Costume Designer Sharen Davis talks us through her retro-vision for Looper. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 1 Oct ’09 21 Jun ’13 3 May ’10

If you’re not watching BBC 2’s gangster western Peaky Blinders, stop reading now and seek it out on iPlayer – there’s still one episode left so you have time to join the party. Peaky Blinders is the slow burning tale of a volatile, family led criminal gang, headed by calculating brother Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy), and their rise to power in post-World War I Birmingham. It does not sound glamorous and it isn’t, yet is all the more compelling for embracing the filthy side of what many considered to be the cusp of the ‘Roaring Twenties’. Not in Birmingham it wasn’t. Thankfully Peaky Blinders had costume designer Stephanie Collie (Lock,…

Costume designer Louise Mingenbach worked closely with Zach Galifianakis to create Ethan’s camp and blissfully unaware look. Lord Christopher Laverty 2 Comments 10 Jul ’18 16 Oct ’12 29 Oct ’10

Through Margot, Gwyneth Paltrow became a middle-class fashion icon. Lord Christopher Laverty 4 Comments 1 Jul ’10 11 May ’09 10 May ’13

Costume wise, This is Jinsy is deliberately bizarre and mismatched. Yet everything makes sense in context.

Costume wise, This is Jinsy is deliberately bizarre and mismatched. Yet everything makes sense in context.

Costume’s big stories for the week. Ender’s Game Brief interview with Ender’s Game costume designer Christine Bieselin-Clark – she worked on Tron Legacy with Michael Wilkinson and is a nice person. Gilda Fascinating, clued-up read by Girls do Film (no relation). FIDM More than 120 television costumes on display. Salivating. …and then read this wonderful, in-depth Tyranny of Style review and have a heart attack. House of Cards Costume designer Tom Broecker got in contact to say how much he enjoyed our article. How cool. Gives us an excuse to promote it again, too. Sean Parker’s wedding Costume design – that’s right – costume design by Ngila Dickson (The Lord…

She arrives at the support group just as the hugging begins. “This is cancer, right?” she asks, her pallid skin and sunken eyes suggesting she could well be a sufferer. Except this is a support group for testicular cancer and Marla doesn’t have any balls, not the kind that can be removed by surgery anyway. Mischievous Marla Singer: black fur coat, sunglasses, squashed black hat and breathing through a cigarette. On the surface Marla looks like a femme fatale, though in truth she is not manipulative enough to fit the mould. In Tyler Durden’s words she is “rock bottom”. Once mislaid, now gone for good. As an embodiment of affected…

Through Margot, Gwyneth Paltrow became a middle-class fashion icon. Lord Christopher Laverty 4 Comments 20 Feb ’14 12 Nov ’10 29 Mar ’11

Moments of sartorial significance, and that glimmer of recognition that we feel upon seeing an onscreen outfit worn more than once are found throughout Smooth Talk, Joyce Chopra’s underseen 1986 adaptation of a Joyce Carol Oates short story. The film is rife with all the monotony of life and charming ensembles we expect of a teenage girl in the summer, yet it simultaneously offers complexity and creepiness. Laura Dern plays Connie, an ingénue spending her days as an “unfinished girl, waiting for completion of some sort” (Quart 74). In her essay, “Smoothing Out the Rough Spots: The Film Adaptation of ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’” Rebecca Sumner……