Here’s a bit of justified promotion for an event you will absolutely want to see: fashion historian, DJ for Jazz FM, author and Clothes on Film contributor, Amber Jane Butchart, teams up with your very own editor, Christopher Laverty, for an exquisite evening entitled Puttin’ on the Glitz on 28th March in London.
Taking place at the sumptuous, gorgeous, you-really-should-have-been-there-by-now British Library, Amber and Christopher present two separate talks pertaining to the 1920/30’s Jazz Era before coming together to answer questions from the audience. After that, there will be cocktails and period frivolities courtesy of The Vintage Mafia. It all starts at 6.30 pm and finishes around 10.30, so plenty of time to be entertained, educated, and tipsy.
The beautiful British Library is about five minutes walk from King’s Cross and St. Pancras International train stations. Full details on the library website.
The following press release is pulled directly from the British Library website,...
Taking place at the sumptuous, gorgeous, you-really-should-have-been-there-by-now British Library, Amber and Christopher present two separate talks pertaining to the 1920/30’s Jazz Era before coming together to answer questions from the audience. After that, there will be cocktails and period frivolities courtesy of The Vintage Mafia. It all starts at 6.30 pm and finishes around 10.30, so plenty of time to be entertained, educated, and tipsy.
The beautiful British Library is about five minutes walk from King’s Cross and St. Pancras International train stations. Full details on the library website.
The following press release is pulled directly from the British Library website,...
- 3/12/2014
- by Lord Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
In light of Prada, Tiffany & Co., and Brooks Brothers, all producing Great Gatsby inspired lines and the much publicised drama between fashion and costume designers, we should consider the influence that costume has over fashion. The alliance between costume and fashion designers has been both beneficial and contentious. Fashion does have a much longer history than film costume design, but since the beginning of moving pictures, both industries have nurtured an intimate relationship.
In the advent of cinema, fashion was placed centre stage in filmed fashion shows. These fashion shorts slowly evolved from runway shows via the introduction of a stories surrounding the garments (Bruzzi, 4). Early costume design was influenced by current runway fashions, such as Vionnet’s signature bias cut gowns hugging actress’ bodies on the big screen. Starting in the 1930s, costume design and current fashion slowly began to pull away from each other. This changed when MGM...
In the advent of cinema, fashion was placed centre stage in filmed fashion shows. These fashion shorts slowly evolved from runway shows via the introduction of a stories surrounding the garments (Bruzzi, 4). Early costume design was influenced by current runway fashions, such as Vionnet’s signature bias cut gowns hugging actress’ bodies on the big screen. Starting in the 1930s, costume design and current fashion slowly began to pull away from each other. This changed when MGM...
- 5/14/2013
- by Contributor
- Clothes on Film
The Joan Crawford that most of us remember is the terrifying "Joan Crawford" played by Faye Dunaway in "Mommie Dearest." Which is a shame, because it reduces the memory of the accomplished film star to nothing more than a set of horrifying eyebrows, sharp shoulders and a bias against wire hangers. Not that Crawford didn't have her flaws -- which is an incredible understatement, I know. But when you see the earliest photos of the screen legend, it's enough to feel a little sad about this legacy. (And don't get me started about the grotesquely overpowdered image seared into the brain thanks to "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?")
Many are surprised by photos of Crawford in the 1920s and 30s. She had light blue eyes, soft wavy hair and delicate brows. Her bone structure and slim figure perfectly suited the styles of the eras. Early in Crawford's career (she hit...
Many are surprised by photos of Crawford in the 1920s and 30s. She had light blue eyes, soft wavy hair and delicate brows. Her bone structure and slim figure perfectly suited the styles of the eras. Early in Crawford's career (she hit...
- 3/22/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
The Goose Woman (1925), directed by Clarence Brown, just screened at the Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema, accompanied by one of the finest and most remarkable live scores it's ever been my privilege to experience. Jane Gardner's soundtrack, incorporating piano, violin and drums, but also baby cries and a musical saw, was so good I wondered if it might be causing me to overrate the movie, in essence a moderately soapy melodrama, but the fact that no less a figure than Kevin Brownlow, who rediscovered and restored the lost film and supplied the print for the screening, considers it one of his very favorites, reassures me that I haven't taken leave of my critical faculties in a musical rapture.
The plot derives from a true-life murder case, still unsolved, but such open-ended stories have never been Hollywood's bag so this Universal production wraps things up neatly by the end. Part...
The plot derives from a true-life murder case, still unsolved, but such open-ended stories have never been Hollywood's bag so this Universal production wraps things up neatly by the end. Part...
