2020-08-19 10:45
Clothes on Film editor Christopher Laverty joins regular From Tailors With Love VLOG hosts Peter Brooker and Matt Spaiser, plus special guest Bobby Morelli of Matched Perfectly, to discuss t… Read More
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2020-07-17 11:25
Just over ten years ago, Inception arrived in cinemas (remember those?) like a well-dressed jigsaw puzzle and caused us all brain ache. As twisty, knotty, turny now as it ever was, director… Read More
2020-05-23 10:25
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 wat… Read More
2020-04-16 12:05
This movie has been gestating for a while, but, at last, we are finally going to see Tom Hardy’s take on a role he was bespoke cut and stitched for: Al Capone.
Capone (formally titl… Read More
2020-04-03 11:25
MINOR SPOILERS
Villains have long been dandies. Dressing loud is an established method of implying wealth and standing, particularly for ‘new money’. In a modern day context… Read More
2020-02-10 13:05
Hark, children, upon the breeze comes a glorious sound. Nay,
’tis not the sweet melody of birdsong, but instead the pained cries of a
thousand apoplectic Twitter-gammon lurching from t… Read More
2020-02-08 14:25
This year, Clothes on Film editor Christopher Laverty is honoured to be joining the ‘Game of Queens’ crew as a guest for pre-Academy Awards chat about the Best Costume Design nom… Read More
2020-02-04 05:56
There are a couple of pieces already online about Linda Muir’s meticulous costume design for 1890s set The Lighthouse – see HERE and HERE. As such, anything we might add would la… Read More
2020-01-31 05:56
It is not entirely clear when The Personal History of David Copperfield takes place, mainly because, as far as we understand, it is not entirely clear when Charles Dickens’ original no… Read More
2020-01-24 08:16
The From Tailors with Love podcast hosted by Peter Brooker and Matt Spaiser should already be on your regular poddy playlist, and now fluffy haired, 70’s serial killer styled editor of… Read More
2020-01-22 19:36
What has to be the final trailer for Blake Lively’s revenge thriller The Rhythm Section has hit and, faithful to the book, it looks to be a kaleidoscope of outfit changes and ludicrous… Read More
2020-01-20 16:56
Troop Zero (2019, directed by Bert & Bertie) is the kind of film you just wish they made more of. A simple, good natured story, well told without an ounce of pretentiousness. A feel-good… Read More
2020-01-17 13:06
Bombshell is a below the belt movie. Specifically legs. Even more specifically, shoes. While director Jay Roach does not spend really any time fetishising shoes in the film – no linger… Read More
2020-01-16 10:56
Well this just looks ridiculous fun. Daniel Radcliffe, who as an actor gets more interesting by the day, running around with guns bolted to his hands trying not to get killed in a deadly gam… Read More
2020-01-01 13:35
This one has been on the list ever since Clothes on Film launched ten years ago. Romancing the Stone (1984), and specifically Kathleen Turner’s character of Joan Wilder in the movie, h… Read More
2019-11-29 06:45
Angel Heart (1987) is not a movie you easily forget; you’ll know if you’ve seen it because you will never look at Robert De Niro in the same way again, that’s for sure. How… Read More
2019-10-14 06:45
There is no doubting that Joker (here played by Joaquin Phoenix) is unlike any movie featuring the character that has EVER been on screen. As costume designer, Mark Bridges embraced the film… Read More
2019-09-23 15:15
Okay, cheesy title but it is kind of true. The Maltese Falcon (1941) provides a wonderful snapshot of men’s shirt collar styles of the time. From Wing to Pin, they are all there and, m… Read More
2019-09-09 10:15
Obviously, Arianne Phillips‘ costume design for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019, directed by Quentin Tarantino) deserves a thorough analysis. However, with the film not yet on blu… Read More
2019-09-02 06:17
Actually that title is a tad misleading – it’s all the clothes worn by Lee Marvin as kick-ass-tough-guy-on-a-mission Walker in Point Blank. This is the second video in a new Clot… Read More
2019-08-19 08:35
As a new feature for Clothes on Film, we will uploading regular videos (say every couple of weeks) to YouTube examining the costume design of new and classic movies, plus selected television… Read More
