If you have never found Star Wars in the least bit kinky before, prepare to loosen your breeches. Full trailer for Luc Besson’s Les Aventures Extraordinaires d’Adele Blanc-Sec is now online. It’s the early 20th Century and ladies wore massive hats. As it is the weekend how about some photos from Universal’s upcoming remake of the The Wolfman.

Old fashioned and sentimental, Water for Elephants still has much to offer with its very readable costume design. Some images and the latest trailer from Water for Elephants. Period costume design by Jacqueline West.

Here’s our round-up of the big three costume design award nominations. Hollywood costume comes to London’s Victoria & Albert Museum in the most exciting exhibition of its type ever announced. By no means intended as an exhaustive list, Clothes on Film ponder an overview of 2011 in costume. A classy, very British affair. Lucie Bates exclusively discusses her work on Hanna, inducing parodies, subtext and working with Giorgio Armani. Looking so sexy that the finished film can be nothing but a huge disappointment, this teaser for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ticks all the right 70’s boxes. This emerald green dress from Atonement could be the most famous item of clothing…

Baby’s ascent to womanhood is showcased through her wardrobe choices. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is too long, the story unfathomable garbage, and even the robots don’t seem that cool anymore.

Old fashioned and sentimental, Water for Elephants still has much to offer with its very readable costume design. Some images and the latest trailer from Water for Elephants. Period costume design by Jacqueline West.

Some images and the latest trailer from Water for Elephants. Period costume design by Jacqueline West. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 4 Jul ’14 10 May ’11 22 Nov ’11

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is too long, the story unfathomable garbage, and even the robots don’t seem that cool anymore.

There are many eye-popping moments in Black Book (2006), aka Zwartboek, though probably the most PG friendly is when Carice van Houten transforms into a Resistance beauty of Jean Harlow-esque proportions wearing an unmissable red halterneck dress. Black Book is a World War II set action thriller directed Paul Verhoeven. Based on true events it charts the story of Ellis de Vries (formally Rachel Stein) played by Carice van Houten, a Jewish singer who joins the Dutch Resistance and then infiltrates the German Gestapo. Ultimately, however, the tide turns as she finds herself branded a traitor by her comrades and forced to go into hiding. It is unquestionably Verhoeven’s best…

Costume titbits you may have missed. America Hustle Tom and Lorenzo cast their expert eyes over the American Hustle character posters. Costumer of Awesome Who is the Costumer of Awesome? Whoever he/she is they clearly work in the business and have a unique plus hilarious way of putting said crazy biz in perspective for the rest of us. Sleepy Hollow Why does Ichabod never wash his clothes, you may or may not be daft enough to ask. The Art of Costume Design CUT! Costume and the Cinema – a period costume design exhibit at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas. House of Versace Costume designer Claire Nadon got…

Clothes from films set during 1920s On the eve of Boardwalk Empire: Season 2 commencing, we had a chat with the show’s costume designers John Dunn and Lisa Padovani. On Tuesday 13th September, Clothes on Film makes its television debut chatting about the amazing costume design of Boardwalk Empire. Margaret Schroeder is introduced as a world away from the ‘flapper’ set that would come to define the twenties. Boardwalk Empire heralds the return of the dandy man. A majestic tale set in a buttoned-up world of repressed emotion. The full trailer for HBO’s Boardwalk Empire arrives. Period costume fans, set your jaw to dropped. Angelina Jolie suits the unstructured dresses…