistry between everyone at Rydell is so…

© 2009, Clothes on Film 17 Aug ’09 Filed under Clothes from 1950s, Girls in Films. Tagged biker leather jacket, Clothes from 1950s, costume, denim, Elvis, Jeans, pencil skirt, Pink Ladies, strappy dress. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Teenage, 50’s diner-style wear at its stereotypical best. Save for it’s funky 70’s Barry Gibb disco theme tune, you might be forgiven for thinking it was 1959 at Rydell High. Grease (1978) bursts with pep, which the company to this day pertain to be genuine fun. They spent all day in character on set; obvious to the viewer as the chemistry between everyone at Rydell is so…

© 2009, Clothes on Film 17 Aug ’09 Filed under Clothes from 1950s, Girls in Films. Tagged biker leather jacket, Clothes from 1950s, costume, denim, Elvis, Jeans, pencil skirt, Pink Ladies, strappy dress. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Teenage, 50’s diner-style wear at its stereotypical best. Save for it’s funky 70’s Barry Gibb disco theme tune, you might be forgiven for thinking it was 1959 at Rydell High. Grease (1978) bursts with pep, which the company to this day pertain to be genuine fun. They spent all day in character on set; obvious to the viewer as the chemistry between everyone at Rydell is so…

© 2009, Clothes on Film 17 Aug ’09 Filed under Clothes from 1950s, Girls in Films. Tagged biker leather jacket, Clothes from 1950s, costume, denim, Elvis, Jeans, pencil skirt, Pink Ladies, strappy dress. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Teenage, 50’s diner-style wear at its stereotypical best. Save for it’s funky 70’s Barry Gibb disco theme tune, you might be forgiven for thinking it was 1959 at Rydell High. Grease (1978) bursts with pep, which the company to this day pertain to be genuine fun. They spent all day in character on set; obvious to the viewer as the chemistry between everyone at Rydell is so…

© 2009, Clothes on Film 17 Aug ’09 Filed under Clothes from 1950s, Girls in Films. Tagged biker leather jacket, Clothes from 1950s, costume, denim, Elvis, Jeans, pencil skirt, Pink Ladies, strappy dress. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Teenage, 50’s diner-style wear at its stereotypical best. Save for it’s funky 70’s Barry Gibb disco theme tune, you might be forgiven for thinking it was 1959 at Rydell High. Grease (1978) bursts with pep, which the company to this day pertain to be genuine fun. They spent all day in character on set; obvious to the viewer as the chemistry between everyone at Rydell is so…

© 2009, Clothes on Film 17 Aug ’09 Filed under Clothes from 1950s, Girls in Films. Tagged biker leather jacket, Clothes from 1950s, costume, denim, Elvis, Jeans, pencil skirt, Pink Ladies, strappy dress. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Teenage, 50’s diner-style wear at its stereotypical best. Save for it’s funky 70’s Barry Gibb disco theme tune, you might be forgiven for thinking it was 1959 at Rydell High. Grease (1978) bursts with pep, which the company to this day pertain to be genuine fun. They spent all day in character on set; obvious to the viewer as the chemistry between everyone at Rydell is so…

© 2010 Chris Laverty. All rights reserved. Really though, there were no big surprises in the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. Apart from The Hurt Locker winning Best Picture, that was huge. As this is a movie costume website, however, we shall start with that. It was BAFTA/CDG all over again as Sandy Powell won Best Costume Design for The Young Victoria. Well, we did say there were no big surprises. Cannot fault Sandy Powell and her team for their incredibly detailed work on a movie that, frankly, demanded it, but when will the Academy reward costume design that isn’t period? Do casual moviegoers even realise that ‘costume’ is whatever a…

© 2009, Clothes on Film 17 Aug ’09 Filed under Clothes from 1950s, Girls in Films. Tagged biker leather jacket, Clothes from 1950s, costume, denim, Elvis, Jeans, pencil skirt, Pink Ladies, strappy dress. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Teenage, 50’s diner-style wear at its stereotypical best. Save for it’s funky 70’s Barry Gibb disco theme tune, you might be forgiven for thinking it was 1959 at Rydell High. Grease (1978) bursts with pep, which the company to this day pertain to be genuine fun. They spent all day in character on set; obvious to the viewer as the chemistry between everyone at Rydell is so…

© 2009, Clothes on Film 17 Aug ’09 Filed under Clothes from 1950s, Girls in Films. Tagged biker leather jacket, Clothes from 1950s, costume, denim, Elvis, Jeans, pencil skirt, Pink Ladies, strappy dress. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Teenage, 50’s diner-style wear at its stereotypical best. Save for it’s funky 70’s Barry Gibb disco theme tune, you might be forgiven for thinking it was 1959 at Rydell High. Grease (1978) bursts with pep, which the company to this day pertain to be genuine fun. They spent all day in character on set; obvious to the viewer as the chemistry between everyone at Rydell is so…