Clothes on film

When Clothes on Film visited The Muppets Most Wanted set back in March of 2013, we were given a tour of the bustling ‘wardrobe’ (their words) department, as overseen by costume designer Rahel Afiley. You can read more about that HERE, but after chasing Ms. Afiley around the room while she was trying to work, we managed to get a bit more out of her about using designer fashion, i.e. Vivienne Westwood, in the film. As always we are pushing the same old costume/fashion debate, though in this instance hearing from a costume designer on the front line is rather enlightening. Focusing specifically on Miss Piggy, for she is the……

Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) has undergone one of the most dramatic transformations over the past three seasons of Game of Thrones. She begins a helpless pawn, but grows into the Mother of Dragons and a conquering hero. Like Sansa Stark, Daenerys’ character development is visually shown in her costumes, designed by Michele Clapton. At the beginning of Game of Thrones, Daenerys is under the tight control of her brother, Viserys. Viserys sees her as nothing more than a tool to get what he wants, arranging a marriage to a terrifying war lord just so he can build himself an army to fight for the Iron Throne. Daenerys is weak and…

A real legend of the industry, costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge, has died. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 14 Aug ’10 13 Jan ’11 23 Aug ’12

With exclusive insight from Leesa Evans, Clothes on Film takes an overview look at the art of comedic costume in Bridesmaids.

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston Directed By: Nicolas Winding Refn On the surface, Drive is effortlessly stylish, old-school filmmaking that luxuriates in its retro fashion. Yet, as Simon Kinnear reveals, underneath the hood, lurks a troubling character study. It has become something of a cliché to acknowledge the debt owed by the Movie Brats of the 1970s to the European auteurs of the 1950s and 1960s. Woody Allen idolised Ingmar Bergman, Paul Schrader wrote a book about Bresson and Dreyer, both Brian De Palma and Francis Ford Coppola ripped-off Antonioni’s Blow-Up, and Scorsese littered his films with allusions to Godard and Visconti. Yet arguably the most blatant steal…

This is the most fun and elaborate outfit Grace Kelly wears in To Catch a Thief. Lord Christopher Laverty 8 Comments 31 Jul ’17 26 Aug ’11 28 Sep ’09

Analysis of Shawna Trpcic’s subtle costume signifiers with input from the designer herself. The bleakest Potter outing yet. If you like Potter, you are going to like this. Cannot say fairer than that.

The fifth season of Breaking Bad was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 3rd June. To celebrate this Clothes on Film has FIVE ‘mobile meth lab’ t-shirts to give away from Level Up Wear (available to buy in July). They look exactly like the image below and go great with jeans. T-shirts are standard gents size medium, so you can either wear it to the pub, sleep in it or pass onto a smaller relative. Breaking Bad is arguably the best thing on television right now so it will be sad to see the show leave our screens for good later this year. It has always been thematically rich and…

A real legend of the industry, costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge, has died. Lord Christopher Laverty 1 Comment 21 Oct ’10 19 Dec ’11 8 Oct ’12

A new, absolutely stonking trailer has dropped for what we confidently predict will be The Best Film Ever Made, Christopher Nolan’s latest, Tenet. It is almost impossible to watch the trailer (below) and not think of Inception (2010), even though this more of a ‘vibe’ thing than any plot familiarity. The plot, of course with this being Nolan, is just scratched upon at this stage. Basically, it’s time about ‘inversion’ and lot of beautiful people in beautiful clothes going on a mission. Another link to Inception is returning costume designer Jeffrey Kurland, back for more sexy menswear that will, with any luck, kick start a NON SKINNY suit and seperates…