Clothes on Film have an exclusive chat with Academy Award winning costume designer Janty Yates about her work on Prometheus. A classy, very British affair.

Ben Affleck’s pseudo-cowboy costume in Argo harks back to the golden age of the sports jacket. Lord Christopher Laverty 11 Comments 17 May ’09 19 Oct ’10 9 Oct ’18

This coral pink ensemble encompasses and challenges the absolute femininity of Grace Kelly. Lord Christopher Laverty 5 Comments 23 Sep ’19 15 Feb ’11 18 Jun ’09

Kurt and Bart are fascinating. Forged as art school drop outs in 1980s New York, their name is now a singular brand to movers and shakers in the media industry. Yet they are two people, two very real people: Kurt Swanson and Bart Mueller, renowned costume designers and wardrobe stylists for film, stage, TV and commercials. Since the early 2000s, Kurt and Bart have really stepped up their work costume designing film (forgive the pun but they actually did costume Step Up 3D), although runaway hit Stoker is arguably their highest profile feature yet. In fact Stoker is the most beguiling film of 2013 so far for costume. This is…

On Meg Ryan’s character Alice, hippie seems like a passing trend rather than a lifestyle choice. Lord Christopher Laverty 4 Comments 31 Aug ’10 1 Jul ’10 11 May ’09

Watch the first trailer for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows and burst with costume excitement. Jack Sparrow has finally become the irritating wiseass who just won’t leave the party. The first trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Costumes are a typically splendid affair.

Costume designer Lindy Hemming chats exclusively to Clothes on Film about her contribution to Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style. Lord Christopher Laverty 3 Comments 12 Nov ’12 27 Feb ’15 10 Feb ’12

Clothes on Film chatted with Darren Aronofsky about the challenges of portraying perfection in Black Swan, method acting and The Wolverine. The international trailer for Black Swan brings anticipation to the max. We have it on good authority that Black Swan is ‘spectacular’ so here are some striking images to get you in ‘that place’.

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) is costume symbolic of its era; the entire film is filtered through a composite mix of tan and beige. Director Robert Benton opted for a permanent autumn in New York City, artistically maintained through its year long storyline. Autumn is interpretable as a transitional season, reflecting the three act journey of the three central characters. Costume designer Ruth Morley dresses Meryl Streep’s absentee mother Joanna head-to-toe in various shades of brown. Joanna’s appearance is regimented by control and routine, and nearly always finished by that epitome of late 1970s chic and impending yuppiedom, a three quarter length Burberry trench coat. Confirmation of the Burberry trench functioning…

Public Enemies (2009, directed by Michael Mann) is chock full of accurately recreated and as such eminently covetable, early 1930s era garments, as designed by multi Oscar winner Colleen Atwood. Perhaps most enticing of all, however, is how one particular garment, a plain wool overcoat, actually powers the narrative of the film. It is the coat that killed John Dillinger. When we meet John Dillinger (played by Johnny Depp), his criminal career, primarily as a bank robber, is in full swing. He is wearing that conspicuous badge of honour for all those in his ‘gentlemen’s’ fraternity – expensive clothes. They were the ‘bling’ of their day and tended to be…