© 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1837-1919, Girls in Films, Guys in Films, News. Tagged 1900s, Benedict Cumberbatch, Calvary, costume, David Thewlis, Dreamworks, Emily Watson, Jeremy Irvine, Joanna Johnston, Michael Morpurgo, military, period, Peter Mullan, Richard Curtis, Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg, trailer, Valkrie, War Horse, World War One, WW1. Bookmark the permalink. The first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of War Horse gallops online and it looks sumptuous. Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1960s, Girls in Films, Premium. Tagged 007, 1960s, BlogalongaBond, Bond girl, bra, chiffon, costume, Diana…

© 2010 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi, Clothes from now, Girls in Films, Guys in Films, Interviews, Premium. Tagged 3 pc suit, Anto, Christopher Nolan, Dennis Kim, Eames, Hargate Costumes, Inception, Inception Arthur, Inception raincoat, Jeffrey Kurland, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Leonardo diCaprio, Mary Ellen Fields, Premium Content, symbolic, Tom Hardy, Wally Pfister. Bookmark the permalink. Jeffrey Kurland explains his costume choices for Inception exclusively to Clothes on Film. Continue reading © 2010 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1837-1919, Dual Analysis, Girls in Films, Guys in Films, Premium. Tagged bodice, Costumers…

© 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1960s, Film Reviews, Girls in Films, Guys in Films. Tagged 1960s, bonnet, Bruce Willis, Cape, colour, dress, identity, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Kasia Walicka Maimone, knee socks, Moonrise Kingdom, pink dress, scout uniform, The Darjeeling Limited, Tilda Swinton, trouser suit, uniform, Wes Anderson, yellow dress. Bookmark the permalink. Wes Anderson’s most sartorially significant film yet. Continue reading © 2012 Contributor. All rights reserved. By: ContributorFiled under Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi, Guys in Films, Premium. Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, boiler suit, clone, coverall, Dallas King, Duncan Jones, flight suit, Hawaiian shirt, insignia, Jane…

© 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Costume Stories and Links. Tagged Catching Fire, Catherine Martin, Clueless, Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Do the Right Thing, Drive, FrockTalk, Jill M. Ohanneson, Prada, The Great Gatsby, The Hunger Games. Bookmark the permalink. The week’s big costume design stories and links. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1970s. Tagged Chris Hemsworth, Clothes from 1970s, Daniel Brühl, fur coat, Julian Day, Niki Lauda, Olivia Wilde, ringer tee, Ron Howard, Rush, true life. Bookmark the permalink. The first trailer for mid-1970s set Rush is on-line and Olivia Wilde looks…

© 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Costume Stories and Links. Tagged Amber Butchart, An American Werewolf in London, Bina Daigeler, Cathy A Smith, Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Ellen Crawshaw, FrockTalk, GTA V, Halloween, Hello Tailor, Hollywood Costume, Joe Kucharski, Mindy Kaling, Only Lovers Left Alive, Reign, Rush, Salvador Perez Jr, Shawna Trpcic, The Mindy Project, Thor The Dark World, Wendy Partridge. Bookmark the permalink. An American Werewolf in London A screening at the Billy Wilder theater in Los Angeles on the 26th, with Deborah Nadoolman Landis in attendance to sign copies of her book ‘Hollywood Costume’ (we’re in that!). Shawna Trpcic It’s question time…

© 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Girls in Films, Guys in Films, Interviews, Premium. Tagged Anthony Powell, Basic Instinct, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Burke and Hare, Charlie Chaplin, Coming to America, Costume Designers Guild, Deborah Nadoolman Landis, fedora, Hollywood Costume, Hubert de Givenchy, interview, Marlene Dietrich, Moviescope, Premium Content, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Wizard of Oz, True Grit, V&A. Bookmark the permalink. Deborah Nadoolman Landis discusses her Hollywood Costume exhibition at the V&A. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1970s, Clothes from 1980s, Guys in Films, Interviews, Premium. Tagged Argo, BBC…

© 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Girls in Films, Girls on TV, Guys in Films, Guys on TV, Interviews, Premium. Tagged Amy Westcott, Anna Sheppard, Bérénice Bejo, Black Swan, Boardwalk Empire, Captain America, Cate Blanchett, Contagion, costume, Drive, drop waist dress, Erin Benach, Hanna, hat, Jacqueline Durran, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jane Eyre, Jean Dujardin, Jenny Beavan, Jill Taylor, John Dunn, Juliet Polcsa, Kasia Walicka Maimone, Kate Winslet, Lisa Padovani, Louise Frogley, Lucie Bates, Manon Rasmussen, Marion Cotillard, Mark Bridges, Melancholia, Mia Wasikowska, Michael O’Connor, My Week with Marilyn, Natalie Portman, Premium Content, Renée April, Renne April, Ryan Gosling, Sammy Sheldon, Saoirse Ronan, Sharen Davis,…

© 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. 30 Jul ’13 MINOR SPOILERS ‘Who is behind the mask, the observer or the wearer?’ a question posed by milliner Stephen Jones, who created a series of masks inspired by The Lone Ranger to tie-in with the film’s release. It is an interesting idea, that we are hidden from view in a mask yet paradoxically more visible than ever. No-one knows for sure where masks came from. We can trace their existence back to man’s earliest ancestors, but for what purpose? Entertainment? Disguise? Protection? In cinema the mask has become visual shorthand for the hero, or more accurately the superhero. The Lone…

© 2014 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1960s, Girls in Films, Premium. Tagged festival, flares, flower children, flower power, fringing, Grace Slick, Hippie, Jefferson Airplane, Kaftan, psychedelic, rock, Woodstock. Bookmark the permalink. “We are stardust, we are golden”, sang Joni Mitchell of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, held August 15-18th 1969, at a dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York. … Continue reading © 2014 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi, Guys in Films, Premium. Tagged advertorial, Cape, cloak, Clothes…

© 2015 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1940s, Clothes from 1950s, Interviews, Premium. Tagged 1940s, Australia, Christian Dior, Cinemazzi, Clothes from 1950s, corset, couture, Cristóbal Balenciaga, draping, Dungatar, fashion, French muslin, frocks, hats, interview, jacquard, Kate Winslet, Latana, Lawless, Margot Wilson, Marie Christine Sourris, Marion Boyce, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, New Look, silk chiffon, silk organza, The Dressmaker, Tilly, vintage, Vionnet. Bookmark the permalink. Twenty-five years ago, costume designer Margot Wilson was a student living in Paris when she picked up a roll of red, moire silk fabric during a shopping trip to Milan. She didn’t know why, or what for; she…