Category Archives: Film costume
Style in Film: The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), four decades apart from Plein soleil, the first adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, is a classic in its own right. It is a brilliant film and this article is dedicated to the style in The Talented … Read More
Talking Film Costume: Lauren Bacall in ”Designing Woman”
“Designing Woman was a designer’s dream come true”, film costume designer Helen Rose said in an interview. They say that the idea for the film came from the MGM head costume designer, but it was in fact based on Woman … Read More
The Everlasting Style of the French New Wave Heroine: Jean Seberg in “Breathless”
The everlasting style of the French New Wave heroine: Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle. Images: screen stills, Classiq Journal. Credit: Les Films Impéria / Les Productions Georges de Beauregard / Société … Read More
Style in film: “The Women”
The Women was one of Adrian’s most influential films. Many present-day designers still point to the 1939 movie as an inspiration. Adapted from a satirical play by Clare Boothe Luce, with a screenplay by Anita Loos, it was directed by … Read More
A serious portrait of a young female bourgeois masochist: Catherine Deneuve in Belle de Jour
Joseph Kessel’s novel Belle de jour, on which the film is based, “is very melodramatic, but very well constructed, and it offered me the chance to translate Séverine’s fantasies into pictorial images as well as to draw a serious … Read More
