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glencheck | Clothes on Film

November 28, 2020 /

  • Costume designer Ann Roth’s template for Working Girl (1988, directed by Mike Nichols) is especially astute with regards to the social and geographical make up of its characters. Protagonist Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is a homely girl raised and living in Staten Island, New York. Currently working as a secretary in Manhattan (not ‘executive assistant’, reflecting vernacular of the time), as is her best friend Cynthia (Joan Cusack). Tess, however, has gained a degree through night school and harbours ambitions to use it for more constructive tasks than answering the telephone and fetching toilet paper for bawdy stockbrokers. After being set up for a ‘date’ that turned out to be…

  • James Bond is back and he has never scrubbed up better. Tom Ford now exists to make Daniel Craig suits.

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  • A look at the costumes you can expect to see and enjoy at Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style.

  • A majestic tale set in a buttoned-up world of repressed emotion.

  • Costume designer Louise Mingenbach worked closely with Zach Galifianakis to create Ethan’s camp and blissfully unaware look.