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Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick talks exclusively to Clothes on Film about the look of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. It is impossible to wear stripes, contrast collars and cuffs nowadays without ‘doing a Gekko’. Good news for those who enjoyed Bud’s evolution from button-down shirts to striped Gekko shirts and red braces.

Director Bryan Singer has tweeted a revealing photograph of James McAvoy in costume as Charles Xavier on set of X-Men: Days of Future Past. UPDATE (13/05/13): And now he has added another pic, this time of Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Days of Future Past is based on an Uncanny X-Men story published in 1981; part of the story takes place during 1973, part in the future as the original X-Men cast zip through time to stop the world being attacked by mutant sentinels. Xavier seems to be nursing a hippie hangover in this photo, somewhat reminiscent of a scruffier John Tavolta in Saturday Night…

The religious and cultural significance of the costume design in foreign language Oscar winner A Separation. Contributor 4 Comments 19 Dec ’11 15 Mar ’13 31 Jan ’14

Costume designer Jacqueline West talks exclusively to Clothes on Film about her period recreation work on Ben Affleck’s Oscar favourite Argo. Here are some images of the Toy Story gang, principally the one most obsessed by fashion: Ken. Costume designer for Running Scared, Kristin M. Burke, has kindly chatted to us about her contribution to the movie.

The evolving costumes worn by Sandra Dee in classic sixties gender comedy A Man Answers. Contributor Comments Off on Sandra Dee in If A Man Answers: A Salmon Run Up Beacon Hill 9 Oct ’18 1 Jan ’10 21 Dec ’12

James Bond is unlikely to ever again face a group of antagonists so interested in what they are wearing as those in Live and Let and Die (1973). Here freshman 007 Roger Moore faced off against a hotchpotch of hip, and some might say stereotypically racist, New York and Caribbean hoodlums. Yaphet Kotto as Mr. Big lead the fight with his anti-establishment, anti-fashion suits, while his gang reinvigorated the excesses of 1930s street style for a sartorially chaotic decade where elegance would take second billing to experimentation. Experimentation, though, is not necessarily a bad thing. The flared trousers, brightly coloured trilby hats, ginormous shirt collars, heavily lapelled leather coats and…

Jacqueline West is one of the most interesting costume designers we have featured at Clothes on Film. Her credits include The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network and most recently Argo directed by Ben Affleck for which she is CDG nominated (Excellence in Period Film). Yet West did not set out to be a costume designer, instead forging a career in fashion during the 1970s. It was not until director Philip Kaufman hired her to assistant costume Henry & June in 1989 that she tentatively entered the profession and then continued to shine, essentially self-taught from books by the one costume designer she had heard of – Edith…

The evolving costumes worn by Sandra Dee in classic sixties gender comedy A Man Answers. Contributor Comments Off on Sandra Dee in If A Man Answers: A Salmon Run Up Beacon Hill 10 May ’13 7 Mar ’11 6 Jun ’18

To celebrate the release of Oz the Great and Powerful, here is a round up of the best fantasy costume posts at Clothes on Film. Does costume design exist in animated film? Simulation supervisor for Brave, Claudia Chung, discusses its creation, processes and role in the finished movie.

Ruth E. Carter’s work on Do the Right Thing is a masterclass in how costume can influence the look and feel of a film. Contributor 6 Comments 31 May ’13 9 Dec ’14 26 Oct ’10