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Marilyn Monroe | Clothes on Film

  • Catch up with the week’s costume links. Fashion Fall Trends From big screen and small, Nathalie Atkinson analyses – with typical and unrelenting brilliance – inspiration for the fall fashion season. Ken Van Duyne, Assistant Costume Designer Chats about his way into the business and working with Julie Weiss. Piero Tosi The Italian costume designer (Death in Venice, The Night Porter) has been given an honorary Oscar. Well done, sir. Costume designers as brands Cassy Salyer looks at the increasing (and potentially controversial) trend for costume designers to produce capsule versions for the high street. The Bling Ring Video: The Cut meet costume designer Stacey Battat. Sleepy Hollow Costume designer…

  • Catherine Martin chats about The Great Gatsby costumes, design and a lack of nostalgia.

  • Julien’s Hollywood Icons and Idols sale draws high bids for famous costumes, but not the big numbers seen last year at the Debbie Reynolds auction.

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  • We have five copies of Liz Gregory’s movie dressmaking book Sew Iconic to give away. That’s right, five.

  • Edith Head’s costume design for Vertigo demonstrates the power of clothes in forming identities on-screen.

  • Hollywood costume comes to London’s Victoria & Albert Museum in the most exciting exhibition of its type ever announced.

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  • $ 4,600,000 for Marilyn Monroe’s ‘subway’ dress was only just one mega bid of many.

  • The Debbie Reynolds costume collection is up for sale. Darn you, worldwide recession!