© 2011 Contributor. All rights reserved. By: ContributorFiled under Clothes from 1920s, Girls in Films, Premium. Tagged Amber Butchart, Anna May Wong, Birth of a Nation, blackface, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Broken Hearts DJ, Chinese, Chinoiserie, Coco Chanel, Dragon lady, DW Griffith, flapper, identity, Louis Vuitton, Marlene Dietrich, Mickey Rooney, nightwear, orient, Paul Smith, Piccadilly, Premium Content, qipao, race, Shanghai Express, Theatre of Fashion, yellowface. Bookmark the permalink. Anna May Wong fused East and West against an ill-equipped backdrop of Hollywood cinema. Continue reading

© 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Girls in Films, Guys in Films, News. Tagged 1960s, BAFTA, BBC, Chinatown, Clothes from 1970s, costume, Costume Designers Guild, Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese, Mary Rose, Richard Bruno, Robert De Niro, Rupert Pupkin, The King of Comedy, The Way We Were, wardrobe supervisor, Westworld. Bookmark the permalink. The man who dressed Goodfellas, costume designer Richard Bruno, has died aged 87. Continue reading

© 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1920s, Girls on TV, Premium. Tagged Agent Nelson Van Alden, Atlantic City, Boardwalk Empire, Clothes from 1920s, crepe de Chine, dress, feminine, flapper, frock, hemline, hobble skirt, Irish immigrant, John A. Dunn, Kelly Macdonald, long skirt, Lucy Danziger, Margaret Schroeder, Michael Shannon, Nucky, Paul Poiret, Paz de la Huerta, Premium Content, puritan, ruched, sailor neckline, tea gown, Temperance League, The Ivory Tower, tunic, wide brim hat, Ziegfeld Follies. Bookmark the permalink. Margaret Schroeder is introduced as a world away from the ‘flapper’ set that would come to define the twenties. Continue reading

© 2009 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi, Girls on TV, Guys on TV, News. Tagged AMC, boating blazer, Clothes from 1920s, Comic Con, Jim Caviezel, Patrick McGoohan, Sir Ian McKellen. Bookmark the permalink. Jim Caviezel as new Number Six spends most of his time in the preview footage wearing a green V-neck sweater and matching lightweight zipper. Continue reading

© 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1920s, Girls on TV, Premium. Tagged Agent Nelson Van Alden, Atlantic City, Boardwalk Empire, Clothes from 1920s, crepe de Chine, dress, feminine, flapper, frock, hemline, hobble skirt, Irish immigrant, John A. Dunn, Kelly Macdonald, long skirt, Lucy Danziger, Margaret Schroeder, Michael Shannon, Nucky, Paul Poiret, Paz de la Huerta, Premium Content, puritan, ruched, sailor neckline, tea gown, Temperance League, The Ivory Tower, tunic, wide brim hat, Ziegfeld Follies. Bookmark the permalink. Margaret Schroeder is introduced as a world away from the ‘flapper’ set that would come to define the twenties. Continue reading

© 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1940s, Guys in Films, Premium. Tagged cowboy jacket, dark rinse jeans, David C. Robinson, denim, Ed Harris, Jackson Pollock, James Dean, Jeans, Lee, Lee 101, Lee Krasner, Levi, Marcia Gay Harden, Marlon Brando, Pablo Picasso, Premium Content, t-shirt. Bookmark the permalink. Jackson Pollock spawned a thousand imitators in the art world when he chose to work in denim jeans. Continue reading

© 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1920s, Girls on TV, Premium. Tagged Agent Nelson Van Alden, Atlantic City, Boardwalk Empire, Clothes from 1920s, crepe de Chine, dress, feminine, flapper, frock, hemline, hobble skirt, Irish immigrant, John A. Dunn, Kelly Macdonald, long skirt, Lucy Danziger, Margaret Schroeder, Michael Shannon, Nucky, Paul Poiret, Paz de la Huerta, Premium Content, puritan, ruched, sailor neckline, tea gown, Temperance League, The Ivory Tower, tunic, wide brim hat, Ziegfeld Follies. Bookmark the permalink. Margaret Schroeder is introduced as a world away from the ‘flapper’ set that would come to define the twenties. Continue reading

© 2010 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 2000-10, Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi, Girls in Films, Guys in Films, News. Tagged costume, Jane Goldman, Kick Ass, Mark Millar, Mark Strong, Matthew Vaughn, Nicolas Cage, plaid skirt, Sammy Sheldon, superhero, tonic suit. Bookmark the permalink. Here are some new character posters for Kick-Ass. Peppy costume design by Sammy Sheldon. Continue reading

© 2012 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Girls in Films, Guys in Films, News. Tagged 1960s, BAFTA, BBC, Chinatown, Clothes from 1970s, costume, Costume Designers Guild, Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese, Mary Rose, Richard Bruno, Robert De Niro, Rupert Pupkin, The King of Comedy, The Way We Were, wardrobe supervisor, Westworld. Bookmark the permalink. The man who dressed Goodfellas, costume designer Richard Bruno, has died aged 87. Continue reading

© 2011 Lord Christopher Laverty. All rights reserved. By: Lord Christopher LavertyFiled under Clothes from 1920s, Girls on TV, Premium. Tagged Agent Nelson Van Alden, Atlantic City, Boardwalk Empire, Clothes from 1920s, crepe de Chine, dress, feminine, flapper, frock, hemline, hobble skirt, Irish immigrant, John A. Dunn, Kelly Macdonald, long skirt, Lucy Danziger, Margaret Schroeder, Michael Shannon, Nucky, Paul Poiret, Paz de la Huerta, Premium Content, puritan, ruched, sailor neckline, tea gown, Temperance League, The Ivory Tower, tunic, wide brim hat, Ziegfeld Follies. Bookmark the permalink. Margaret Schroeder is introduced as a world away from the ‘flapper’ set that would come to define the twenties. Continue reading