© 2009, Clothes on Film 6 Jun ’09 Filed under Clothes from 2000-10, Film Reviews, Guys in Films. Tagged Bradley Cooper, Heather Graham, Todd Phillips, Vegas, Zach Galifianakis. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Starring: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis Directed by: Todd Phillips The Hangover (2009) is hilarious. The Vegas bachelor party gone wrong premise is nothing new, but the story itself progresses so fast and with so many witty one-liners that the crowd of boozy lads this film is clearly aiming at should have a cracking time. Costume (by Louise Mingenbach) plays a big part in The Hangover. The gang: groom Doug (Justin…

Featuring couture as cool and disaffecting its protagonist, Belle de Jour (1967, directed by Luis Buñuel) has much to say through its ambiguous antiplot narrative and can be read effectively through costume. Catherine Deneuve plays Séverine, a bourgeois housewife unable to commit sexually to her husband Pierre (Jean Sorel). Instead she fulfils her sadomasochistic fantasies by becoming prostitute ‘Belle de jour’ at an intimately run brothel. Every afternoon between two and five Séverine services clients of various persuasions as her eyes are gradually opened to the possibility of sexual satisfaction. Yet the deeper she digs the more her bourgeois existence is threatened. Eventually Séverine quits the brothel and returns to…

© 2009, Clothes on Film 20 Jun ’09 Filed under Clothes from 1837-1910, News. Tagged cravat, frock coat, Guy Ritchie, Jude Law, lounge suit, Robert Downey Jr, stiff collar, Victorian. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Not sure if these new posters for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes are Photoshopped portraits or paintings, but either way they give further insight into the costume style adopted by the movie, which is proving unusual to say the least. See them HERE. Ritchie has been adamant for a while now that Holmes would not wear a deerstalker cap or MacFarlane coat, so no surprises there. Watson however is a bit…

© 2009, Clothes on Film 6 Jun ’09 Filed under Clothes from 2000-10, Film Reviews, Guys in Films. Tagged Bradley Cooper, Heather Graham, Todd Phillips, Vegas, Zach Galifianakis. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Starring: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis Directed by: Todd Phillips The Hangover (2009) is hilarious. The Vegas bachelor party gone wrong premise is nothing new, but the story itself progresses so fast and with so many witty one-liners that the crowd of boozy lads this film is clearly aiming at should have a cracking time. Costume (by Louise Mingenbach) plays a big part in The Hangover. The gang: groom Doug (Justin…

© 2010, Clothes on Film 5 Oct ’10 Filed under News. Tagged Coen Brothers, cowboy hat, duster coat, eye-patch, eyepatch, high crown, Jeff Bridges, John Wayne, Mary Zophres, tan, The Big Lewbowski, trailer, True Grit, wide brim. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). The full trailer for Joel and Ethan Coen’s adaptation of True Grit starring Jeff Bridges as Marshal Reuben J. Cogburn has moseyed onto the internet. If this turns out terrible we will eat our oversized cowboy hat. For the uninitiated, True Grit is the story a drunken marshal, Ruuben ‘Rooster’ Cogburn, and his blood quest to find Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), the killer…

© 2011, Revolver Entertainment 11 Jul ’11 Filed under Clothes from now, Guys in Films. Tagged Adam Deacon, Adidas, Anuvahood, Boyz n the Hood, casual wear, cotton, designer, Friday, Gucci, Jazzie Zonzolo, jersey, leather boots, lounge suit, Nike, NWA, Rob Nicholls, single breasted, sportswear, t-shirt, tracksuit, Tyrone, underwear, uniform, urban wear, White Men Can’t Jump. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). Written, directed by and starring Adam Deacon, Anuvahood is the antithesis of grimy thrillers set on run-down London housing estates. This is a bright, vibrant film, its knowing costume design differentiating sharply between individuals and sects within the community. Anuvahood’s protagonist, Kenneth (Deacon), or ‘K’…

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© 2011, Pathé 7 Jul ’11 Filed under Clothes from 1970s, Clothes from 1980s. Tagged Aquascutum, blue suit, Clothes from 1980s, Consolata Boyle, costume, court shoes, crepe, Ferragamo, hat, historical, jacket, Margaret Thatcher, Meryl Streep, padded shoulders, pearls, pencil skirt, period, Phyllida Lloyd, power dressing, The Iron Lady, wool. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL). More straightforward clip than teaser trailer, but worth checking out anyway – surely you must be curious to know if Meryl Streep has nailed the accent? She certainly looks the part. It is appropriate that our first ‘action’ glimpse of Streep’s Margaret Thatcher shows her wearing blue, albeit light which she…

The Untouchables (1987, directed by Brian De Palma) is remembered for, amongst other things, Sean Connery’s accent, that blatant Battleship Potemkin riff with the pram, plus a rather lavish Giorgio Armani wardrobe. Though it was a rough ride getting that look onto the screen. Marilyn Vance-Straker was costume designer for The Untouchables, she created the look for each character. Armani then tailored most of the suits and accessories as per her designs. However, apparently too keen to stamp his house’s identity on garments, Vance-Straker had to re-cut most of the clothes Armani had provided in order to make them suitable for filming. The overall result is as a gorgeous looking…

Second in our two part glimpse at the clothing of The Untouchables (1987). Costume design by Marilyn Vance-Straker, selcted tailoring and suiting by Giorgio Armani. Sean Connery’s character Malone prefers a more relaxed style of dress to Costner’s Elliot Ness, as illustrated the first time we see him out of beat uniform in civvies: Norfolk style jacket in brown twill tweed. Light green shirt with pointed collars and single button cuffs. Red cable knit waistcoat. Brown tweed peaked cap. Dark green loose fitting wool trousers. Black lace-up leather shoes. “Soft clothes” huffs crooked Police Chief Mike Dorsett (Richard Bradford) at Malone’s colourful attire. This is a jibe, but is also…