October | 2014 | Clothes on Film

© 2014 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1960s, Girls in Films, Premium. Tagged festival, flares, flower children, flower power, fringing, Grace Slick, Hippie, Jefferson Airplane, Kaftan, psychedelic, rock, Woodstock. Bookmark the permalink.

“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. … Continue reading

© 2014 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi, Guys in Films, Premium. Tagged advertorial, Cape, cloak, Clothes from 1920s, costume, demon, Essie Davis, German expressionism, Halloween, Heather Wallace, Icon Pictures, Jennifer Kent, magician, Noah Wiseman, Nosferatu, overcoat, pink dress, The Babadook, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, top hat, uniform. Bookmark the permalink.

On the surface the Babadook is just another bogeyman: prickly, sinewy, all arched limbs and spiky digits. And this is the point: he is just another bogeyman; it is what he represents that really matters. Without spoiling too much, The … Continue reading

© 2014 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from now, Girls in Films, Guys in Films, Interviews, Premium. Tagged black shirt, Brian De Palma, Christopher Cole, colour, dress up, fashion, high heels, interview, Karen Muller-Serreau, Noomi Rapace, palatzo pants, Passion, Paul Anderson, Rachel McAdams, stillios, The Birds, Tippi Hedren, uniform, vest. Bookmark the permalink.

Director Brian De Palma has made movies heavily influenced by Alfred Hitchcock before, but Passion (2012) is the first one whose characters look like they stepped out of one of Hitchcock’s classic films. Karen Muller-Serreau’s bold and colourful costumes communicate … Continue reading