evening dress | Clothes on Film

Our thoughts on the costume design in the season 6 premiere of Mad Men.

Doris Day’s last hurrah for 1950s fashion wearing some of the most exquisite costumes ever seen on screen.

Edith Head’s costume design for Vertigo demonstrates the power of clothes in forming identities on-screen.

If there is a more joyous film this year, we haven’t seen it.

Old fashioned and sentimental, Water for Elephants still has much to offer with its very readable costume design.

Beyond Biba: A Portrait of Barbara Hulanicki is a contextualised examination of one woman’s extraordinary influence on popular culture.

Carice van Houten is a Resistance beauty of Jean Harlow-esque proportions in an unmissable red halterneck dress.