© 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from now, Guys in Films, News. Tagged Bryan Cranston, Carey Mulligan, Drive, Erin Benach, gloves, jacket, Nicolas Winding Refn, Ryan Gosling, satin. Bookmark the permalink. “It is really a film *about* gloves” Continue reading

© 2010 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1920s, Girls in Films, Guys in Films, News. Tagged Clothes from 1920s, Clothes from 1930s, Edward G. Robinson, flapper, gangster, HBO, James Cagney, John Dunn, Mad Men, Martin Scorsese, Michael K? Williams, prohibition era, silk necktie, stiff collar. Bookmark the permalink. The full trailer for HBO’s Boardwalk Empire arrives. Period costume fans, set your jaw to dropped. Continue reading

© 2009 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1950s, Guys in Films, Premium. Tagged Brooks Brothers, Cary Grant, Glen check, Hitchcock, Kilgour, North by Northwest, oxblood shoes, Premium Content, Savile Row. Bookmark the permalink. This stylish grey Glen check suit from North by Northwest is certainly his most well known. Continue reading

© 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi, Girls on TV, Guys on TV, Interviews. Tagged armour, Clothes on Film, colour, Dothraki, Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones, Grecian dress, HBO, interview, Michele Clapton, Sean Bean, Sky Atlantic, Thronecast, tribal, Winterfell. Bookmark the permalink. Clothes on Film on the costume design for HBO’s immense fantasy series, Game of Thrones. Continue reading

© 2009 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1837-1919, News. Tagged cravat, frock coat, Guy Ritchie, Jude Law, lounge suit, Robert Downey Jr, stiff collar, Victorian. Bookmark the permalink. The costume style adopted by the movie – which is proving unusual to say the least. Continue reading

© 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under News. Tagged Academy Award, Alice in Wonderland, Amy Westcott, BAFTA, Black Swan, Boardwalk Empire, CDG, Coleen Atwood, Costume Designers Guild, Halle Berry, Inception, Jeffery Kurland, Jenny Beavan, Joel Schumacher, John Dunn, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Lacoste, Lisa Padovani, Lou Eyrich, Michael Dennison, Rodarte, The Kings Speech. Bookmark the permalink. Costume designer Amy Westcott has finally been rewarded for her work on Black Swan with a CDG Award. Continue reading

© 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Girls in Films, Guys in Films, News. Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Atonement, Avatar, Christopher Frayling, contemporary, costume, Deborah L Scott, Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Edith Head, exhibition, Fight Club, gingham dress, Hollywood Costume, identity, Jacqueline Durran, Keith Lodwick, Marilyn Monroe, Mayes Rubeo, Meryl Streep, Michael Kaplan, motion capture, period, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Robert De Niro, Ruth Morley, Some Like it Hot, The Birds, The Dark Knight, The Wizard of Oz, V&A. Bookmark the permalink. Hollywood costume comes to London’s Victoria & Albert Museum in the most exciting exhibition of its type ever announced. Continue reading

© 2010 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 2000-10, Clothes from now, Girls in Films, News. Tagged Amy Westcott, ballet, Black Swan, colour, costume, Darren Aronofsky, gender, identity, Jack Brown, Laura and Kate Mulleavy, London Film Festival, Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Rodarte, Vincent Cassel, Yumiko, Zack Brown. Bookmark the permalink. We have it on good authority that Black Swan is ‘spectacular’ so here are some striking images to get you in ‘that place’. Continue reading

© 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1920s, Girls in Films, Guys in Films, News. Tagged Academy Award, Baz Luhrmann, Brooks Brothers, Carey Mulligan, Catherine Martin, Clothes from 1920s, F. Scott Fitzgerald, fashion, flapper, Leonardo diCaprio, Miu Miu, Miuccia Prada, Prada, Roaring twenties, suit, The Great Gatsby. Bookmark the permalink. The best kept secret in costume design is finally out: Prada made Carey Mulligan’s gowns for The Great Gatsby. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1837-1919, Clothes from now, Girls in Films, News. Tagged 19th century, Anna Karenina, Banana Republic, Colleen…

© 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from now, Film Reviews, Guys in Films. Tagged American Gigolo, Bryan Cranston, Carey Mulligan, Drive, Driver, driving gloves, Erin Benach, gloves, jacket, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jeans, Kinnemaniac, Le Samourai, leather, Nicolas Winding Refn, Richard Gere, Ryan Gosling, satin, scorpion jacket, Simon Kinnear, Steve McQueen, synthetic. Bookmark the permalink. For a guy who prefers the synthetic appeal of satin and alloy, physical contact is a violent business. Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1920s, Girls on TV, Guys on TV, Interviews, News, Premium. Tagged Boardwalk Empire, Burlesque,…