A new web documentary analysing the look of James Bond. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 25 Nov ’11 27 Mar ’13 4 May ’16

No round up last week because we were a bit busy, so this week is MEGA JAMMED WITH COSTUME GOODNESS. Puttin’ on the Glitz We teamed up with Amber Jane Butchart and The British Library to talk jazz age fashion and dandy gangsters. Further coverage to follow… Costume Test Images 50 of them to be precise, from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to Star Wars, Batman, and beyond. Noah Mad good interview/article by Tyranny of Style with Noah’s Head Textile Artist Matt Reitsma. There is absolutely no way you can care about costume design and not read this. Business of Fashion Costume designers, fashion designers, studios, brands, and a business venture 100……

This is the most fun and elaborate outfit Grace Kelly wears in To Catch a Thief. Specialist websites suggest for a Pink Lady we need their jacket and a poodle skirt, but what do the girls really wear and why?

A real legend of the industry, costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge, has died. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 3 Jun ’10 11 Sep ’09 21 Oct ’09

Costume stories for the festive season. Shame that none of these have anything to do with Christmas. Bronx Bombers on Broadway Let’s all go to the theatre.Tyranny of Style has published an eye-opening interview with Bronx Bombers costume designer David C. Woolard. Having worked in theatre first hand, CoF got just a little bit nostalgic. The Innocents (1961) GORGEOUS gothic costume sketches. Patia Prouty Banshee and Justified’s costume designer talks about her work on both shows in this superb interview for True To Me Too. Punch-Drunk Love Girls Do Film get all caught up in colour. American Horror Story Lou Eyrich left Glee to costume killer nuns and aliens. She…

Zach Galifianakis in a safari suit and plenty more costume wackiness to come says costume designer Louise Mingenbach. With exclusive insight from The Hangover costume designer Louise Mingenbach, we investigate how clothing defined character and brought this movie to life.

Gripping entertainment with subtext on everything from ethnicity to hierarchal costume. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes 21 Oct ’11 26 Sep ’11 30 Apr ’10

Costume stories for the festive season. Shame that none of these have anything to do with Christmas. Bronx Bombers on Broadway Let’s all go to the theatre.Tyranny of Style has published an eye-opening interview with Bronx Bombers costume designer David C. Woolard. Having worked in theatre first hand, CoF got just a little bit nostalgic. The Innocents (1961) GORGEOUS gothic costume sketches. Patia Prouty Banshee and Justified’s costume designer talks about her work on both shows in this superb interview for True To Me Too. Punch-Drunk Love Girls Do Film get all caught up in colour. American Horror Story Lou Eyrich left Glee to costume killer nuns and aliens. She…

MILD SPOILERS The hoodie has as much to say about it’s wearer as, say, the white t-shirt does. By which I mean that, depending on context, it can say anything. The white t-shirt can imply clean, erotic, the worker – or a combination of all three. In the eyes of contemporary media, the hoodie largely suggests youth. Shady youth, someone not keen to reveal their identity because they are planning on robbing you or worse. Put the hoodie on a black man and it is pretty much akin to walking down the street in a striped jumper with a sack marked ‘swag’. Luke Cage is not set to change that……

Crazy, Stupid Love is every inch the ‘fashion film’, both in terms of narrative and costume designer Dayna Pink’s elegant menswear styling. Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick talks exclusively to Clothes on Film about the look of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.