September | 2012 | Clothes on Film

© 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi, Girls in Films, Guys in Films, Interviews, Premium. Tagged Academy Award, Bruce Willis, Clothes from 1920s, Clothes from 1970s, Clothes from 1980s, Django Unchained, Dreamgirls, Eisenhower jacket, Emily Blunt, Gatman, Ike, interview, Jeff Daniels, Jospeh Gordon-Levitt, leather jacket, Looper, Piper Perabo, Premium Content, Rian Johnson, Roaring twenties, sci-fi, Sharen Davis, The Depression, The Help, tie. Bookmark the permalink.

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

© 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1920s, Clothes from 1930s, Girls in Films, Guys in Films, Interviews, Premium. Tagged Boardwalk Empire, Clothes from 1920s, Clothes from 1930s, colour, distressed, dress, gangster, Gary Oldman, gauntlet cuff, gloves, green dress, Guy Pearce, Hardigan, interview, Jason Clarke, Jessica Chastain, John Hillcoat, knitwear, Lawless, Margot Wilson, Mia Wasikowska, Premium Content, red dress, Shia Labouf, suit, Tom Hardy, velvet. Bookmark the permalink.

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. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1920s, Clothes from 1930s, Guys in Films, Interviews, Premium. Tagged 1800s, Boardwalk Empire, cardigan, Cary Grant, Clothes from 1920s, Clothes from 1930s, Crieman War, dandy, fabric, Forrest Bondurant, gangster, Hardigan, homemade, James Dean, James Thomas Brudenell, Jason Clarke, John Hillcoat, knitwear, Lawless, Margot Wilson, Marlon Brando, masculinity, Premium Content, Rebel Without a Cause, rural, Shia Labouf, sweater coat, The Wild One, To Catch a Thief, Tom Hardy. Bookmark the permalink.

Tom Hardy heralds dawning of the knitwear anti-hero. Margot Wilson discusses her use of the cardigan for Lawless. Continue reading

© 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Film Reviews, Girls in Films. Tagged 1960s, Ali MacGraw, Carmel Snow, Clothes from 1920s, coat, costume, Diana Vreeland, fashion, Harper’s Bazaar, La Belle Époque, New Look, New York, Roaring twenties, The Eye Has to Travel, The Metropolitan Museum, Vogue. Bookmark the permalink.

A breezy retrospective of the most famous fashion editor of all time. Continue reading

© 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi, Film Reviews, Girls in Films, Guys in Films. Tagged 1990s, Batman, Blade Runner, Bruce Willis, check shirt, Clothes from 1980s, coat, Django Unchained, Emily Blunt, gangster, hat, Inception, Jeff Daniels, Jeffery Kurland, Jospeh Gordon-Levitt, leather jacket, Looper, neck tie, Rian Johnson, sci-fi, Sharen Davis, The Brothers Bloom, The Help, The Matrix, Tim Burton. Bookmark the permalink.

A mishmash of sci-fi conventions and clichés cobbled together as something we have never quite seen before. Continue reading

© 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1837-1919, Girls in Films, Interviews, Premium. Tagged 19th century, 20th century, Alain Guffroy, Alice Barnole, Anaïs Romand, Belle Époque, Bertrand Bonello, corset, cotton, Danièle Boutard, Hafsia Herzi, House of Tolerance, Iliana Zabeth, Josée Deshaies, L’Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close, linen, Madeleine, Noémie Lvovsky, Premium Content, red dress, S bend corset, silk, stay, stockings, underwear. Bookmark the permalink.

French costume designer Anaïs Romand discusses her work on House of Tolerance (L’Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close). Continue reading