MILD SPOILERS Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) is far and away the most ‘A New Hope-like’ film in the series yet. In terms of tone, sure, but particularly costume. What costume designers Glyn Dillon and David Crossman have so expertly achieved with Solo is making a contemporary looking movie set during the late 1960s. Star Wars: A New Hope was released in 1977 which puts Solo’s timeline around a decade before, or likely just over. But hang on, isn’t this a science fiction movie? What does when it’s made have to do with the space opera world being brought to life on screen? Well the seventies in particular was…

With exclusive insight from costume designer Catherine Marie Thomas, we analyse Sandra Bullock’s low volume, big impact wardrobe in The Proposal.

Piper Perabo chats to Clothes on Film about costume design for her role in Looper. Lord Christopher Laverty 4 Comments 30 Apr ’10 20 Jan ’11 9 Feb ’10 Costume Designer Sharen Davis talks us through her retro-vision for Looper. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 9 Nov ’10 19 Jun ’15 21 Jul ’12 A mishmash of sci-fi conventions and clichés cobbled together as something we have never quite seen before. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on Review: Looper 17 Dec ’10 14 May ’10 14 Dec ’12

Costume designer Carloine Harris has recreates the vibrant look of the 1970s. Lord Christopher Laverty 5 Comments 1 Jun ’10 9 Oct ’18 10 Aug ’09

Fashion’s original bad boy Alexander McQueen has died aged just 40 years old. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on Alexander McQueen: Found Dead in London 29 Nov ’10 5 Nov ’10 23 Dec ’09

Public Enemies, the upcoming Michael Mann directed crime thriller, has just updated its marketing campaign with three new poster designs.

Jackson Pollock spawned a thousand imitators in the art world when he chose to work in denim jeans. Denim legitimises Warren Beatty’s character as a man capable of more than posing. James Dean in a pair of Lee 101 Riders jeans was the birth of the American teenager.

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 by their conspicuous presence. One thing that cannot…

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…

The first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of War Horse gallops online and it looks sumptuous. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on Spielberg’s War Horse: First Trailer Arrives 4 May ’11 15 Oct ’13 20 Jan ’14