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We revisit sci-fi classic Inception a decade after its release with MVP, costume designer Jeffrey Kurland.

Join Clothes on Film editor Christopher Laverty for a special Oscars Red Carpet Livestream. You better believe he’s wearing a custom made crown.

We chat to costume designer Caroline Eselin-Schaefer about her work on terrific new Amazon comedy, Troop Zero.

Examining the shirt collars of all the gentleman in 1941 noir classic, The Maltese Falcon.

A brief video dip into the costume design of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

MINOR SPOILERS Movies that feature contemporary fashion, particularly high-end and particularly for women, are a tricky sell costume wise. While men’s semi-formal to formal attire is generally shaped around the fundamental guise of the lounge suit, women’s clothing has a lot more avenues and possibilities. In addition to colour and pattern there is shape and form, which can vary dramatically for the fashionable wearer. What can vary dramatically can also date dramatically and this can be major stumbling block for costume designers. Films centred around the world of fashion, or those that include a lot of fashionable garments such as The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Clueless (1995) and Funny Face…

Does costume design exist in animated film? Simulation supervisor for Brave, Claudia Chung, discusses its creation, processes and role in the finished movie.

Innovative costume designer and art director Eiko Ishioka has died aged 73.

Disney has just released a new international trailer for Brave. Delightful, it is.

Harper’s Bazaar is running an insightful interview with Mildred Pierce costume designer Ann Roth.

Video: Clothes on Film chat exclusively to costume designer Joan Bergin about her extraordinary work on The Tudors.

It was BAFTA/CDG all over again as Sandy Powell won Best Costume Design for The Young Victoria.