Christine Bieselin Clark | Clothes on Film

Costume news you may have missed. Edith Head Google’s delightful doodle to celebrate the birth of Edith Head on 28th October 1897, showcasing illustrations of her work from A Place in the Sun, White Christmas, Sex and the Single Girl, To Catch a Thief, The Birds and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Costume preview via Trish Summerville and The New York Times – no spoilers. Look out for our own coverage soon. Julien’s Auctions The estate of William Travilla. Get your credit card(s) ready. Columbo New costume Tumblr by Nicolas Magand. Mark this as essential reading forever. Duck Dynasty Well what did YOU wear for…

Costume design reduced to stories and links.

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

The proposed ethos behind Tron Legacy merchandising is more than just product; it’s a lifestyle choice.

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

Tron Legacy arrives in UK cinemas on 17th December, but you can see it over two weeks early! We have TWO PAIRS of tickets to give away to a screening in London’s West End on Thursday 2nd December at 6.00 pm. If that is not an early Christmas present then we don’t know what is. As you are doubtlessly aware, Tron Legacy is the story of 27 year old Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) searching for his missing father Kevin (Jeff Bridges), once the world’s leading video game designer, in a high-tech cyber universe – the ‘Grid’ – where he has been trapped for twenty years. Help comes in the form…

Part 2 of our detailed look at the costumes in Tron Legacy, moving onto specific design elements created for individual characters.

We examine the design of the Tron Legacy light suits in detail including their creation, construction and symbolism.

The full trailer for Sucker Punch has arrived in all its steampunk, cutsey, fairytale and ass kicking glory.