Ryan Gosling | Clothes on Film

MINOR SPOILERS First Man (2018) is not a movie overly preoccupied with fashion, And why would it be? The focus of the story is astronaut Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) and his journey to become the first person to ever walk on the surface of the moon. Armstrong wears a lot of button down shirts, short sleeve checks, neutral slacks, the odd dark single breasted suit for formal occasions – largely dour attire for a dour man. He also wears a space suit, several of them. However, outside of Emilio Pucci’s involvement in designing the logo for the Apollo 15 flight in 1971, fashion rarely intersects with the requirements of surviving…

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.

The glossy costume world of gangster squad is faithful to history, but not a slave to it.

Crazy, Stupid Love is every inch the ‘fashion film’, both in terms of narrative and costume designer Dayna Pink’s elegant menswear styling.

By no means intended as an exhaustive list, Clothes on Film ponder an overview of 2011 in costume.

The displaced sex appeal of uniforms in Mildred Pierce.

For a guy who prefers the synthetic appeal of satin and alloy, physical contact is a violent business.

“It is really a film *about* gloves”