- 3/21/2013
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
With his selection as jury member for the coming Cannes film festival recently announced, it's about time we acknowledged Gaultier's work on such films as The Fifth Element and The Skin I Live In
For as long as movies have been made, costume designers have been indispensible to creating a film's look and defining characters. Yet prior to this year, the last costume designer to sit on the Cannes jury was the spectacular Eiko Ishioka, who made her mark on films such as The Cell and Immortals, way back in 1996.
Who better, then, to thaw the 16 year fashion chill at Cannes than Jean Paul Gaultier? The designer's selection as a jury member for this year's film festival not only serves as a reminder of what Gauilter himself has offered cinema over the years but also draws attention to a relationship between fashion and film that is as old as the medium itself.
For as long as movies have been made, costume designers have been indispensible to creating a film's look and defining characters. Yet prior to this year, the last costume designer to sit on the Cannes jury was the spectacular Eiko Ishioka, who made her mark on films such as The Cell and Immortals, way back in 1996.
Who better, then, to thaw the 16 year fashion chill at Cannes than Jean Paul Gaultier? The designer's selection as a jury member for this year's film festival not only serves as a reminder of what Gauilter himself has offered cinema over the years but also draws attention to a relationship between fashion and film that is as old as the medium itself.
- 5/8/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Joan Fontaine-Charles Boyer in Rare The Constant Nymph on TCM. [Photo: Miriam Jordan, Neil Hamilton in Two Heads on a Pillow.] Besides the Edmund Goulding-directed Joan Fontaine-Charles Boyer-Alexis Smith movie The Constant Nymph, other Library of Congress Film Archive entries on Turner Classic Movies tonight include Two Heads on a Pillow (1934), a B comedy directed by William Nigh, an important late silent-era director (Lon Chaney's Mr. Wu, Ramon Novarro's Across to Singapore) later stuck with second-rate fare. Apparently a sort of Adam's Rib predecessor, Two Heads on a Pillow features former silent-era leading man Neil Hamilton (Batman's Commissioner Gordon) and minor leading lady Miriam Jordan as once-married attorneys involved in a divorce case. It's probably worth watching even if only because of its cast, which also includes silent-era veterans Betty Blythe (the title role in the now-lost The Queen of Sheba) and Claire McDowell (Ramon Novarro's leprosy-stricken mom in Ben-Hur,...
- 9/29/2011
- Alt Film Guide
With love well and truly in the air recently with Prince William tying the knot with the rather lovely Kate Middleton a few days ago, it seems an appropriate time to take a look at some of the most legendary on/off screen couples that have fascinated us film lovers over the years. Chemistry sparks when a real romance lies behind the scenes and when a new relationship begins the tabloids go crazy!
So to celebrate the union of the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge – and to appease my wife’s (yes, we just beat the Royals by getting married on 24th April!) constant requests to chronicle the following – here are the top ten on/off screen lovers the past century has immortalised…
10. Kim Basinger & Alec Baldwin
Back in the early 90s, Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin were one of the more popular on and off screen couples in Hollywood. Meeting...
So to celebrate the union of the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge – and to appease my wife’s (yes, we just beat the Royals by getting married on 24th April!) constant requests to chronicle the following – here are the top ten on/off screen lovers the past century has immortalised…
10. Kim Basinger & Alec Baldwin
Back in the early 90s, Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin were one of the more popular on and off screen couples in Hollywood. Meeting...
- 5/4/2011
- by Stuart Cummins
- Obsessed with Film
With pop’s first lady of bizarre – the indomitable Lady GaGa – returning to the o2 Arena tomorrow for a third time this year, crazy costumes, elaborate set pieces and irritatingly catchy electro/pop beats will once again reign supreme. Whilst GaGa has caused oodles of controversy with a large number of her outfits, there’s no denying that her fashion choices are anything less than theatricality at its most elaborate!
So when would be a better time to take a look at the bizarre offerings from movieland!? Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t, but below are ten costumes that have caused as much controversy, generated as many sniggers and left equal numbers perplexed as Lady GaGa’s pyjamas probably do…
10. Joan Crawford in Letty Lynton (1932)
Ok, so depending on taste this isn’t exactly terrible attire, but it is bizarre! Apparently Crawford hated her shoulders, which were very broad...
So when would be a better time to take a look at the bizarre offerings from movieland!? Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t, but below are ten costumes that have caused as much controversy, generated as many sniggers and left equal numbers perplexed as Lady GaGa’s pyjamas probably do…
10. Joan Crawford in Letty Lynton (1932)
Ok, so depending on taste this isn’t exactly terrible attire, but it is bizarre! Apparently Crawford hated her shoulders, which were very broad...
- 12/15/2010
- by Stuart Cummins
- Obsessed with Film
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