To celebrate the release of Oz the Great and Powerful, here is a round up of the best fantasy costume posts at Clothes on Film. Disney has just released a new international trailer for Brave. Delightful, it is. The best film Pixar have ever made. Clothes on Film caught up with Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich for an exclusive interview. Ken’s camptastic wardrobe was on the agenda. A new clip of Toy Story 3 has hit the internet. It’s got Ken. It’s got Ken wearing jeans. It’s got Ken dancing.

The Levi jacket worn by Ken Takakura as Ken Tanaka in Japan set thriller The Yakuza (1974, costume design by Dorothy Jeakins) is not Japanese denim. It was not made in Japan but is nonetheless representative of a time when denim as symbol of burgeoning Americana in the East would take off into the stratosphere, and has remained so ever since. Although Levi products were imported into Japan before the 1970s (Levi International was created in 1965), it was not until mid-decade that a Tokyo office was established. This was in response to growing popularity of all things American in Japan, especially denim and especially Levi. There was no single…

This week’s costume news. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 27 Apr ’13 26 Oct ’13 17 May ’14

Tarantino, without the extraneous dialogue. The first trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs The World is online. So totally bonkers it makes Kick-Ass look mainstream.

Michael Caine is the epitome of badly folded cool. Lord Christopher Laverty 2 Comments 4 Jul ’09 8 Jun ’10 16 Nov ’09

The best film Pixar have ever made. Lord Christopher Laverty 6 Comments 14 Jul ’17 20 Feb ’10 25 Sep ’18 Clothes on Film caught up with Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich for an exclusive interview. Ken’s camptastic wardrobe was on the agenda. Lord Christopher Laverty 7 Comments 24 Mar ’11 1 Apr ’19 27 Jun ’13

This week’s costume news. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 17 May ’14 23 Mar ’13 1 Jun ’13

This week’s costume news. Thanks to donations from 600 people, $30,000 has been raised to restore fragile dresses from Gone with the Wind.

Michael Kaplan gives Clothes on Film the lowdown on his Star Trek Into Darkness costumes. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on Costume Designer Michael Kaplan on Star Trek Into Darkness 8 Jun ’10 13 Nov ’09 11 Mar ’13

SPOILERS Despite all the hoo-ha over films such as Blue Jasmine and Stoker contemporary is still pretty much overlooked as a form of costume design. If it’s invisible, well, nobody notices it, and if it’s designer it becomes all about ‘the fashion’ (OMG TOTES WANT THOSE SHOES). We are currently in an age when costume design means period and sci-fi. It comes to the extent that if a costumer wants to tell a story through contemporary attire, he/she needs either a director with a key grasp of semiotics, or one that doesn’t care less about semiotics and offers a degree of autonomy. Watching About Time we presume that Richard Curtis……