Clothes on film

The London Film Museum has been running an exhibition featuring costumes from 20th Century Fox movies to celebrate the studio’s 75th anniversary. Lord Christopher Laverty 2 Comments 19 Nov ’10 30 Jul ’13 11 Aug ’10

The first still from Beauty and the Beast, aka La belle & la bête. Costumes by Pierre-Yves Gayraud. The trailer for The Three Musketeers affords the briefest peek at those 17th century costumes. The London Film Museum has been running an exhibition featuring costumes from 20th Century Fox movies to celebrate the studio’s 75th anniversary.

The London Film Museum has been running an exhibition featuring costumes from 20th Century Fox movies to celebrate the studio’s 75th anniversary. Lord Christopher Laverty 2 Comments 21 May ’11 16 Sep ’10 23 Oct ’12

Hardly surprising, but Gucci are not that fussed at Ridley Scott making a film out of the most tumultuous period in their history after all. Angelina Jolie is being courted by Ridley Scott to star in ‘Gucci’; a film charting internal power struggles to control the fashion empire. Some on-set photos of Wall Street 2 have just made their way online. Costume designer Janty Yates has taken time out filming Robin Hood to chat about her contribution to an earlier Scott picture – Hannibal.

The religious and cultural significance of the costume design in foreign language Oscar winner A Separation. Contributor 4 Comments 25 Dec ’10 16 Apr ’10 21 Oct ’10

The bleakest Potter outing yet. Hildy is tenacious and classy, though she’s not graceful.

It is impossible to wear stripes, contrast collars and cuffs nowadays without ‘doing a Gekko’. Lord Christopher Laverty 6 Comments 14 Aug ’10 29 Aug ’13 14 Oct ’19

It is impossible to wear stripes, contrast collars and cuffs nowadays without ‘doing a Gekko’. Lord Christopher Laverty 6 Comments 17 Feb ’11 28 Jul ’17 16 Jul ’09

Say you, say costume design. The full trailer for Sucker Punch has arrived in all its steampunk, cutsey, fairytale and ass kicking glory.

Internal Affairs (1990) is an excellent stone cold thriller. The costumes are a subtle tease, revealing personal information that the characters never say out loud. Like many movies released in the late 1980s/1990s, Internal Affairs radiates uneasiness caused by shifting societal attitudes – anything that threatens a straight male chauvinist black-and-white world. Costume designer Rudy Dillon punches through this black-and-white world with ensembles that poke fun at the status quo and subsequently subvert them with eroticism, perhaps ironically using only a colour scheme of black and white. The straight white male chauvinist is Dennis Peck (Richard Gere), a police officer in Los Angeles who controls his colleagues by involving them…