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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 12

    © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Muddy looking fantasy fun. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Analysis of Shawna Trpcic’s subtle costume signifiers with input from the designer herself. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake whips out the same suit and hammer. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. UK Lovelace trailer is full of lovely 70’s dresses. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Catch up with the week in costume design. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. We chat to costume designer Gary Jones…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 19

    © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Les Misérables is drenched in costume symbolism, specifically revolutionary red, white and blue. Subtle was never its intention. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. 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 © 2012 Contributor. All rights reserved. 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 © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Deborah Nadoolman Landis discusses her Hollywood Costume…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 27

    © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Think Lulu’s theme song is the loudest thing in The Man with the Golden Gun? Think again. Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Win a pair of tickets to see Madonna’s controversial costume fest W.E. at The London Film Festival on 23rd October. Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. There is a man on Boardwalk Empire with even more sartorial presence than Nucky Thompson; That man is Chalky White. Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Blurry and unofficial, but these are definitely photos of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. Continue reading…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 22

    © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Wes Anderson’s most sartorially significant film yet. Continue reading © 2012 Contributor. All rights reserved. The subtle differentiation of character through costume design in Moon. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. In a week of exciting trailers, the first for director Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby must surely be the most thrilling of all. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. The first trailer for Skyfall hits with several suits, an overcoat, sportswear and a beanie. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Doris Day’s last hurrah for 1950s fashion…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 17

    © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Thanks at least in part to the wintry weather, this week’s costume round up is coats on film. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Meryl Streep’s timeless Burberry trench coat is one of the most recognisable contemporary costumes of 1970s. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. 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. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Teaser trailer for Alpha Papa aka Alan Partridge the movie arrives.…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 14

    © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Win one of five Breaking Bad mobile meth lab t-shirts. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. A 13 minute Man of Steel featurette has just been released discussing the suit. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. This week’s costume design snippets. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick brings Liberace back to life on stage and off. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. The first still from Beauty and the Beast, aka La belle & la bête. Costumes by Pierre-Yves Gayraud. Continue reading…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 20

    © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. A new compilation of sartorially revealing James Bond photographs by Terry O’Neill. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Piper Perabo chats to Clothes on Film about costume design for her role in Looper. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Costume Designer Sharen Davis talks us through her retro-vision for Looper. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Costume designer Margot Wilson talks exclusively to Clothes on Film about her impeccable work on Lawless. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Tom Hardy heralds dawning of the knitwear anti-hero.…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 23

    © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. With so many movie streaming options now available, we thought we’d draw your attention to one of the best: Curzon on Demand. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Betsy Heimann chats exclusively about one of the most iconic costumes of the 1990s. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Judianna Makovsky’s costume design provides an intentional method of understanding The Hunger Games’ politics. Continue reading © 2012 Contributor. All rights reserved. The glamorous look of the mid-1930s threads its way through dual love stories in W.E. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 28

    © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Vanity Fair’s Fashion in Film festival in New York is essential this weekend, if you don’t live 3,500 miles away. Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. A classy, very British affair. Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. The arrival of Scarface on Blu-ray grants ideal opportunity to indulge in Patricia Norris’ exemplary, disco couture costumes. Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Win a Scarface limited edition Blu-ray DVD, scarf and money clip. Three sets to give away. Look as tasteless as Tony! Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All…

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    Vegas | Clothes on Film

    © 2009 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 2000-10, Film Reviews, Guys in Films. Tagged Bradley Cooper, Heather Graham, Todd Phillips, Vegas, Zach Galifianakis. Bookmark the permalink. If only real hangovers were this much fun. Continue reading