11 Aug ’10 © 2010, Clothes on Film The most memorable musical number ever captured on film, and Ginger Rogers’ dress contributes to this greatly. Continue reading 2 Apr ’10 © 2010, Clothes on Film Sandy looks lovely, arguably lovelier than The Pink Ladies, but she looks like the sweet young lady a mother-in-law would adore. Continue reading 10 Nov ’09 © 2009, Clothes on Film One of the most famous costumes in Grease comes from Cha-Cha DiGregorio in her ruffled Flamenco-style dress at the dance-off. Continue reading 22 Sep ’09 © 2009, Clothes on Film Specialist websites suggest for a Pink Lady we need their jacket and a poodle…

31 May ’13 © 2013, HBO Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick brings Liberace back to life on stage and off. Continue reading 29 May ’13 © 2013, Pathe International The first still from Beauty and the Beast, aka La belle & la bête. Costumes by Pierre-Yves Gayraud. Continue reading 25 May ’13 © 2013, 20th Century Fox This week’s other costume design stories and links. Continue reading 23 May ’13 © 2013, Warner Bros. Pictures Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin bring us the twenties reloaded. Continue reading 21 May ’13 © 2013, Clothes on Film Some photographs from the recent So Dior exhibition at Harrods. Continue reading 19 May ’13 ©…

13 Sep ’11 © 2011, FilmDistrict For a guy who prefers the synthetic appeal of satin and alloy, physical contact is a violent business. Continue reading 26 Oct ’10 © 2010, Clothes on Film Part 2 of our examination into how the Alien films have used costume design to contextualise primal terror. Continue reading 19 Oct ’10 © 2010, Clothes on Film In the first of a two-part special, we examine how important costumes from the Alien films are in contextualising primal terror. Continue reading 13 Apr ’10 © 2010, Clothes on Film Only daft final act revelations offer release from Scorsese’s cinematic madhouse. Continue reading

Part two of a new Dual Analysis with Maggie from The Costumer’s Guide. The Young Victoria was a costume flick I’d been looking forward to ever since the first promo pics came out. This is for several reasons – one is that I’d read some great historical fiction about the young Victoria by Jean Plaidy. (She’s got a great reputation as a writer and I think she really captures Victoria and her life. If you’re interested, they are The Captive of Kensington Palace, The Queen and Lord M, The Queen’s Husband, and The Widow of Windsor). But we’re talking costumes. A second reason I was looking forward to this movie…

© 2009, Clothes on Film 5 May ’09 Grace Kelly (as Lisa Fremont) wears five separate outfits in Rear Window (1954) including one negligee. Three of these are exceptional standouts, each neatly representing a different sector of 1950s women’s fashion: dress, casual and tailored. All will be covered in time, but for now let’s start with the ‘fresh from the Paris plane’ dress, as designed by Edith Head, unquestionably the most famous movie costumer of all time; known for her clean and elegant ‘taste maker’ style: Fitted black bodice with deep V cut down to the bust and rear to the small of the back, off the shoulder neckline, cap…

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Public Enemies (2009, directed by Michael Mann) is chock full of accurately recreated and as such eminently covetable, early 1930s era garments, as designed by multi Oscar winner Colleen Atwood. Perhaps most enticing of all, however, is how one particular garment, a plain wool overcoat, actually powers the narrative of the film. It is the coat that killed John Dillinger. When we meet John Dillinger (played by Johnny Depp), his criminal career, primarily as a bank robber, is in full swing. He is wearing that conspicuous badge of honour for all those in his ‘gentlemen’s’ fraternity – expensive clothes. They were the ‘bling’ of their day and tended to be…

© 2009, Clothes on Film 5 May ’09 Grace Kelly (as Lisa Fremont) wears five separate outfits in Rear Window (1954) including one negligee. Three of these are exceptional standouts, each neatly representing a different sector of 1950s women’s fashion: dress, casual and tailored. All will be covered in time, but for now let’s start with the ‘fresh from the Paris plane’ dress, as designed by Edith Head, unquestionably the most famous movie costumer of all time; known for her clean and elegant ‘taste maker’ style: Fitted black bodice with deep V cut down to the bust and rear to the small of the back, off the shoulder neckline, cap…

© 2009, Clothes on Film 4 Jul ’09 Live and Let Die (1973, directed by Guy Hamilton) is a fantasy Blaxploitation movie made in the wake of Shaft and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (both 1971). Roger Moore’s first stab at James Bond pitted his tightly buttoned jackets and high waisted trousers against a bevy of colourful, flared, snap-brimmed seventies street wear as commanded by corrupt diplomat/New York drug kingpin, Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto). For the first time in his existence the world’s foremost super spy would be all but invisible. Except that there were attempts to update 007′s image in line with the fashions of the day. Some worked;…

© 2012, The Weinstein Company 21 Sep ’12 One point of discussion after watching Lawless not involving violence, morals or hairstyles, has been the simple item of clothing worn by Tom Hardy as Forrest Bondurant. It seems that his rudimentary knitwear has caused head-scratching and amusement for some cinemagoers. Yet there is nothing odd in Forrest’s choice of attire, in fact historically speaking for the early 1930s in rural America it is spot-on accurate, not to mention perfectly in tune with his character; a gruff man, comfortable in his own skin, who cares about as much for fashion as he does money. This contrast between the man and his clothing…