I am not quite sure if Martin Scorcese’s Shutter Island, starring Ben Kingsley and Leonardo DiCaprio, looks like a blockbuster, but the wardrobe looks promising!
Set in 1930s London, plenty of costume inspiration to be had…
The painfully beautiful Eva Green (yes, THAT Bond Girl), has been frocked up 1930s style to play a seductive teacher at an all-girls boarding school, for the new film Cracks.
And what did she wear to the premiere? Oh just this old thing…
Enjoy the trailer:
Categories: On Film
More about the film here
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More about the film here
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Adorable playsuits for this chorus rehearsal scene in Mrs Henderson Presents. If you showed up to one of my dance classes looking like this, I’d love you forever…
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Often seen on the red carpet sporting vintage styles, finally we have Diane Kruger in full-out retro glamor, playing a German actress and spy, in Tarantino’s remake of Inglorious Basterds.
She looked a treat at the premiere too:
I just rented Watchmen on DVD, and lord, it’s a great film - the opening credit sequence is amazing! But anyway, of particular interest to Swing Fashionistas, is Carla Gugino playing 1940s superheroine, the original Silk Spectre (aka Sally Jupiter). Check out those victory rolls! Here’s a few more shots from the film, and at the end an unrelated pinup shot of Carla Gugino in a similar Varga girl style. Va va voom!
Above: Left, Cate Blanchett. Right, Katharine Hepburn.
Grey Gardens starring Drew Barrymore as “Little” Edith Bouvier Beale and Jessica Lange as “Big” Edith Bouvier Beale was such a touching and bittersweet film; capturing the essence behind the 1975 documentary. Costume designer Cat Thomas had to span the 1920’s through the 1970’s and did so with a harmonious and humorous eye. Trying to dress characters that were based on true eccentrics~ without turning them in to caricatures~ is crucial not only to believability, but to building a relationship between the character herself and the viewer.
Here she is promoting the movie
Drew at the New York premiere in a beautiful nude, embellished Alberta Ferreti gown with matching fascinator and net veil, a beaded clutch and Roger Vivier heels.
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Leonardo Di Caprio (playing Howard Hughes), Jude Law (playing Errol Flynn), John C. Reilley and Alec Baldwin all get the vintage treatment in The Aviator. Slicked hair, red carpet-worthy tuxedos, 1940s suits and of course, plenty of leather aviator jackets.
Based on a true story, and one that isn’t largely known. Angelina Jolie stars as Christine Collins, a single mother working in 1928 Los Angeles when her son goes missing. A boy is returned to her months later by the police, but she is shocked when she realizes that the boy isn’t her son. Joined by a crusading pastor (John Malkovich), Christine battles for justice against the corrupt L.A.P.D. while she continues to search for her child. Eventually her fight against the cops lands her in a mental hospital, where she is surrounded by others with a similar plight. Directed by Clint Eastwood.
To read more about the true story: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders.
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (played by Francis McDormand) is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Without so much as severance pay, Miss Pettigrew realizes that she must for the first time in two decades seize the day. This she does, by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse (played by Amy Adams). Within minutes, Miss Pettigrew finds herself swept into a heady high-society milieu and, within hours, living it up. Taking the social secretary designation to heart, she tries to help her new friend Delysia navigate a love life and career, both of which are complicated by the three men in Delysias orbit; devoted pianist Michael (played by Lee Pace), intimidating nightclub owner Nick (Mark Strong), and impressionable junior impresario Phil (Tom Payne). Miss Pettigrew herself is blushingly drawn to the gallant Joe (Ciaran Hinds), a successful designer who is tenuously engaged to haughty fashion maven Edythe (Shirley Henderson) the one person who senses that the new social secretary may be out of her element, and schemes to undermine her. Over the next 24 hours, Guinevere and Delysia will empower each other to discover their romantic destinies.
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Set during the Great Depression, Public Enemies is the true story of FBI agent Melvin Purvis’s attempt to stop criminals John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd. The film is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough’s non-fiction book Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34. Christian Bale plays FBI agent Purvis, Johnny Depp plays Dillinger, Marion Cotillard plays Dillinger’s girlfriend Billie Frechette, Channing Tatum plays Floyd and Giovanni Ribisi plays Alvin Karpis.
The film starts in 1933 and is essentially a gangster flick, so expect plenty of three-piece suits, fedoras, overcoats, double breasted jackets, leather gloves, and gangster chic. Looks to be a great flick for vintage car enthusiasts also, chase scenes, crashes and all.
Universal Pictures’ Public Enemies (2009)
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French actress Audrey Tautou (of Amelie fame), plays 1920s fashion designer Coco Chanel in the 2009 film, Coco Avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel).
