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…

Judging solely on this footage, Carey Mulligan’s Jenny goes down the Audrey Hepburn route more than typical teen fashions of the sixties.

He is the whitest of the white trash, the kind of man who dumps raw sewage in a storm drain and kidnaps your boss as a Christmas present. And the only man to ever combine a leather belt with a bathrobe. Randy Quaid has played lovable moocher ‘Cousin Eddie’ in four separate National Lampoon films, but his most famous performance still resides at yuletide. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989, directed by Jeremiah C. Chechik) has weathered years of apathy to become something of a seasonal favourite. Watching Chevy Chase’s bipolar family man Clark Griswold lose his rag every December is now a festive tradition . Yet Clark is not really……

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Proving that frock coats and heavy lace dresses really are terrifying. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 9 Jul ’12 16 Jul ’13 30 Jun ’12 A trailer for The Woman in Black arrives bringing that spooky sense of dread that only Victorian costume can provide. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on The Woman in Black Trailer: Creepy Frock 1 Jan ’13 1 Apr ’14 14 Jul ’11 The first image of Chris Hemsworth as Thor. Costume almost revealed. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on Thor: Costume Revealed. Sort Of 11 Nov ’09 28 Oct ’14 19 Dec ’11

To tie-in with the release of Disney’s new live-action version of Beauty and Beast, the project’s Oscar winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran teamed up with students from Central Saint Martin’s college in London to reinterpret ensembles from the film. These are outfits designed in homage to Beauty and the Beast, taking specific elements here and there, a song, colour or concept and creating something entirely new. Whether these are fashion or art pieces is ultimately unclear – what stands out though is their reach beyond that of merely marketing a big movie. Just as an idea it would be fantastic to see more films promoting their costumes in this way.…

Director Brian De Palma has made movies heavily influenced by Alfred Hitchcock before, but Passion (2012) is the first one whose characters look like they stepped out of one of Hitchcock’s classic films. Karen Muller-Serreau’s bold and colourful costumes communicate the characters’ hidden desires and make watching Passion a sensory experience. This melodrama centres on two ad executives, Isabelle (Noomi Rapace) and her boss Christine (Rachel McAdams), who have a deadline to come up with an ad campaign for a new smartphone. In her sleep, Isabelle thinks of a great idea. The two other principal characters are Isabelle’s assistant Dani (Karoline Herfurth) and Christine’s boyfriend Dirk (Paul Anderson) who get…

Jennifer Garner’s costumes in 13 Going On 30 (2004) are some of the most fun for a romantic comedy of recent years. In a plot which sees gawky teenager Jenna Rink (Garner) flash thirteen years into the future to find herself editor of Poise fashion magazine, it is unsurprising if the clothes she wears are somewhat…ahem….‘colourful’. At the start of the film, when Jenna is indeed 13, there is an array of 1980s fashions on show, including pale dyed denims, bejewelled off-the-shoulder tops and colours so bright they are practically luminous. Costume designer Susie DeSanto (Miss Congeniality, 2000) really went to town. When time jumps forward, however, and Jenna is…

In Malèna, Monica Bellucci plays an impossible vision of beauty; a woman so striking she is immediately sexualised by all who lay eyes on her. Throughout The Way We Were, Barbra Streisand wears a mix of period authenticity and contemporary fashion.

Would you like to own some of the classy attire worn by George Clooney as unsurprisingly troubled hitman Jack and Thekla Reuten as mysterious Mathilde in The American? Silly question, of course you would. So read on. Following our brief rundown of the costume design by Suttirat Anne Larlarb in The American HERE, we can now inform you that a charity sale is being held in support of the Red Cross International Response Fund where you can actually buy the clothes worn by Clooney and Reuten and also Violante Placido’s character Clara in the movie. Credit cards at the ready then. This charity is a particularly pertinent cause as monies…