By creating a costume that can be taken off, even a ‘naked’ one, costume designers help create an important separation between the role and the actor.
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Costume designer Jacqueline Durran draws on 500 years of fashion to create a totally new visual world.
At Georgian masquerade parties, participants flaunted their status, taste and wealth through ostentatious and creative dress.
When is a four-figure handbag a fashion faux pas? When you’re a character in Succession, rubbing shoulders with some of the richest and snobbiest elitists ever committed to screen.
Back in black: the dark aesthetic of the caped crusader has evolved through several eras of iconic batsuits, each one reflecting a different style of Batman film.
Some horror films explore women’s struggles for empowerment, sexual freedom and self-fulfilment. Six movies show the ghost, bride, mother, vampiress, witch and monster as guises of vengeful women.
The hype around the costumes in the film Black Panther shows a need to recognize the legacy of Black style in mainstream fashion.
The hat is an example par excellence of aristocratic excess, the equivalent of a peacock’s tail in seducing the Queen’s subjects.
Few, if any, contemporary costume designers are household names. Some occasionally capture the zeitgeist and break through from big (or small) screen to mainstream fashion – think Catherine Martin and…
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Honorary Research Fellow, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Fashion, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Researcher, School of Communication and Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Research fellow, State Library of Queensland
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Visiting Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University
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Associate lecturer visual arts, artist, PhD, Australian Catholic University
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Assistant Professor of Museology, University of Iceland