Category Archives: Film costume
Jean Seberg’s Look on Screen: A Marker of Modernity
A preppy in Paris. How Jean Seberg as Patricia Franchini strolling down the Champs-Elysées in The New York Herald Tribune t-shirt became a style headline and the star of the French New Wave. Read More
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Renaissance Woman and Dance Hall Days in the Alienated City
Fashion, music and attitude in William Friedkin’s neo-noir, and neon-noir, To Live and Die in L.A. Read More
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François Truffaut’s Heroines
Cinema is a woman’s art, François Truffaut used to say. In his films, too, it’s his feminine characters who are more dynamic, more enterprising, it’s them who direct events. From Catherine Deneuve and Jeanne Moreau to Delphine Seyrig and Fanny Ardant, these are Truffaut’s heroines. Read More
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8 1/2 on Federico Fellini’s Centenary
On Federico Fellini’s centenary, we look back at 8 1/2, his tribute to cinema, the film that marked the apotheosis of his talent, the one that defined “Felliniesque” for good, and Fellini’s alter ego, Marcello Mastroianni. Read More
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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
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