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Category Archives: Style in film
Dressing the Classes: The Rules of the Game and Gosford Park
How Coco Chanel dressed Jean Renoir’s La règle du jeu and the Chanel English Look in Robert Altman’s Gosford Park. Read More
Film Noir Style: Peggy Cummins in Gun Crazy
What drives her? Bored by normal life, she wants “things”. The desire for “money and all the things it will buy” is what motivates her. In Gun Crazy, Peggy Cummins plays Annie Laurie Starr, one of the deadliest femmes fatales. Read More
Veronica Lake in The Blue Dahlia and Her Star Image Making
In The Blue Dahlia, 1946, Veronica Lake’s wardrobe bore the hallmarks of a film noir protagonist, but it also fit Lake’s star image. Read More
He Wore Black
Paul Newman and Robert Redford in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, 1969 | Campanile Productions, George Roy Hill-Paul Monash Production, Newman-Foreman Company, Twenties Century Fox Henry Fonda gone bad, one of cinema’s most memorable endings with two … Read More
La Gomera: In Conversation with Costume Designer Dana Păpăruz
In our interview, costume designer Dana Paparuz talks colour, costume and visual storytelling in Corneliu Porumboiu’s La Gomera. A neo-noir thriller with inflictions of black humour, a highly stylized world, a clear and intentional departure from the realism of the Romanian New Wave. Read More