2019-07-22 12:05
The latest MCU smash-hit, Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), features one of the strangest villains in the wallcrawler’s rogues’ gallery. When it comes to movies based on comic bo… Read More
2019-04-01 11:36
SPOILERS THROUGHOUT
Clearly Us (2019) director Jordan Peele is as interested in the craft of costume as a tool for storytelling as any means available to him (props, sets, score, bunnies… Read More
2018-12-14 07:16
SPOILERS THROUGHOUT
Having recently finished a six week, six episode run on the BBC, John le Carré adapted spy drama The Little Drummer Girl was divisive in terms of audience reaction… Read More
2018-10-25 20:46
MINOR SPOILERS
First Man (2018) is not a movie overly preoccupied with fashion, And why would it be? The focus of the story is astronaut Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) and his journey to beco… Read More
2018-10-12 05:26
MINOR SPOILERS
For all the inevitable chrysalis transformation of singer Ally (Lady Gaga) during A Star is Born (2018, directed by Bradley Cooper), the most subtle, yet real sartorial reflec… Read More
2018-10-09 05:26
Goldmember (2002, directed by Jay Roach), the final film (so far) in the Austin Powers series again shifts its timeline. However, rather than a negligible, though comparatively significant… Read More
2018-10-02 05:26
The second installment (part one HERE) of our extensive interview with Austin Powers trilogy costume designer Deena Appel, this time focusing on The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999, again directed… Read More
2018-09-28 05:46
The latest book by fashion historian, and now TV presenter Amber Butchart (A Stitch in Time on BBC 4 – second season please), is a comprehensively researched stroll through the best dr… Read More
2018-09-25 06:06
With Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), costume designer Deena Appel created one of the most iconic screen looks of all time. That is no overstatement; Austin Powers has bee… Read More
2018-07-10 05:36
MINOR SPOILERS
Movies that feature contemporary fashion, particularly high-end and particularly for women, are a tricky sell costume wise. While men’s semi-formal to formal attire is g… Read More
2018-06-18 05:06
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 de… Read More
2018-06-06 05:56
Author Caroline Young has just released a fascinating new book entitled Hitchcock’s Heroines (published by Insight Editions). It celebrates and studies the women in Hitchcock movies; t… Read More
2018-05-04 09:36
SPOILERS
For anyone with an eye to costume, The Avengers: Infinity War (2018) seemingly takes few evolutionary leaps. This makes perfect sense when we consider the timeline following particu… Read More
2018-04-27 11:06
The Levi jacket worn by Ken Takakura as Ken Tanaka in Japan set thriller The Yakuza (1974, costume design by Dorothy Jeakins) is not Japanese denim. It was not made in Japan but is nonethele… Read More
2018-04-26 10:16
Netflix have released a short featurette about costume design for The Alienist, giving an overall glimpse at the work of Michael Kaplan and his team in putting together the era of 1896, New… Read More
2018-03-23 06:26
SPOILERS
If you’ve heard anything about Phantom Thread (2017, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson), you are bound to uncover a multitude of thoughts on the astounding Academy Award winnin… Read More
2017-12-24 11:36
MINOR SPOILERS
There are already lots of good interviews with Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) costume designer Michael Kaplan on the internet (we recommend this one in particular), so for Cl… Read More
2017-12-15 06:36
MINOR SPOILERS
At a pivotal juncture during the Fathers & Sons episode of Godless (2017), the camera tracks into a pink ribbon tied on the back of young woman’s hair; a woman who i… Read More
2017-11-08 12:16
Costume designer Ann Roth, arguably one of the greatest of her craft still working in Hollywood, has costumed director Steven Spielberg’s latest The Post, and by the looks of this firs… Read More
2017-11-02 00:36
Filmmaker Nic Fforde discusses how he come to realise the importance of costume design in his projects.
