Piper Perabo chats to Clothes on Film about costume design for her role in Looper. Lord Christopher Laverty 4 Comments 22 Jan ’16 8 Mar ’13 30 Apr ’10

First look at Jenny Beavan’s late Victorian-with-a-twist costumes in action. A prevalent theme in the first episode of Mildred Pierce starring is how domestic costume can be read as a signal for sexual availability. As TracyDi Vicenzo in OHMSS, Diana Rigg wore a daring 1960s wedding ensemble. This coral pink ensemble encompasses and challenges the absolute femininity of Grace Kelly. Old fashioned and sentimental, Water for Elephants still has much to offer with its very readable costume design. This is the most fun and elaborate outfit Grace Kelly wears in To Catch a Thief. The trailer for The Three Musketeers affords the briefest peek at those 17th century costumes. There…

What a busy twelve months it’s been for costume design. Really though, this art, or craft, or business (Deborah Nadoolman Landis insists it is definitely a business) gets more talked about each year. 2013 was especially exciting however as it seemed every month something even more thrilling arrived to fawn over. In the last few weeks alone we have had The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Sleepy Hollow, and now American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street on the horizon. Dipping back further, it was Stoker that got us excited about subtext, The Great Gatsby that slammed the lid on that twenties revival once and for all, and Behind…

What a busy twelve months it’s been for costume design. Really though, this art, or craft, or business (Deborah Nadoolman Landis insists it is definitely a business) gets more talked about each year. 2013 was especially exciting however as it seemed every month something even more thrilling arrived to fawn over. In the last few weeks alone we have had The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Sleepy Hollow, and now American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street on the horizon. Dipping back further, it was Stoker that got us excited about subtext, The Great Gatsby that slammed the lid on that twenties revival once and for all, and Behind…

Throughout The Way We Were, Barbra Streisand wears a mix of period authenticity and contemporary fashion.

Actually that title is a tad misleading – it’s all the clothes worn by Lee Marvin as kick-ass-tough-guy-on-a-mission Walker in Point Blank. This is the second video in a new Clothes on Film feature breaking down costume design in sartorially interesting (or just way cool) movies and, in some cases, television.  Costumed by Margo Weintz, Point Blank is stone-cold neo-noir thriller, one of the best of its kind, focusing on Marvin’s Walker and his score settling against those who double crossed and left him for dead on an abandoned Alcatraz island. The film is known for its sharp suits, which are all covered in the video, but also for some……

Harry subverts his identity to get lost in the crowd during this blistering new trailer for New Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on New Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Trailer is No Drag 21 Dec ’12 11 Nov ’09 25 Sep ’18

Love them or loathe them, every couple of years a new Harry Potter movie ambles along, its young cast gradually coming to resemble the most clean living group of teenagers ever to grace the screen. However all that fun is set to end with the release of final film in the series Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in two parts (2010, 2011), and here, at last, is the trailer. Verdict? If you like Potter, you are going to like this. Cannot say fairer than that. Just as directors of the now seven strong collection have been varied, so too have costume designers. Probably the most important, particularly in relation…

Baby’s ascent to womanhood is showcased through her wardrobe choices. Lord Christopher Laverty 2 Comments 4 Jan ’10 24 Jun ’11 10 May ’13

Of course Rear Window wasn’t all about Grace Kelly… Lord Christopher Laverty 4 Comments 6 Jun ’18 17 Aug ’09 19 Jun ’10