Richard Gere | Clothes on Film

Internal Affairs (1990) is an excellent stone cold thriller. The costumes are a subtle tease, revealing personal information that the characters never say out loud. Like many movies released in the late 1980s/1990s, Internal Affairs radiates uneasiness caused by shifting societal attitudes – anything that threatens a straight male chauvinist black-and-white world. Costume designer Rudy Dillon punches through this black-and-white world with ensembles that poke fun at the status quo and subsequently subvert them with eroticism, perhaps ironically using only a colour scheme of black and white. The straight white male chauvinist is Dennis Peck (Richard Gere), a police officer in Los Angeles who controls his colleagues by involving them…

American Gigolo is not about its protagonist, it is about what he wears. American Gigolo is about Armani.

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

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A timeless example of how movie fashion extends beyond the screen.

Straight away there are overtones of influential crime thriller New Jack City with branded sportswear and 1920s-30’s style hats.