The 1945 cinematic adaptation of Mildred Pierce, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring, of course,… Analysing the sometimes tense relationship between fashion and costume design. The 1930s was the couture decade that introduced the evening dress in its now familiar…

The latest MCU smash-hit, Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), features one of the strangest villains… With Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), costume designer Deena Appel created one of… MILD SPOILERS Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) is far and away the most ‘A… SPOILERS For anyone with an eye to costume, The Avengers: Infinity War (2018) seemingly takes… MINOR SPOILERS There are already lots of good interviews with Star Wars: The Last Jedi… Despite being set in the present day, the world of Brigsby Bear (2017, directed by… MINOR SPOILERS Okja (2017) is the second film that costume designer Catherine George has worked… There are already a lot…

‘Fashion in Film’ by Christopher Laverty – available now. Clothes on Film was launched by me, Christopher Laverty, in June, 2009. It’s intention was and remains to celebrate the art (or craft? There’s a future debate) of costume design in film and television. I have always been interested in costume design, though apart from a brief stint in theatre, I’ve never practically worked in the field. My knowledge is all theoretical and analytical. I am very lucky to have met, interviewed and can call friend some of the best and brightest costume designers in the business. I have learned so much about what the process involves and continue to do…

Cinema Paradiso is a beautiful examination of the relationship human beings have with film. This… In the very opening scene of Rocky (1976, costume designer Robert Cambel), we see the… This is part 2 (part 1 HERE) of an expanded article Clothes on Film editor… The following is an expanded article Clothes on Film editor Christopher Laverty wrote for men’s… We may have to eat our words, but as it stands 12 Years a Slave… MILD SPOILERS Costume designer Michael Wilkinson’s main accomplishment with American Hustle has largely been overlooked… This is a personal post about designing my custom made James Bond shirt. It is… Filmmaker and costume designer Sophie…

As a new feature for Clothes on Film, we will uploading regular videos (say every… The latest MCU smash-hit, Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), features one of the strangest villains… SPOILERS THROUGHOUT Clearly Us (2019) director Jordan Peele is as interested in the craft of… SPOILERS THROUGHOUT Having recently finished a six week, six episode run on the BBC, John… MINOR SPOILERS First Man (2018) is not a movie overly preoccupied with fashion, And why… MINOR SPOILERS For all the inevitable chrysalis transformation of singer Ally (Lady Gaga) during A… Goldmember (2002, directed by Jay Roach), the final film (so far) in the Austin Powers… The second installment (part one…

Ruth E. Carter’s work on Do the Right Thing is a masterclass in how costume… Hollywood costume comes to London’s Victoria & Albert Museum in the most exciting exhibition of… Clothes on Film talk exclusively to costume designer of The Artist, Mark Bridges. Mark Bridges exclusively explains his costume choices for retro epic Boogie Nights. Anna May Wong fused East and West against an ill-equipped backdrop of Hollywood cinema. Rooney Mara’s Lisbeth will be a style icon. Costume wise, This is Jinsy is deliberately bizarre and mismatched. Yet everything makes sense in… Clothes on Film chats exclusively to Anna B. Sheppard about her work on Captain America:… Some of the…

Filmmaker Nic Fforde discusses how he come to realise the importance of costume design in… Clothes on Film were fortunate enough to be invited to a display of costumes from… Amongst staggering aural and visual assault, perhaps one of the quietest aspects of Dunkirk (2017,… Despite being set in the present day, the world of Brigsby Bear (2017, directed by… Daphne du Maurier’s original novel My Cousin Rachel apparently does not specify the exact period… There are already a lot of excellent interviews with Oscar winning Beauty and the Beast… MILD SPOILERS Director Ben Wheatley’s latest, Free Fire, is set in Boston, 1978, but was… To tie-in with the release…

Clothes on Film talk exclusively to Emmy award winning costume designer Joan Bergin about her extraordinary work on The Tudors, discussing codpieces, modern day fashion influences, nipples and more. It’s video so you won’t even need your reading glasses. The Tudors, or Dynasty with ruffs if you will, is a four season period drama series starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIII, perhaps England’s most eligible monarch in history (on paper at least). His stunning clothes of silk brocade and leather were made by costume designer Joan Bergin (The Prestige). The sheer scale of the project was incredible, with cast of 110 and countless extras requiring, in Joan’s own…

In Malèna, Monica Bellucci plays an impossible vision of beauty; a woman so striking she… Clothes on Film chats exclusively to Anna B. Sheppard about her work on Captain America:… Some of the finest superhero costume design ever committed to film. The first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of War Horse gallops online and it looks… La Femme Nikita re-defines the little black dress on film.

Who could ever suggest James Bond never puts a foot wrong sartorially? While it tends to be Roger Moore’s seventies incarnation receiving most disdain, this baby blue towelling playsuit worn by Sean Connery in Goldfinger (1964, directed by Guy Hamilton) is commonly remembered as the actor’s one costume disaster. Yet, seen in period context and motion, plus modelled by one of the most handsome gentlemen who ever graced the screen, it might be worthy of reconsideration. Worn for the film’s first post-credits scene, whereby Bond is introduced, informally, to megalomaniac villain Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe), this diminutive, crotch wrangling ‘beach wear’ is not especially typical for the time. Here featuring…