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17 Mar ’11 / WATER FOR ELEPHANTS TM and © 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.  All rights reserved.  Not for sale or duplication. © 2011, Lord Christopher Laverty. By Lord Christopher Laverty 0 Comments

A fully long and weird trailer for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland has landed in cyberspace. The costumes are magnifico. Check out the HQ trailer HERE Rather than kick Lewis Carroll’s famous novel off from scratch, Tim Burton has chosen to return Alice (played by Mia Wasikowska) to Wonderland after a hopeless marriage proposal. Judging by this trailer, Burton’s Wonderland will be a place of colourful vistas, colourful characters and with Johnny Depp’s bright orange Mad Hatter barnet, colourful hair. A lot of colour then, basically. The costumes by Burton regular Colleen Atwood (Big Fish, The Silence of the Lambs) are awe-inspiring. Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen is…

Flourishes of brilliance, but buried beneath disjointed action sequences and a story that fails to make any sense at all.

Amelia Earhart was known for her modernistic sense of style throughout the 1920s-early 1930s. Lord Christopher Laverty Comments Off on Trailer for Amelia Touches Down: Radical Fashions 1920s-30s 1 Apr ’14 5 Jan ’12 3 Jan ’12

Tales from the costume crypt. The Talented Mr Ripley Remembering the stellar work of Ann Roth and Gary Jones. Blue Jasmine Costume designer Suzy Benzinger on budgets, Fendi and Cate Blanchett. The Butler Transformations…Ruth Carter discusses mimicking classic fashion designers such as Bill Blass to recreate Nancy Reagan (played by Jane Fonda). Jenn Rogien The Girls’ costume designer is now Gap’s official ‘styled by’ expert. Orange is the New Black More Miss Rogien, this time talking authenticity and maxi-pad shoes. Roman Holiday Just brilliant costume analysis of the film by DTSFT. Elysium A brief chat with costume designer April Ferry. Unsurprisingly, it was Jodie Foster who brought Armani on board.

Analysis of Shawna Trpcic’s subtle costume signifiers with input from the designer herself. Lord Christopher Laverty 2 Comments 16 Apr ’10 19 Jul ’10 11 Feb ’14

Costume designer Jacqueline West talks exclusively to Clothes on Film about her period recreation work on Ben Affleck’s Oscar favourite Argo.

On the eve of Boardwalk Empire: Season 2 commencing, we had a chat with the show’s costume designers John Dunn and Lisa Padovani.

Cosmopolis satisfies as everything avant-garde cinema should be; an immaculate journey into weird. A ferocious work from a filmmaker at the height of his game, Black Swan is an incredibly satisfying piece of cinema.

Anthony Le’s War Machine fan costume is a sight to behold. Lord Christopher Laverty 5 Comments 19 Jun ’15 10 Jul ’09 30 Nov ’13