Clothes on film

This stylish grey Glen check suit from North by Northwest is certainly his most well known. Lord Christopher Laverty 11 Comments 16 Sep ’10 1 Jun ’09 17 Nov ’11

Meryl Streep’s timeless Burberry trench coat is one of the most recognisable contemporary costumes of 1970s. Costume wise, This is Jinsy is deliberately bizarre and mismatched. Yet everything makes sense in context. Margaret Schroeder is introduced as a world away from the ‘flapper’ set that would come to define the twenties.

The highly anticipated season five premiere of Game of Thrones aired across the globe this week, giving us tantalising glimpses of where our favorite characters are now. We saw two brief scenes of Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner), who had a major makeover at the end of Season Four. With this new direction in her character, where will she end up in Season Five? In this little addendum to our previous analysis of her wardrobe, we explore the character clues in Sansa’s striking new look (costume design by Michele Clapton). Sansa has not had it easy so far. During the last few seasons she has been trapped in King’s Landing, tortured…

Some official images have surfaced for X-Men: First Class. The sixties costumes vibe is not excessive, however.

MILD SPOILERS Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) is far and away the most ‘A New Hope-like’ film in the series yet. In terms of tone, sure, but particularly costume. What costume designers Glyn Dillon and David Crossman have so expertly achieved with Solo is making a contemporary looking movie set during the late 1960s. Star Wars: A New Hope was released in 1977 which puts Solo’s timeline around a decade before, or likely just over. But hang on, isn’t this a science fiction movie? What does when it’s made have to do with the space opera world being brought to life on screen? Well the seventies in particular was…

Some official images have surfaced for X-Men: First Class. The sixties costumes vibe is not excessive, however.

MILD SPOILERS Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) is far and away the most ‘A New Hope-like’ film in the series yet. In terms of tone, sure, but particularly costume. What costume designers Glyn Dillon and David Crossman have so expertly achieved with Solo is making a contemporary looking movie set during the late 1960s. Star Wars: A New Hope was released in 1977 which puts Solo’s timeline around a decade before, or likely just over. But hang on, isn’t this a science fiction movie? What does when it’s made have to do with the space opera world being brought to life on screen? Well the seventies in particular was…

This stylish grey Glen check suit from North by Northwest is certainly his most well known. Lord Christopher Laverty 11 Comments 18 May ’12 2 Apr ’10 14 Jun ’10

Filmmaker and costume designer Sophie Black recounts her personal interpretation of Heathers, a film defined by vivid visual interpretation. It is just a coincidence that the first time I saw Michael Lehmann’s Heathers (1988) was within hours of the first time I saw David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986), and I immediately made comparisons between the two films which I may have not noticed otherwise. More people are quick to compare Heathers to the work of Tim Burton, because of the associates he had on the film (producer Denise Di Novi and star Winona Ryder, to name but two) and the fact that the candy-coloured suburban setting mirrors that of Edward…

This week’s costume design snippets. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on Costume Stories: This Week, Catching Fire and Mad Men 25 Jan ’14 26 Oct ’13 24 May ’14