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    Sandy Powell | Clothes on Film – Part 2

    Who might win for costume design at the Orange BAFTA Film Awards? Here’s our round-up of the big three costume design award nominations. Hugo is Scorsese’s monument to wonder and excitement. Here Sandy Powell exclusively explains her costume choices to Clothes on Film. An exhibition of British costume design from films such as The King’s Speech and Pirates of the Caribbean opens at the Fashion Museum in July. For those of you lucky enough to live in LA, literally racks of costumes have just on display at The FIDM Museum. Our first Dual Analysis with Costumer’s Guide. To kick off, here is what Chris from Clothes on Film had to…

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    The Hangover: More Costume Questions Answered | Clothes on Film – Part 9717

    Being as she is an extremely nice person, costume designer for The Hangover (2009), Louise Mingenbach, has answered more of your questions about who wears what in the movie. So with some help from her assistant designer Alison McCosh, here we go with the answers… Clothes on Film: Where were Heather Graham’s costumes and sunglasses purchased? Louise Mingenbach: I think most everything was bought and fitted in LA before we left for Las Vegas, except the stripper’s costumes were purchased in Vegas. Her sunglasses were vintage too from a great store here in LA. God, I can picture it…but what’s the name..? I don’t think I can come up with…

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    Kristin M. Burke | Clothes on Film – Part 2

    A few of this week’s interesting costume links. The 1970s was a scary era, not least for clothes. The Conjuring costume designer Kristin M. Burke tells us more. Forgive the self-promotion as we draw your attention to Clothes on Film’s inclusion in book ‘Hollywood Costume’ edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. Read about the clever ‘ordinariness’ of the Paranormal Activity 2’s costume design in an exclusive interview with Kristin M. Burke. Paranormal Activity 2 does look interesting; not least costume wise. In a very ordinary way. Anthony Le’s War Machine fan costume is a sight to behold. Part two of our chat with costume designer for Running Scared, Kristin M. Burke.…