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    Costume Stories: This Week, FIDM and Breaking Bad | Clothes on Film – Part 32942

    Costume’s big stories for the week. Ender’s Game Brief interview with Ender’s Game costume designer Christine Bieselin-Clark – she worked on Tron Legacy with Michael Wilkinson and is a nice person. Gilda Fascinating, clued-up read by Girls do Film (no relation). FIDM More than 120 television costumes on display. Salivating. …and then read this wonderful, in-depth Tyranny of Style review and have a heart attack. House of Cards Costume designer Tom Broecker got in contact to say how much he enjoyed our article. How cool. Gives us an excuse to promote it again, too. Sean Parker’s wedding Costume design – that’s right – costume design by Ngila Dickson (The Lord…

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    Fight Club: Remembering Marla, the Dark Tourist | Clothes on Film – Part 30871

    She arrives at the support group just as the hugging begins. “This is cancer, right?” she asks, her pallid skin and sunken eyes suggesting she could well be a sufferer. Except this is a support group for testicular cancer and Marla doesn’t have any balls, not the kind that can be removed by surgery anyway. Mischievous Marla Singer: black fur coat, sunglasses, squashed black hat and breathing through a cigarette. On the surface Marla looks like a femme fatale, though in truth she is not manipulative enough to fit the mould. In Tyler Durden’s words she is “rock bottom”. Once mislaid, now gone for good. As an embodiment of affected…

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    waist cincher | Clothes on Film

    Moments of sartorial significance, and that glimmer of recognition that we feel upon seeing an onscreen outfit worn more than once are found throughout Smooth Talk, Joyce Chopra’s underseen 1986 adaptation of a Joyce Carol Oates short story. The film is rife with all the monotony of life and charming ensembles we expect of a teenage girl in the summer, yet it simultaneously offers complexity and creepiness. Laura Dern plays Connie, an ingénue spending her days as an “unfinished girl, waiting for completion of some sort” (Quart 74). In her essay, “Smoothing Out the Rough Spots: The Film Adaptation of ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’” Rebecca Sumner……

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    Sandy Powell | Clothes on Film – Part 2

    Who might win for costume design at the Orange BAFTA Film Awards? Here’s our round-up of the big three costume design award nominations. Hugo is Scorsese’s monument to wonder and excitement. Here Sandy Powell exclusively explains her costume choices to Clothes on Film. An exhibition of British costume design from films such as The King’s Speech and Pirates of the Caribbean opens at the Fashion Museum in July. For those of you lucky enough to live in LA, literally racks of costumes have just on display at The FIDM Museum. Our first Dual Analysis with Costumer’s Guide. To kick off, here is what Chris from Clothes on Film had to…