Premium Content | Clothes on Film – Part 5

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The press love Prada’s involvement with The Great Gatsby, but exactly how much does this help the film’s costume design? Continue reading

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Costume designer Jacqueline Durran discusses her unusual approach for Anna Karenina – 1870s Russia via 1950s couture. Continue reading

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Django Unchained costume designer Sharen Davis exclusively explains her work on the film. Continue reading

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Costume in The Cabin in the Woods is not grand, but it is very clever. All the teenage characters subtly evolve from one horror stereotype to another. Continue reading

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The Phantom of the opera demonstrates that the colour, size and shape of a character’s costumes can communicate on a subliminal level. Continue reading

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Deborah Nadoolman Landis discusses her Hollywood Costume exhibition at the V&A. Continue reading

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Ben Affleck’s pseudo-cowboy costume in Argo harks back to the golden age of the sports jacket. Continue reading

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The evolving costumes worn by Sandra Dee in classic sixties gender comedy A Man Answers. Continue reading

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Could Django Unchained be the first Quentin Tarantino movie to win a Costume Design Oscar? Continue reading

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George Lazenby’s fashionable Bond is sartorially similar to Daniel Craig in Skyfall. Continue reading

© 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi, Girls in Films, Interviews, Premium. Tagged 1940s, Burlesque, Clothes from 1980s, Coyote Ugly, high heels, interview, Jeff Daniels, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Looper, Piper Perabo, Premium Content, Rian Johnson, sci-fi, Sharen Davis, Suzie, Young Joe. Bookmark the permalink.

Piper Perabo chats to Clothes on Film about costume design for her role in Looper. Continue reading

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Costume Designer Sharen Davis talks us through her retro-vision for Looper. Continue reading