Netflix have released a short featurette about costume design for The Alienist, giving an overall glimpse at the work of Michael Kaplan and his team in putting together the era of 1896, New York. What is enticing about The Alienist, apart from the fact that it’s brilliant whodunit telly, is that it is set outside of England, which is so often the preserve of dramas such as these. This is NY style at a point in history when those with money were about to get a whole lot more. Expensive, in other words, and if you had deep enough pockets your taste in fashion would echo this. Check out the……

The evolving costumes worn by Sandra Dee in classic sixties gender comedy A Man Answers. Contributor Comments Off on Sandra Dee in If A Man Answers: A Salmon Run Up Beacon Hill 12 Nov ’10 17 Jun ’10 28 Jan ’14

Goldie Hawn’s unforgettable debut in hot pants and mini skirts in Cactus Flower. Throughout The Way We Were, Barbra Streisand wears a mix of period authenticity and contemporary fashion.

The evolving costumes worn by Sandra Dee in classic sixties gender comedy A Man Answers. Contributor Comments Off on Sandra Dee in If A Man Answers: A Salmon Run Up Beacon Hill 5 Aug ’11 9 Dec ’09 28 Oct ’14

The best film Pixar have ever made. Lord Christopher Laverty 6 Comments 24 Apr ’13 19 Dec ’11 1 Oct ’09 Clothes on Film caught up with Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich for an exclusive interview. Ken’s camptastic wardrobe was on the agenda. Lord Christopher Laverty 7 Comments 18 Jul ’09 25 Dec ’10 24 Sep ’10

Does Japanese period costume reflect on contemporary fashion? We appraise the hipster style of Norwegian Wood. Attesting that upbeat and silly often go hand in hand, Beetle Juice stands as one of director Tim Burton’s most cheerfully insane projects.

Les Misérables is drenched in costume symbolism, specifically revolutionary red, white and blue. Subtle was never its intention. Speaking exclusively to Clothes on Film, Le Divorce costume designer Carol Ramsey explains how a Hermès Kelly can be elevated from status symbol to character.

Costume designer for The Hangover, Louise Mingenbach, has answered more questions about who wears what in the movie.

Janty Yates, costume designer for director Ridley Scott’s long-awaited sci-fi prequel Prometheus, is multi-award nominated and an Oscar winner for Gladiator (2000). She almost always collaborates with Scott (they have made seven pictures together and counting), but has an impressive catalogue of stand-alone work including Jude (1996), Plunkett & Macleane (1999) and Miami Vice (2006). Clothes on Film caught up with Ms. Yates for an exclusive chat about the space suits and fatigues in Prometheus, which she describes as containing some of her proudest work since Gladiator. SPOILER WARNING: We suggest only reading this after you have seen the film. Clothes on Film, Chris: What was the costume brief for…

‘Disney’s Muppets Most Wanted takes the entire Muppets gang on a global tour, selling out grand theatres in some of Europe’s most exciting destinations, including Berlin, Madrid, Dublin and London. But mayhem follows the Muppets overseas, as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper headed by Constantine—the World’s Number One Criminal and a dead ringer for Kermit the Frog—and his dastardly sidekick Dominic, aka Number Two, portrayed by Ricky Gervais. The film stars Ty Burrell as Interpol agent Jean Pierre Napoleon, and Tina Fey as Nadya, a feisty prison guard.‘ That is the boilerplate pitch for The Muppets Most Wanted. Verbatim. If you think that sounds like…