Well made and well acted, but ruined by a jarring tone. A solitary official image from The Tourist starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. Contemporary costume design by Coleen Atwood. Only daft final act revelations offer release from Scorsese’s cinematic madhouse. Trailer two for Shutter Island hits the net. Leonardo DiCaprio and co revisit serious 1950s fashions. Specialist websites suggest for a Pink Lady we need their jacket and a poodle skirt, but what do the girls really wear and why? Betty ‘Rizzo’ played by Stockard Channing is not only the most complex character in Grease, but in costume terms fascinating. Denim youth culture is not something we readily associate…

Thanks to donations from 600 people, $30,000 has been raised to restore fragile dresses from Gone with the Wind. It was BAFTA/CDG all over again as Sandy Powell won Best Costume Design for The Young Victoria.

If you have never found Star Wars in the least bit kinky before, prepare to loosen your breeches. Full trailer for Luc Besson’s Les Aventures Extraordinaires d’Adele Blanc-Sec is now online. It’s the early 20th Century and ladies wore massive hats. As it is the weekend how about some photos from Universal’s upcoming remake of the The Wolfman.

Old fashioned and sentimental, Water for Elephants still has much to offer with its very readable costume design. Some images and the latest trailer from Water for Elephants. Period costume design by Jacqueline West.

Here’s our round-up of the big three costume design award nominations. Hollywood costume comes to London’s Victoria & Albert Museum in the most exciting exhibition of its type ever announced. By no means intended as an exhaustive list, Clothes on Film ponder an overview of 2011 in costume. A classy, very British affair. Lucie Bates exclusively discusses her work on Hanna, inducing parodies, subtext and working with Giorgio Armani. Looking so sexy that the finished film can be nothing but a huge disappointment, this teaser for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ticks all the right 70’s boxes. This emerald green dress from Atonement could be the most famous item of clothing…

Baby’s ascent to womanhood is showcased through her wardrobe choices. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is too long, the story unfathomable garbage, and even the robots don’t seem that cool anymore.

Old fashioned and sentimental, Water for Elephants still has much to offer with its very readable costume design. Some images and the latest trailer from Water for Elephants. Period costume design by Jacqueline West.

Some images and the latest trailer from Water for Elephants. Period costume design by Jacqueline West. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 4 Jul ’14 10 May ’11 22 Nov ’11

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is too long, the story unfathomable garbage, and even the robots don’t seem that cool anymore.

There are many eye-popping moments in Black Book (2006), aka Zwartboek, though probably the most PG friendly is when Carice van Houten transforms into a Resistance beauty of Jean Harlow-esque proportions wearing an unmissable red halterneck dress. Black Book is a World War II set action thriller directed Paul Verhoeven. Based on true events it charts the story of Ellis de Vries (formally Rachel Stein) played by Carice van Houten, a Jewish singer who joins the Dutch Resistance and then infiltrates the German Gestapo. Ultimately, however, the tide turns as she finds herself branded a traitor by her comrades and forced to go into hiding. It is unquestionably Verhoeven’s best…