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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 16

    © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Some movie costume related stories you may have missed this week. Continue reading © 2013 Contributor. All rights reserved. We analyse exactly what Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin need to get right for their costume design in The Great Gatsby. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. The latest trailer for Man of Steel makes for one very dark Superman costume. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. If you thought a scorpion embroidered bomber jacket was tough to pull off, just wait until you see Ryan Gosling in The Place Beyond the Pines. Continue reading…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 24

    © 2012 Contributor. All rights reserved. Ruth E. Carter’s work on Do the Right Thing is a masterclass in how costume can influence the look and feel of a film. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Proving that frock coats and heavy lace dresses really are terrifying. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Who might win for costume design at the Orange BAFTA Film Awards? Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Sonia Grande’s costume design for Midnight in Paris offers everything we expect of 1920s Paris and the contemporary nouveau riche. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty.…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 21

    © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Costume Designer Lindy Hemming talks exclusively to Clothes on Film about her work on The Dark Knight Rises. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Christopher Nolan once again shows his appreciation for costume in this immensely satisfying end to the Dark Knight trilogy. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. A look at the costumes you can expect to see and enjoy at Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Second and final part of Clothes on Film’s sartorial run-through of Sherlock Holmes: A Game…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 29

    © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Some of the finest superhero costume design ever committed to film. Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. “It is really a film *about* gloves” Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Michael Caine created Jack Carter, yet his immaculate blue mohair suit was more than a little responsible for creating the myth. Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. First look at Jenny Beavan’s late Victorian-with-a-twist costumes in action. Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Anuvahood showcases urban wear swagger. If you want to belong, you must fit…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 13

    © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Man of Steel costume designer reveals fascinating insight about the film. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Second and final part of our retrospective of The Grifters with insight from Mark Bridges. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. The first trailer for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues steps from the 70’s to the 80’s in vivid style. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Superman’s new costume is underwear with a cape. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. The Wolf of Wall Street trailer brings wide pinstripe…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 11

    © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Costume’s read all about it this week. Eyes of Laura Mars Guise analyses the influential costume classic. Just don’t call it ‘fashion’. The O.C. Tyranny of Style’s fantastic, mammoth look back the costumes of The O.C. Remember Seth’s reindeer Christmas … Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Why does Tippi Hedren wear a green suit in The Birds, and what does it mean? Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Costume design reduced to stories and links. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. There is not man behind the mask; the…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 15

    © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Michael Kaplan gives Clothes on Film the lowdown on his Star Trek Into Darkness costumes. Continue reading © 2013 Contributor. All rights reserved. Analysing the sometimes tense relationship between fashion and costume design. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Pick of the week’s movie and television costume design stories. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Director Bryan Singer has tweeted photographs of Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Jackman and James McAvoy in 1973 costume on set of X-Men: Days of Future Past. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Spoiler warning: The costume…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 12

    © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Muddy looking fantasy fun. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Analysis of Shawna Trpcic’s subtle costume signifiers with input from the designer herself. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake whips out the same suit and hammer. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. UK Lovelace trailer is full of lovely 70’s dresses. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Catch up with the week in costume design. Continue reading © 2013 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. We chat to costume designer Gary Jones…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 19

    © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Les Misérables is drenched in costume symbolism, specifically revolutionary red, white and blue. Subtle was never its intention. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Costume in The Cabin in the Woods is not grand, but it is very clever. All the teenage characters subtly evolve from one horror stereotype to another. Continue reading © 2012 Contributor. All rights reserved. The Phantom of the opera demonstrates that the colour, size and shape of a character’s costumes can communicate on a subliminal level. Continue reading © 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Deborah Nadoolman Landis discusses her Hollywood Costume…

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    Clothes on Film | Screen style & identity – Part 27

    © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Think Lulu’s theme song is the loudest thing in The Man with the Golden Gun? Think again. Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Win a pair of tickets to see Madonna’s controversial costume fest W.E. at The London Film Festival on 23rd October. Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. There is a man on Boardwalk Empire with even more sartorial presence than Nucky Thompson; That man is Chalky White. Continue reading © 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. Blurry and unofficial, but these are definitely photos of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. Continue reading…