(L to R) Legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger?s nemesis, Special Agent Melvin Purvis (CHRISTIAN BALE), meets with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (BILLY CRUDUP) in the new action-thriller from filmmaker Michael Mann, ?Public Enemies?. © 2009, Lord Christopher Laverty. By: Lord Christopher LavertyBookmark the permalink. Full size: 800px × 533px

© 2013 Contributor. All rights reserved. By: ContributorFiled under Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi, Girls in Films, Guys in Films. Tagged 1940s, airforce blue, armour, Bladerunner, blue, Burn Gorman, cardigan, Charlie Day, Charlie Hunnam, coat, epaulettes, Guillermo del Toro, Hannibal Chau, Hellboy, Idris Elba, Kaiju, Kate Hawley, knit, Mako Mori, Pacific Rim, peter pan collar, pilot jacket, Premium Content, red shoes, Rinko Kikuchi, Ron Perlman, sci-fi, Stacker Pentecost, The Hobbit, Transformers, uniform, World War II. Bookmark the permalink. Building character with the costume design of Pacific Rim. Continue reading © 2013 Contributor. All rights reserved. By: ContributorFiled under Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi, Girls on TV. Tagged belt woven, blue,…

29 Mar ’11 Here is an extract from an enlightening interview with Ann Roth, costume designer of Working Girl (1988), The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) and now 1930s set TV drama Mildred Pierce starring Kate Winslet. Read the full interview over at Harper’s Bazaar to learn why costume design is definitely NOT fashion design. Interestingly, Ann Roth touches upon a similar point made by The Tudors’ costume designer Joan Bergin in our exclusive interview. Bergin explains that, like Roth, she creates for characters, not catwalk. This is a common misconception of the costume designer’s role. Sometimes there is overlap, intentional or not, but costumes are intended to serve the narrative;…

31 Jul ’13 Well, two words: Michael Wilkinson. If you love costume and cannot get excited by this trailer then you don’t like costume. Come on, just look at Amy Adams! American Hustle is released in December. © 2013, Chris Laverty.

19 Jul ’13 Director Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim was always bound to be a detailed visual feast of FX, sets and costume design. Nonetheless the real main players in this film wear no costumes at all, the kaiju (Japanese for ‘strange beast’) and the tower-block sized Jaeger robots (German for ‘hunter’) built to defend Earth from their attacks. As such it fell to costume designer Kate Hawley, fresh from The Hobbit’s design team, to emphasise the humanity of Pacific Rim’s smaller-scale, flesh and blood characters. Hawley’s job was made extra difficult because most of these characters are involved in the military Pan Pacific Defence Corps, and yet we arrive…

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