The costumes of Rumble Fish express the importance of teenage dress codes before the segregating journey into adulthood. With exclusive insight from costume designer Aggie Guerard Rodgers, we investigate the story behind Harry Caul’s distinctive plastic raincoat.

Spoiler warning: The costume clues and details of Star Trek Into Darkness. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 4 Jun ’10 16 Apr ’15 13 Mar ’10

To celebrate the release of Oz the Great and Powerful, here is a round up of the best fantasy costume posts at Clothes on Film. For those of you lucky enough to live in LA, literally racks of costumes have just on display at The FIDM Museum. Clothes on Film were lucky enough to get an up close look at the actual costumes from Prince of Persia. Penny Rose creates incredible costume that feels so much like it belongs; ironically we barely even notice it’s there. Penny Rose talks to us about 800 year old embroidery patterns and priests dressed in bedspreads.

A brief glimpse at the costume world Mark Bridges created for Joker. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on The Costuming of Joaquin Phoenix in Joker 1 Sep ’09 20 Jan ’20 25 Jul ’09

Costume designer Ann Roth, arguably one of the greatest of her craft still working in Hollywood, has costumed director Steven Spielberg’s latest The Post, and by the looks of this first trailer we are in for a muted treat: What we have are gentlemen sporting classic collar points with moderate spread, sometimes short sleeve (always with a chest pocket – a very American touch) and medium breadth neckties. The occasional kipper, but this 1971 is a very different world than, say, The Deuce (costume designer Anna Terrazas). The seventies may have ushered in increasingly wide flared trousers and oversized lapels but it’s doubtful we’ll see much of those in The……

MILD SPOILERS Director Ben Wheatley’s latest, Free Fire, is set in Boston, 1978, but was actually shot in Brighton in 2015. Being as the plot revolves around ten characters involved in a one hour plus shoot-out inside a disused factory, from a sartorial point of view things get rather grubby. The film’s BAFTA nominated costume designer Emma Fryer has already worked with Wheatley on The ABCs of Death (2012) and A Field in England (2013) so is used to the way his stories tend to go bananas in the final reel. Free Fire unfolds practically in real time, which amps up the tension but allows for no mistake with costume.…

A rundown of why Hollywood Costume at the V&A is the best event you will see all year. Lord Christopher Laverty 4 Comments 10 Oct ’11 21 Mar ’13 21 Dec ’10 There more going on with this outfit than an absence of underwear. Lord Christopher Laverty 3 Comments 11 Oct ’11 2 Apr ’12 26 Oct ’10

MILD SPOILERS Director Ben Wheatley’s latest, Free Fire, is set in Boston, 1978, but was actually shot in Brighton in 2015. Being as the plot revolves around ten characters involved in a one hour plus shoot-out inside a disused factory, from a sartorial point of view things get rather grubby. The film’s BAFTA nominated costume designer Emma Fryer has already worked with Wheatley on The ABCs of Death (2012) and A Field in England (2013) so is used to the way his stories tend to go bananas in the final reel. Free Fire unfolds practically in real time, which amps up the tension but allows for no mistake with costume.…

If you thought a scorpion embroidered bomber jacket was tough to pull off, just wait until you see Ryan Gosling in The Place Beyond the Pines.

La Femme Nikita re-defines the little black dress on film. Lord Christopher Laverty 2 Comments 9 Dec ’14 29 Aug ’13 2 Apr ’12