A slight but worth watching video about the costume and production design for frothy Walt Disney biography Saving Mr. Banks. If you have not seen the film it won’t spoil anything, and will probably get you wanting to dress in sixties suits and dresses again, like Mad Men did in the early days.

If you live near the Getty Center, there really is no excuse not to attend their Dressing the Part: Historical Costume on Film event.

If you live near the Getty Center, there really is no excuse not to attend their Dressing the Part: Historical Costume on Film event.

Maleficent is a nasty piece of work. She curses a princess, Aurora, to prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die before her 16th birthday. She wears black, has horns on her hat. She is sensational. Disney’s live action interpretation of Maleficent, based on their own adaptation of the Wicked Fairy Godmother in Sleeping Beauty (1959), has just released a teaser trailer. The film follows the story of how Maleficent (played by Angelina Jolie) came to be, from a beautiful kind-hearted girl to the twisted Mistress of Evil, similar in some respects to the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz. Basically a good gal gone bad, and who…

Eiko Ishioka’s dresses for Mirror, Mirror featured in an app? Sure, anything that gets people taking about costume.

A slight but worth watching video about the costume and production design for frothy Walt Disney biography Saving Mr. Banks. If you have not seen the film it won’t spoil anything, and will probably get you wanting to dress in sixties suits and dresses again, like Mad Men did in the early days.

Eiko Ishioka’s dresses for Mirror, Mirror featured in an app? Sure, anything that gets people taking about costume. Innovative costume designer and art director Eiko Ishioka has died aged 73.

With so many movie streaming options now available, we thought we’d draw your attention to one of the best: Curzon on Demand.

Eiko Ishioka’s dresses for Mirror, Mirror featured in an app? Sure, anything that gets people taking about costume.

It was BAFTA/CDG all over again as Sandy Powell won Best Costume Design for The Young Victoria. Big winner was The Hurt Locker for Best Film and Best Director; big winner for Costume Design was The Young Victoria. Quaint in its depiction of an alternative lifestyle, yet still an above average, really quite vicious action thriller.