Hippie | Clothes on Film

A brief video dip into the costume design of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

“We are stardust, we are golden”, sang Joni Mitchell of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, held August 15-18th 1969, at a dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York. The irony was, she wasn’t even there. A further irony follows in that whilst a myriad of psychedelic colours are synonymous with the Woodstock nation, one of the most revered choices of dress, clearly shown in the documentary Woodstock (1970) is a simple white leather fringed lace-up tunic-style vest and bell bottom trousers. It is worn by one of the first female rock stars, the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane,…

Goldie Hawn’s unforgettable debut in hot pants and mini skirts in Cactus Flower.

Does Japanese period costume reflect on contemporary fashion? We appraise the hipster style of Norwegian Wood.

Speaking exclusively to Clothes on Film, Le Divorce costume designer Carol Ramsey explains how a Hermès Kelly can be elevated from status symbol to character.

On Meg Ryan’s character Alice, hippie seems like a passing trend rather than a lifestyle choice.

Flourishes of brilliance, but buried beneath disjointed action sequences and a story that fails to make any sense at all.

As an artistic influence on everything from fashion to music, Tron has created a cultural cosmos we now term its ‘legacy’.

Less a costume movie and more a fashion one, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is typical of its naughty director Russ Meyer in all the best ways.

His Cowichan-type Pendleton cardigan sums up The Dude best of all.