The week in costume design. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on Costume Stories: This Week, Anna Nicole and House of Cards 16 Mar ’12 20 Dec ’12 27 Feb ’10

Costume designer Rebecca Hofherr talks exclusively to Clothes on Film about her incredible contribution to Winter’s Bone. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 28 Jun ’10 19 Feb ’10 8 Jun ’10

Filmmaker Nic Fforde discusses how he come to realise the importance of costume design in his projects. Stories in films are all familiar to us in some way, no matter how remote the setting. The hell that unfolds aboard the Nostromo in Alien, LA’s icy criminal underworld in Heat or Rope’s Ivy League dinner party – a good story well told will whisk you away to its own self–contained world. All the tools of filmmaking are there to help create these worlds. What part does costume play in all this? My day job is to make films for advertising. We work on low budgets with small documentary crews. Whatever our……

Playing computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, Noomi Rapace embodies the character in such a way that picturing anyone else in the role is nearly impossible.

Costume designer Rebecca Hofherr talks exclusively to Clothes on Film about her incredible contribution to Winter’s Bone. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 19 Nov ’10 9 May ’09 10 Jun ’11

Introduction to our essay about Eiko Ishioka for Arts Illustrated magazine. Eiko Ishioka’s dresses for Mirror, Mirror featured in an app? Sure, anything that gets people taking about costume. Innovative costume designer and art director Eiko Ishioka has died aged 73.

The full trailer for the Coen brothers’ remake of True Grit starring Jeff Bridges has moseyed onto the internet. Lord Christopher Laverty 2 Comments 4 Feb ’14 9 Jul ’12 8 Feb ’13

There is a problem with the costumes in The Wolf of Wall Street, and it has nothing to do with the film itself but the coverage they have received. Namely, that this coverage is incorrect. Articles such as this one for Vogue France, or this for The Hollywood Reporter, or a ‘suit guide’ by Esquire, concentrate almost solely on Giorgio Armani’s contribution to the project with barely a mention of costume designer Sandy Powell. And this is the Sandy Powell by the way: 10 Oscar nominations and so well respected she has an OBE for services to the industry. It was Powell who costumed The Wolf of Wall Street, not…

Costume designer Rebecca Hofherr talks exclusively to Clothes on Film about her incredible contribution to Winter’s Bone. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 16 Sep ’10 2 Nov ’09 10 Jun ’11

Lots of exciting costume stories this week. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on Costume Stories: This Week, The Bling Ring and Anchorman 22 Jul ’13 26 Apr ’14 27 Jul ’13