Part two of our essay looking at sartorial identity in Sons of Anarchy, featuring exclusive insight from series costume designer Kelli Jones. Catch up with part 1 HERE. The women of SAMCRO include porn stars and pole dancers, but the club matriarch is Gemma played by Katey Sagal, formerly known as Peg Bundy in Married with Children. Gemma is the Queen of this world so her look is regal rock chick, “to make her look badass without looking like a slut. This sexy mama bitch doesn’t need to TRY” costume designer Kelli Jones says. With her background in music (she has performed with the likes of Bette Midler, Gene Simmons……

Part two of our essay looking at sartorial identity in Sons of Anarchy, featuring exclusive insight from series costume designer Kelli Jones. Catch up with part 1 HERE. The women of SAMCRO include porn stars and pole dancers, but the club matriarch is Gemma played by Katey Sagal, formerly known as Peg Bundy in Married with Children. Gemma is the Queen of this world so her look is regal rock chick, “to make her look badass without looking like a slut. This sexy mama bitch doesn’t need to TRY” costume designer Kelli Jones says. With her background in music (she has performed with the likes of Bette Midler, Gene Simmons……

To celebrate the release of Oz the Great and Powerful, here is a round up of the best fantasy costume posts at Clothes on Film. Disney has just released a new international trailer for Brave. Delightful, it is. Clothes on Film caught up with Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich for an exclusive interview. Ken’s camptastic wardrobe was on the agenda. Esquire have featured a fashion shoot with Ken from Toy Story 3. That’s right; a doll dresses better than you. Win tickets! If you can get to London on Sunday 20th June, you could be watching Toy Story 3 at a very early screening. A new clip of Toy…

Neo-noir is an unusual genre from a costume perspective because although rooted in reality it is generally not specific to one era or setting. This means a variety of influences fill the screen incorporating past, present and future suggesting a particular story could be told anywhere at any time. Yet with noir’s literary and cinematic heyday belonging to 1940s, certain period details are necessary in order to satisfy that vital element of the genre and its all subsidiaries: atmosphere. The Grifters (1990, directed by Stephen Frears) is about as bleak as noir gets. Its central characters are shysters; they live on the wrong side of the law, fleece the innocent…

It’s those Captain America costume pics! Later than everyone else! Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 9 Nov ’10 27 Jun ’13 24 Aug ’09

Second and final part of our retrospective of The Grifters with insight from Mark Bridges. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on The Grifters: Be Careful What You Wear – Part 2 25 Sep ’18 28 May ’10 26 Oct ’10 First in our two part retrospective of neo-noir classic The Grifters with exclusive insight from the film’s assistant costume designer Mark Bridges. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 8 Sep ’09 6 Feb ’17 20 Jun ’13

Trailer two for Shutter Island hits the net. Leonardo DiCaprio and co revisit serious 1950s fashions.

Trailer two for Shutter Island hits the net. Leonardo DiCaprio and co revisit serious 1950s fashions. Lord Christopher Laverty 2 Comments 17 Nov ’11 16 Sep ’10 23 Mar ’18

The leading female character of Grease (1978), Sandy Olsen, played by Olivia Newton-John, is the character who wears the clothes most typified by fancy dress companies pertaining to sell costumes linked to the film. Desperate to fit in at her new school, many of her clothes bear the ‘Rydell High’ logo in some way. Unfortunately for Sandy, she chooses ‘The Pink Ladies’ as her new best friends, the clique who find school far beneath their coolness. No wonder she is deemed by Rizzo as “too pure to be pink”. We see this purity at the beginning of the film, where Sandy refuses to take her ‘Summer Loving’ with Danny a…

After the tragic loss of Jacques d’Azur, his heir steps forward thanks to Stella Artois 4%. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on Jacques D’Azur’s Heir Found: Enjoys Bespoke Tux & Lots to Drink 13 Feb ’10 26 Mar ’10 6 Jun ’09