Category Archives: Film costume
Talking Film Costume: The Royal Tenenbaums
“Don’t shop anything – make everything!” Wes Anderson wanted costume designer Karen Patch to, as much as possible, design and build everything exclusively for the movie The Royal Tenenbaums, which is at its fifteenth anniversary this year. The film-maker … Read More
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Interview with Caroline Young, Writer of Classic Hollywood Style
Fashion in film books are a rare thing. Not only that, but costume designers’ work is often underrated. “Costume is character”, says Martin Scorsese. Film costume isn’t about the dress. Great film costume grounds characters, advances the narrative, speaks … Read More
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The Camel Coat throughout Cinema
Ali MacGraw in Love Story 1970s Ivy League campus… 1960s industrial Milan… 1950s Hollywood… Movie backdrops to most different stories, united by a sartorial canon that advances the concept of style, regardless of character, story, decade: the camel coat. … Read More
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Bond Style, from Connery to Craig
Sean Connery in Dr. No; Daniel Craig in Casino Royale Men are lucky. Not only does an innate sense of style seem to run amok among our male counterparts, but should they ever feel short of sartorial inspiration, then … Read More
Style in Film: Delphine Seyrig in Last Year at Marienbad
A landmark in the world cinema, L’année dernière à Marienbad (1961) is a movie you either love or hate. The first time I saw it I can’t say I liked it and didn’t quite know what to make of it, … Read More
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