That’s it then. Happy holidays everyone! Her This is a good article. Will Joaquin Phoenix wearing high waisted trousers in Her bring about a return of the look on the high street? We really hope so. Low and skinny is as dead as disco. Acutally disco is still awesome, but you get our point. The Butler HUGE analysis and discussion of The Butler from simply wonderful costume designer Ruth E. Carter. Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D We tried to watch this show but it made us feel old. That said the costumes by Ann Foley look spiffy. Read Tyranny of Style’s interview (with illustrations and inspiration board) to discover more. Batman…

If you like Potter, you are going to like this. Cannot say fairer than that. The latest trailer for The Last Airbender has arrived. Sumptuous looking costume design by Judianna Makovsky. Certainly the most memorable costume Diane Kruger wears in National Treasure – a luscious silk, full skirted evening dress.

The week in costume design stories and links. Arrested Development Costume designer Katie Sparks on duplicates and 70’s shirts. On 26th May it all happens. Deep breath, deep breath… The Dirty Picture Niharika Bhasin Khan: “My job is to get into the director’s head and see how he sees the characters.” Pain and Gain How to create trash on screen. Oblivion Marlane Stewart’s simple, streamlined costumes for Tom Cruise and company. Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo Playtex designed the spacesuit. Yep. Star Wars Episode VII Just in case you missed it, Michael Kaplan landed the biggest job in the universe. Behind the Candelabra Sensational interview with costume designer Ellen Mirojnick by costume…

The first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of War Horse gallops online and it looks sumptuous. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on Spielberg’s War Horse: First Trailer Arrives 19 May ’09 23 Oct ’12 10 Feb ’12

Recently we were fortunate enough to get our hands on Amber Jane Butchart’s new book, her ‘Fashion Miscellany’, which has just been published by The IIex Press. If you don’t already know, Amber is a contributor to Clothes on Film and will soon be teaming up with editor Christopher Laverty for an evening of Jazz Era discussion at the British Library. Her book, by the way, is flippin’ brilliant. If you care even slightly about what we wear and why, AJBFM is an indispensable purchase. The layout of it is simple enough. It’s basically designed as a dip-in-and-out for research, or whenever you fancy a flick though. We’d call this…

Doris Day’s last hurrah for 1950s fashion wearing some of the most exquisite costumes ever seen on screen. 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. Clothes on Film talk exclusively to costume designer of The Artist, Mark Bridges. Colleen Atwood does it AGAIN. Lucie Bates exclusively discusses her work on Hanna, inducing parodies, subtext and working with Giorgio Armani. As TracyDi Vicenzo in OHMSS, Diana Rigg wore a daring 1960s wedding ensemble. Angelina Jolie suits the unstructured dresses and cloche hats in Changeling perfectly. She may start out…

Not so much Clothes on Film as Underwear on Film, but far from just an excuse to show off a girl in her smalls, classic Mod era film Quadrophenia (1979) illustrates an interesting point concerning female hosiery in the 1960s. The sixties was the decade for tights. They were an ideal accompaniment to the mini skirt and came in a wide variety of colours, normally as bright and garish as possible. Thanks to innovations in textile production, tights (or pantyhose in the U.S.) were straightforward to produce and even easier to wear. Plus with mini skirt hems rising all the time, even the most confident of girls might have baulked…

Costume designer Catherine Marie Thomas proves that Sandra Bullock’s character in The Proposal (2009, directed by Anne Fletcher) does not need a closet full of clothes to make her mark. Here Catherine Marie Thomas discusses exclusively with Jill Burgess for Clothes on Film just why the film is so special to her. Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is a big shot New York book editor, making life hell for her assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds). One morning Margaret is informed by her bosses that she has lost her visa status and will be deported to her native Canada. When Andrew appears to whisk her away from the meeting, Margaret announces to…

The first trailer for Skyfall hits with several suits, an overcoat, sportswear and a beanie. Enjoyably daft fare with enough fast cars and desirable clobber to keep you cooing until the credits. Think Lulu’s theme song is the loudest thing in The Man with the Golden Gun? Think again. Michael Caine created Jack Carter, yet his immaculate blue mohair suit was more than a little responsible for creating the myth. Looking so sexy that the finished film can be nothing but a huge disappointment, this teaser for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ticks all the right 70’s boxes. As TracyDi Vicenzo in OHMSS, Diana Rigg wore a daring 1960s wedding ensemble.…

Not much to go on, but this project is already looking a bit WOW. Director Christophe Gans is adapting French fairytale La belle & la bête for the screen starring Léa Seydoux as the Belle and Vincent Cassel as the Beast. Costumes are by Pierre-Yves Gayraud (Cloud Atlas, The Bourne Identity), seemingly channelling fantasy via mid-late 18th century France, which is roughly when the original story is set, plus a tiny bit of Eiko Ishioka thrown in for good measure. Gans directed Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), an insane yet quite brilliant adventure/horror, based on a true story and also set in late 1700s France. Costumes for that film were…