Category Archives: Film costume
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
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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
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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
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The Man With No Name, but with an Iconic Look
In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Clint Eastwood subverted the conservative cowboy type and reinvented him as a morally ambiguous drifter. His costumes, from his poncho to the long-waisted olive coat, played their part. Read More
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