Second and final part of Clothes on Film’s sartorial run-through of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, with exclusive input from costume designer Jenny Beavan. First of Clothes on Film’s two part sartorial run-through of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, with exclusive input from costume designer Jenny Beavan. Final part of our analysis of Sherlock Holmes complete with insight from costume designer Jenny Beavan. With insight from costume designer Jenny Beavan, we commence our sartorial analysis of Sherlock Holmes.

By no means intended as an exhaustive list, Clothes on Film ponder an overview of 2011 in costume. Warner Bros. have released two images from The Great Gatsby. Not much to see, but it is difficult not to be drawn in by the promise of costume luxury.

Gripping and meticulously structured. Held together by yet another screen bursting performance from Kathy Bates. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 9 Feb ’15 31 Jul ’09 1 Jan ’20

Here is an interesting article from The Observer. Bill Nighy lists the five things he knows about style. Really you should read the whole thing over there as they wrote it, but for lazy clickers we have included the gist below: 1. ‘Wear a kilt – it is a deeply satisfying garment.’ 2. ‘If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.’ 3. ‘The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.’ 4. ‘I’d kill myself before wearing a pair of tracksuit bottoms.’ 5. ‘There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear…

Catch up with the week’s costume links. Fashion Fall Trends From big screen and small, Nathalie Atkinson analyses – with typical and unrelenting brilliance – inspiration for the fall fashion season. Ken Van Duyne, Assistant Costume Designer Chats about his way into the business and working with Julie Weiss. Piero Tosi The Italian costume designer (Death in Venice, The Night Porter) has been given an honorary Oscar. Well done, sir. Costume designers as brands Cassy Salyer looks at the increasing (and potentially controversial) trend for costume designers to produce capsule versions for the high street. The Bling Ring Video: The Cut meet costume designer Stacey Battat. Sleepy Hollow Costume designer…

It was late November, 2016 when I visited the set of The Conjuring 2 (directed by James Wan). The reason I never wrote about it for Clothes on Film or anywhere else was because of my official role on the day: I was playing an extra (or background artist if you like) during the film’s Maida Vale pub scene. Specifically this is the moment when real life husband and wife paranormal investigator team, Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) and Ed Warren (Patrick Wilson) meet with noted experts in their field to discuss the validity of their current case, aka the Enfield poltergeist. I made the finished cut, by the skin of my……

Finally we have a trailer for Tom Hardy’s Capone and it looks jim-jam tastic. Gena Rowlands’ costumes as Gloria evocate character through a fashionable capsule wardrobe. Less a costume movie and more a fashion one, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is typical of its naughty director Russ Meyer in all the best ways.

Finally we have a trailer for Tom Hardy’s Capone and it looks jim-jam tastic. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on First Trailer for Tom Hardy’s Capone: Inspirational Lockdown Robe Attire 3 Apr ’20 9 Sep ’10 21 Jun ’13 Public Enemies demonstrates how costume can actually drive a story narrative. Lord Christopher Laverty 4 Comments 10 May ’11 11 Aug ’10 19 Oct ’09

The subtle differentiation of character through costume design in Moon. Contributor 2 Comments 29 May ’13 28 Jul ’17 14 Aug ’17

So much has been written about H.R. Giger’s justly-renowned xenomorph design that the human costume design in the Alien movies goes largely unnoticed, argues film critic Simon Kinnear. In the first of a two-part special, we revisit the saga on Blu-ray to look at just how important these costumes are in contextualising primal terror. Traditionally, costume designers in science-fiction movies depicted the future as being utilitarian, uniform and very clinical: think of Forbidden Planet (1956) or 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) for good examples of the space-faring look. The early 1970s saw a slight sea-change when Dark Star (1974), the John Carpenter film scripted by future Alien creator Dan O’Bannon,…