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Outfits worn specifically by female actors on television For HBO Sessions part 2, Clothes on Film editor Chris Laverty was invited to discuss the costume design of Boardwalk Empire. By no means intended as an exhaustive list, Clothes on Film ponder an overview of 2011 in costume. Playing computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, Noomi Rapace embodies the character in such a way that picturing anyone else in the role is nearly impossible. The displaced sex appeal of uniforms in Mildred Pierce. Clothes on Film editor, Chris Laverty discusses the costumes of Mildred Pierce for filmed HBO Sessions. Costume wise, This is Jinsy is deliberately bizarre and mismatched. Yet everything makes sense…

Outfits worn specifically by female actors on television The costume evolution of Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones. Lucinda Wright talks costume in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder in Angel Lane. The week in costume design. The costume evolution of Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones. Costume colours in House of Cards are symbolic of vulnerability and power. Analysing the sometimes tense relationship between fashion and costume design. Our thoughts on the costume design in the season 6 premiere of Mad Men. Now the major award ceremonies are over we have a summary of the big costume design winners. Or should that be big winner? Anna Karenina. Clothes…

The first image from Thor showcasing characters other than the hammer man himself has been released. No, the film is not a musical. We are not saying that we dislike the costumes by Alexandra Byrne, it is just that the overly bright lighting, oddly Doctor Who circa 1970s set and Anthony Hopkins wearing some chocolate foil over his eye is hardly projecting the image of a $150 million film. With Oscar winner Byrne involved especially, but considering Kenneth Branagh directing and quality co-stars such as Stellan Skarsgård and Natalie Portman appearing alongside Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Hopkins himself, this rather campy look has to be intentional. To be fair…

Costume colours in House of Cards are symbolic of vulnerability and power. Alongside costume illustrations with fabric swatch, Ellen Mirojnick explains the stage wear worn by Michael Douglas and Matt Damon. First in our two part retrospective of neo-noir classic The Grifters with exclusive insight from the film’s assistant costume designer Mark Bridges. A 13 minute Man of Steel featurette has just been released discussing the suit. Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick brings Liberace back to life on stage and off. Goldie Hawn’s unforgettable debut in hot pants and mini skirts in Cactus Flower. Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin bring us the twenties reloaded. Some photographs from the recent So Dior…

Author Matt Zoller Seitz has published a continuation of his superb book The Wes Anderson Collection (2013), entitled (deep breath) The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel. The former is a detailed look at Anderson’s output so far, influences, meaning and interpretation of his work; the latter covers exclusively Anderson’s latest, The Grand Budapest Hotel. This is far more than a bolted on sequel, however, and one of the reasons we know this is because Clothes on Film editor Christopher Laverty was asked to contribute a chapter. More than that, it has recently joined The New York Times bestseller list. A pretty, candy-coloured slab of hardback, Seitz’s follow up……

Outfits worn specifically by female actors on television SPOILERS THROUGHOUT Having recently finished a six week, six episode run on the BBC, John le Carré adapted spy drama The Little Drummer Girl was divisive in terms of audience reaction. Some found the plot impossible to follow, others revelled in the cloak and dagger shenanigans of twenty-something Charmain ‘Charlie’ Ross (Florence Pugh), a low level actress drawn into a high stakes mission of infiltrating a Palestinian revolutionary group in 1979. The show’s costume design by Sheena Napier and Stephen Noble inspired equal division. While most enjoyed the eye-popping period ensembles and how they exemplified character, just as many were left confounded…

Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) is the quintessential evil queen, right up there with The Queen from Snow White and the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland. Or is she..? Throughout Game of Thrones we have been given clues as to Cersei’s motivations and character, and by the end of Season 3 she has become, partially at least, a sympathetic character. While Cersei was not involved with the Walder-Frey-Marry-One-Of-My-Daughters plotline, which famously leads to the gruesome ‘Red Wedding’; that plot really drove home that point that in this world women are only worth how beautiful they are. Even Robb Stark, one of the so-called good guys, was horrified at the…

There is not man behind the mask; the mask is The Lone Ranger. Building character with the costume design of Pacific Rim. The costume evolution of Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones. Analysis of Shawna Trpcic’s subtle costume signifiers with input from the designer herself. We chat to costume designer Gary Jones about his work on Oz the Great and Powerful. Lucinda Wright talks costume in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder in Angel Lane. World War Z neatly demonstrates the art of breaking down and distressing costume. The costume evolution of Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones. Man of Steel costume designer reveals fascinating insight about the film.…

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page Directed By: Christopher Nolan Not everyone is going to like Inception. Not everyone likes, say, Fight Club, or Inglourious Basterds. Mainly because they went in expecting one thing and came out with something entirely different. And this is Inception in a nutshell. Slick, engaging, tense, yet maybe nothing at all like you expected. The screenplay by director Christopher Nolan, apparently decades in the making and originally a horror story, is constructed as his own personal maze in which to lose viewers. The meat of the film, the heist or ‘Inception’, incorporates several plots working concurrently towards a single narrative. Shooting at exotic locales…