Stories in films are all familiar to us in some way, no matter how remote the setting… Read More
2017-11-02 00:26
Clothes on Film were fortunate enough to be invited to a display of costumes from the latest adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express (2017), plus interview its costume designer Alexandra… Read More
2017-08-14 09:36
Brigsby Bear tells the bizarre yet charming tale of a young man, James Pope (Kyle Mooney), who was kidnapped as a baby and subsequently released into the world many years later with no knowl… Read More
2017-07-31 06:56
Amongst staggering aural and visual assault, perhaps one of the quietest aspects of Dunkirk (2017, directed by Christopher Nolan) are its costumes – and this is to its credit. Dunkirk… Read More
2017-07-28 06:16
Despite being set in the present day, the world of Brigsby Bear (2017, directed by Dave McCary) is a cosy 1980s nostalgia affair. Most of what we see either comes from or belongs to another… Read More
2017-07-14 05:46
MINOR SPOILERS
Okja (2017) is the second film that costume designer Catherine George has worked on with director Bong Joon-ho. Their first together, Snowpiercer (2013), despite being lauded… Read More
2017-05-31 17:16
Daphne du Maurier‘s original novel My Cousin Rachel apparently does not specify the exact period in which it’s set, but implies some time toward the end of the 19th century on th… Read More
2017-04-12 07:06
There are already a lot of excellent interviews with Oscar winning Beauty and the Beast costume designer Jacqueline Durran online, so with my limited communication I wanted to ask a little m… Read More
2017-03-31 05:16
MILD SPOILERS
Director Ben Wheatley’s latest, Free Fire, is set in Boston, 1978, but was actually shot in Brighton in 2015. Being as the plot revolves around ten characters involved in… Read More
2017-03-17 12:26
To tie-in with the release of Disney’s new live-action version of Beauty and Beast, the project’s Oscar winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran teamed up with students from Ce… Read More
2017-03-06 06:16
The 1945 cinematic adaptation of Mildred Pierce, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring, of course, Joan Crawford, is a very different beast to the 2011 HBO mini-series starring Kate Winsle… Read More
2017-02-06 06:16
MINOR SPOILERS
Like any film with an extended period of time between the original and sequel(s), T2: Trainspotting (2017) is required to form an immediate connection with its audience. Twent… Read More
2016-11-14 06:46
MILD SPOILERS
The hoodie has as much to say about it’s wearer as, say, the white t-shirt does. By which I mean that, depending on context, it can say anything. The white t-shirt can im… Read More
2016-07-19 09:56
It was late November, 2016 when I visited the set of The Conjuring 2 (directed by James Wan). The reason I never wrote about it for Clothes on Film or anywhere else was because of my officia… Read More
2016-06-10 14:16
It’s the most celebrated, the most special, the most significant watch of all time; Rolex is symbolic of many things in the movies: style, wealth, attitude, and perhaps most importantl… Read More
2016-05-04 12:56
Friday 6th May sees the release of Florence Foster Jenkins, the 1944 set true story of a woman, Ms. Foster Jenkins herself (played by Meryl Streep) who heard nothing but sweet angels in her… Read More
2016-04-15 07:26
Or when your costumes look like a building. Odic Dicks-Mireaux’s designs for High Rise (2016) are far more than that. But for a film set in such a heavily stylised world, especially on… Read More
2016-01-22 06:56
Surely we all know Michael Kaplan by now? Flashdance (1983), Fight Club (1999), Burlesque (2010), Star Trek (2009), and the biggest of the big, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Versatile is not… Read More
2015-12-21 13:26
SPOILERS
Ahead of a detailed interview with Star Wars: The Force Awakens costume designer Michael Kaplan (currently hard at work on Episode VIII), we take a brief look at his undeniable achi… Read More
2015-11-09 07:26
Twenty-five years ago, costume designer Margot Wilson was a student living in Paris when she picked up a roll of red, moire silk fabric during a shopping trip to Milan. She didn’t know… Read More
2015-10-06 05:26
For a big budget movie about a lone astronaut who gets stranded on Mars, the spacesuits in The Martian are surprisingly sober in terms of design. There is an attempt here to make everything… Read More
2015-10-02 05:46
Jacqueline Oknaian has costumed Ugly Betty (2008-10), Sex and the City 2 (2010) and The Big C (2012-13), so it might be fair to say contemporary clothing is her forte. For The Intern she dre… Read More
2015-09-25 05:46
Director Brian Helgeland’s Legend (2015) tells the based-on true story of Ronald and Reggie Kray: twins (both played by Tom Hardy), East End boys, racketeers, murderers, icons. The Kra… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Costume designer Mark Bridges described There Will Be Blood (2007) as his most challenging film, referring to the difficulties he faced in transporting costumes to the remote location in Wes… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This week’s costume design news. Mad Men “She buys her clothes two sizes too small, more 50’s than 60’s.” – Janie Bryant knows her Joan. Yves Saint Lauren… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
For this month’s Fabric of Cinema column in pan-India publication Arts Illustrated, Clothes on Film editor Christopher Laverty discussed the game changing costume design work of Trish… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Costume catch up time. Puttin’ on the Glitz Clothes on Film editor Christopher Laverty will be teaming up with the incomparable Amber Jane Butchart for an exciting talk at the British… Read More
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