A look at the costumes you can expect to see and enjoy at Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style. Costume designer Lindy Hemming chats exclusively to Clothes on Film about her contribution to Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style.

The first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of War Horse gallops online and it looks sumptuous. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on Spielberg’s War Horse: First Trailer Arrives 4 Jun ’14 4 Feb ’20 23 Oct ’12

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 29 Aug ’13 2 Apr ’12 7 Jun ’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 20 Mar ’12 11 Oct ’11 6 Feb ’17

They have finally done it. Nike has recreated the famous Nike MAG trainers worn by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future Part II. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on Back to the Future Nikes go on Sale: You Can’t Afford Them 9 Dec ’14 6 Apr ’10 16 Feb ’13

Though George Clooney is excellent, The American fails to hit the emotional notes expected. Buy costumes worn by George Clooney and Thekla Reuten in The American at a Red Cross charity sale. A few images from The American starring George Clooney. Contemporary costume design by Suttirat Anne Larlarb.

To be a saboteur you must surely dress like one. Lord Christopher Laverty 2 Comments 26 Aug ’11 28 Sep ’09 18 Jun ’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 2 Oct ’18 28 May ’10 8 Sep ’09 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 25 Jun ’10 8 Oct ’09 8 Jul ’10

Author Caroline Young has just released a fascinating new book entitled Hitchcock’s Heroines (published by Insight Editions). It celebrates and studies the women in Hitchcock movies; their influence, semblance and iconography. What’s more, Young also examines the role costume design plays with these women, both the characters and the actresses who played them, and how they can be interpreted as far more than just ‘icy blondes’. Here we have an extract of the book exclusively for Clothes on Film: Kim Novak’s grey suit the colour of San Francisco fog in Vertigo, Grace Kelly as the too-perfect woman in Rear Window, and Janet Leigh’s black and white sets of underwear to……

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When Arnold Scaasi opened his couture salon in 1964, he soon became a couturier to the stars. He was already a favoured designer for Barbra Streisand when he famously dressed her for the 1969 Oscars. Streisand was up for Best Actress for her movie debut in Funny Girl and was established as something of an ‘individual’; usually described as ‘kooky’, she was completely different from anyone else, an innovator of style, and challenging and changing the ideas of beauty. So it is no surprise that when it came to her clothing choice for the Oscars, Streisand resisted the usual protocol of an evening gown and instead opted for a most…