Ridley Scott | Clothes on Film

For a big budget movie about a lone astronaut who gets stranded on Mars, the spacesuits in The Martian are surprisingly sober in terms of design. There is an attempt here to make everything seem as plausible as possible, costume design especially. Director Ridley Scott’s regular costumer Janty Yates has created possibly the sexiest spacesuits ever seen on screen, and what’s more they are functional. To paraphrase a line in the film, she had to “science the shit out of them”. Yates collaborated with NASA looking specifically at their Z1 and Z2 prototypes to create an EVA (‘Extravehicular Activity’ – any time the crew must go outside) suit and surface…

The Counsellor trailer hits with high-shine sartorial gloss.

Clothes on Film have an exclusive chat with Academy Award winning costume designer Janty Yates about her work on Prometheus.

Editor Chris Laverty explains how to ‘read’ costume on film. From an article originally published in Moviescope magazine.

In the first of a two-part special, we examine how important costumes from the Alien films are in contextualising primal terror.

The latest in a queue of trailers for Ridley Scott’s version of Robin Hood has arrived. This one shows some basic plot too.

The first trailer for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood has hit the internet. Hit is the right word, as this is more battle royal than Prince of Thieves.

Mark Strong is sole sartorial encouragement in a movie choc full of (intentionally) awful clothes.

Hardly surprising, but Gucci are not that fussed at Ridley Scott making a film out of the most tumultuous period in their history after all.

Angelina Jolie is being courted by Ridley Scott to star in ‘Gucci’; a film charting internal power struggles to control the fashion empire.

Costume designer Janty Yates has taken time out filming Robin Hood to chat about her contribution to an earlier Scott picture – Hannibal.