Here are a few images from the film that you have probably seen already. The costume style adopted by the movie – which is proving unusual to say the least. Guy Ritchie is steering his Holmes away from the traditional, stuffier image of Basil Rathbone or Jeremy Brett.

Clothes from films set during 1940s This emerald green dress from Atonement could be the most famous item of clothing on film in the last decade. Hildy is tenacious and classy, though she’s not graceful.

It is with huge anticipation that we take an exclusive look at FilmCraft: Costume Design by Deborah Nadoolman Landis, arguably the most important person in the costume industry today. As costume designer for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Coming to America (1988), Burke and Hare (2010), and many other well known titles, in addition to former two-term president of the CDG, academic scholar and now museum curator, Nadoolman Landis is ideally placed to write such a book. It reads to us like an update of her similarly titled ScreenCraft volume from 2003, but is not officially intended as such. This all new publication features a detailed introduction, plus interviews…

Costume design is more than just period – much more. Contemporary costume has an even tougher job of defining character and establishing setting. Yet every once in a while a period film comes along with clothes, hats and accessories so impeccably researched and realised on screen that it is impossible not to get swept along in the majesty of the past. Predominately early 1930s set Lawless is one such example. Costume designer Margot Wilson (The Thin Red Line, The Proposition, The Road), has created one of the richest costume palettes of 2012, and all in a believable real world setting. Speaking exclusively to Clothes on Film, Ms. Wilson talks us…

Just days behind our first glimpse at Prince of Persia, we have a teaser trailer for Clash of the Titans. It’s certainly loud.

The week in costume design. Costume colours in House of Cards are symbolic of vulnerability and power. Analysing the sometimes tense relationship between fashion and costume design. Our thoughts on the costume design in the season 6 premiere of Mad Men. Now the major award ceremonies are over we have a summary of the big costume design winners. Or should that be big winner? Anna Karenina. Clothes on Film were granted a private tour of world-renowned Angels the costumiers. Clothes on Film on the costume design for HBO’s immense fantasy series, Game of Thrones. The votes have been counted, the prizes dished out… A brief but worthwhile and exclusive clip…

As is often the way with costume designers, Stephanie Collie is something of an unsung hero. We will not reel off her entire back catalogue, but it does include South Riding (2011, TV), Telstar (2008) Peter’s Friends (1992) and perhaps most exciting of all, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). Now, anyone old enough to remember when Lock, Stock arrived will remember just what an incredible influence its Mod inspired costumes had on the world of fashion. You could not pick up a men’s magazine of the time without seeing some guy in slim trousers and a jersey polo shirt. Stephanie Collie invented this look, thus providing one of……

A mishmash of sci-fi conventions and clichés cobbled together as something we have never quite seen before. The costumes of Rumble Fish express the importance of teenage dress codes before the segregating journey into adulthood. It is impossible not to have fun watching Avengers Assemble. Ruth E. Carter’s work on Do the Right Thing is a masterclass in how costume can influence the look and feel of a film. Costume designer Michael Kaplan took time away from Star Trek 2 to chat exclusively to Clothes on Film about Ghost Protocol. Enjoyably daft fare with enough fast cars and desirable clobber to keep you cooing until the credits. Playing computer hacker,…

Obviously, Arianne Phillips‘ costume design for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019, directed by Quentin Tarantino) deserves a thorough analysis. However, with the film not yet on blu-ray that is not really possible for the time-being. One needs the ability to pore over and rewind these sartorial pleasures in a way that the cinema just cannot sustain. So, for the moment, this is just a brief dip in and out of the costume looks of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, concentrating on the big three lead characters: Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). There is still plenty to say and comment…

Starring: Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield Directed By: Martin Scorsese Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese concocts a cracking children’s fantasy in homage to silent movie magician Georges Méliès; his beloved Hugo barely drops a cog in its methodically realised mechanical world. Scorsese has unmistakably made a children’s movie. Some may argue not as it is crammed full of references to early moving pictures that only adults could probably recognise. Yet Scorsese’s purpose, like that of his hero Méliès, is to entertain and inform. For all the po-faced wittering by cinema scholars that Hugo is meant for them, one has to wonder if deep down Scorsese really cares if any…