Our first proper trailer for After Earth and our first proper look at the ‘life suit’. In a week of exciting trailers, the first for director Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby must surely be the most thrilling of all. The first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of War Horse gallops online and it looks sumptuous. The first trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger has bish bash boshed onto the internet. It’s grim by the coast. A trailer for 1960s set Brighton Rock has arrived online. The full trailer for the Coen brothers’ remake of True Grit starring Jeff Bridges has moseyed onto the internet.

Of course Rear Window wasn’t all about Grace Kelly… Lord Christopher Laverty 4 Comments 1 Jun ’09 10 Nov ’09 1 Jul ’10

Doris Day’s last hurrah for 1950s fashion wearing some of the most exquisite costumes ever seen on screen. The Girl Most Likely To is a film for all those who have been laughed at because of the way they look.

Baby’s ascent to womanhood is showcased through her wardrobe choices. Lord Christopher Laverty 2 Comments 2 Oct ’18 20 May ’09 21 Dec ’12

Piper Perabo chats to Clothes on Film about costume design for her role in Looper. Lord Christopher Laverty 4 Comments 22 Jan ’16 8 Mar ’13 30 Apr ’10

First look at Jenny Beavan’s late Victorian-with-a-twist costumes in action. A prevalent theme in the first episode of Mildred Pierce starring is how domestic costume can be read as a signal for sexual availability. As TracyDi Vicenzo in OHMSS, Diana Rigg wore a daring 1960s wedding ensemble. This coral pink ensemble encompasses and challenges the absolute femininity of Grace Kelly. Old fashioned and sentimental, Water for Elephants still has much to offer with its very readable costume design. This is the most fun and elaborate outfit Grace Kelly wears in To Catch a Thief. The trailer for The Three Musketeers affords the briefest peek at those 17th century costumes. There…

What a busy twelve months it’s been for costume design. Really though, this art, or craft, or business (Deborah Nadoolman Landis insists it is definitely a business) gets more talked about each year. 2013 was especially exciting however as it seemed every month something even more thrilling arrived to fawn over. In the last few weeks alone we have had The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Sleepy Hollow, and now American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street on the horizon. Dipping back further, it was Stoker that got us excited about subtext, The Great Gatsby that slammed the lid on that twenties revival once and for all, and Behind…

What a busy twelve months it’s been for costume design. Really though, this art, or craft, or business (Deborah Nadoolman Landis insists it is definitely a business) gets more talked about each year. 2013 was especially exciting however as it seemed every month something even more thrilling arrived to fawn over. In the last few weeks alone we have had The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Sleepy Hollow, and now American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street on the horizon. Dipping back further, it was Stoker that got us excited about subtext, The Great Gatsby that slammed the lid on that twenties revival once and for all, and Behind…

Throughout The Way We Were, Barbra Streisand wears a mix of period authenticity and contemporary fashion.

Actually that title is a tad misleading – it’s all the clothes worn by Lee Marvin as kick-ass-tough-guy-on-a-mission Walker in Point Blank. This is the second video in a new Clothes on Film feature breaking down costume design in sartorially interesting (or just way cool) movies and, in some cases, television.  Costumed by Margo Weintz, Point Blank is stone-cold neo-noir thriller, one of the best of its kind, focusing on Marvin’s Walker and his score settling against those who double crossed and left him for dead on an abandoned Alcatraz island. The film is known for its sharp suits, which are all covered in the video, but also for some……