Clothes from films set during 1940s Author Caroline Young has just released a fascinating new book entitled Hitchcock’s Heroines (published by… Amongst staggering aural and visual assault, perhaps one of the quietest aspects of Dunkirk (2017,… The 1945 cinematic adaptation of Mildred Pierce, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring, of course,… Friday 6th May sees the release of Florence Foster Jenkins, the 1944 set true story… Twenty-five years ago, costume designer Margot Wilson was a student living in Paris when she… A preview of Clothes on Film editor Christopher Laverty’s article on the vibrant costume design… Cinema Paradiso is a beautiful examination of the relationship human beings have with film.…

A fun glimpse at the bizarre fashions to expect in Catching Fire thanks to costume… Judianna Makovsky’s costume design provides an intentional method of understanding The Hunger Games’ politics. Clothes on Film chats exclusively to Anna B. Sheppard about her work on Captain America:… Some of the finest superhero costume design ever committed to film.

Our first look at Chris Evans’ costume for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Clothes on Film chats exclusively to Anna B. Sheppard about her work on Captain America:… Some of the finest superhero costume design ever committed to film. The first trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger has bish bash boshed onto the…

Costume designer Ann Roth’s template for Working Girl (1988, directed by Mike Nichols) is especially… Second and final part of our retrospective of The Grifters with insight from Mark Bridges. First in our two part retrospective of neo-noir classic The Grifters with exclusive insight from… Goldie Hawn’s unforgettable debut in hot pants and mini skirts in Cactus Flower. The glossy costume world of gangster squad is faithful to history, but not a slave… Costume designer Margot Wilson talks exclusively to Clothes on Film about her impeccable work on… French costume designer Anaïs Romand discusses her work on House of Tolerance (L’Apollonide: Souvenirs de… “Fashion victim” or “ensemble-y challenged”. Examining the…

Kathy Bates portrays Annie as someone with absolutely no sense of her own monstrosity. There is something spiritual about a maxi dress; the way it flows and veils the body. It gels with the divine aspect of Solitaire. Judging solely on this footage, Carey Mulligan’s Jenny goes down the Audrey Hepburn route more than typical teen fashions of the sixties. Quaint in its depiction of an alternative lifestyle, yet still an above average, really quite vicious action thriller. Director Gore Verbinski has left Universal’s adaptation of videogame hit BioShock. Emerges as Quentin Tarantino’s most polished work to date. Betty ‘Rizzo’ played by Stockard Channing is not only the most complex…

The costume style adopted by the movie – which is proving unusual to say the least. Hildy is tenacious and classy, though she’s not graceful. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is too long, the story unfathomable garbage, and even the robots don’t seem that cool anymore. Costume designer Janty Yates has taken time out filming Robin Hood to chat about her contribution to an earlier Scott picture – Hannibal. Names such as Paco Rabanne, Mary Quant, André Courrèges and Tuffin and Foale all contributed to Audrey Hepburn’s wardrobe. If only real hangovers were this much fun. All fashion is retro; everything we wear is influenced by something that has gone…

SPOILERS For anyone with an eye to costume, The Avengers: Infinity War (2018) seemingly takes few evolutionary leaps. This makes perfect sense when we consider the timeline following particularly significant events of Captain America: Civil War (2016) and Black Panther (2017). Infinity War costume designer Judianna Makovsky (previously on board for The Winter Soldier, 2014; Civil War and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2, 2016) has crafted a combination of instantly familiar looks for a jam-packed canon of characters where nobody wants to be missed, but nobody should stick out above anyone else either. It’s a real balancing act, which is something we are should sure Thanos himself would appreciate. Judianna…

Locke (2013, costume design by Nigel Egerton) is a film unique in its restrictions – it takes place in real time, has only one character and only one setting. Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) is driving somewhere important, and over the course of the film’s 85 minute running time, his life gradually begins to crumble around him as he desperately tries to salvage it. The controlled environment – the inside of his car – and the fact that the only character we actually see is Ivan himself means that interest in him is the only way of maintaining an audience’s attention with such limited visual stimulation. Ivan is the only character…

Daphne du Maurier‘s original novel My Cousin Rachel apparently does not specify the exact period in which it’s set, but implies some time toward the end of the 19th century on the Cornish coast. This new version of the story starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin actually positions itself in a specific time frame, as decided upon by director Roger Michell and costume designer Dinah Collin, namely the year 1840. We have an exclusive featurette about the costume design of My Cousin Rachel, which although brief goes into some detail about what to expect from the finished film: What is most fascinating is just why 1840 was chosen. It was…

The merest glimpse at Seth Rogen’s costume for The Green Hornet has turned up online. And it is a glimpse. For those unfamiliar with The Green Hornet, and let’s be honest he is perhaps not that well known outside of fan circles, the premise is classic crime fighter lore. Brett Reid is a newspaper publisher by day, but by night he dons an eye mask and leather gloves to become vigilante ‘The Green Hornet’, ably aided by his chop-socky manservant Kato. The Hornet possesses no superpowers and is not even that strong in a fight. Though he does have a couple of gadgets, namely a gun that fires knock out…