Costume in the movies I guess this is where a lot of people got into first contact with costumes: a movie. The costumes shown in such a movie might be more or less accurate… but basically, they are – for some people – the chance to fall in love with the period with which the [...]
Movies
Chronicles of Riddick
Costumes of and thoughts and studies on the ‘Chronicles of Riddick’ Note: This is a work in progress. Almost all images I wanted to have here *are* already here, but some of the costume descriptions are still missing my descriptions, which I will have to copy to the appropriate places. This takes some time… as [...]
Titanic – a letter to James Cameron
An open letter to James Cameron Dear Mr. Cameron, while I appreciate your movie ‘Titanic’ from 1997 a lot (otherwise I would not have seen it approximately – and without exaggeration – 200 times, eight of those times in the cinema!) from cinematographic, historical and personal view, I have one question for you. Why, for [...]
Highlander
When I started studying Ramirez’ (Sean Connery’s) wonderful outfit from “Highlander”, I soon found that there are surprisingly few pictures on the net of this really, really great suit and especially the beautiful Peacock cloak. Well, here’s my will to help people out of the dilemma where to get pictures of that outfit…
Brotherhood o.t. Wolf
The costumes from ‘Le Pacte Des Loups’ (Brotherhood of the Wolf) This movie has so many beautiful costumes which, in my opinion, never got the attention they should have. Here’s my tribute to some of them, sorted by the actor wearing the costume in question. A short note in advance: Looking at the movie one [...]
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love There are very, very few movies out there of which I would say that I’d like to reproduce almost *all* costumes from. Shakespeare in Love is one of them. All the costumes in this movie are *mostly* historical – *mostly*, because they include a vast mix over almost 50 years of Elizabethan [...]
Asterix: Mission Cleopatra
While this movie’s costumes are probably not by far historically correct, I find them rather inspiring and am particularly in love with the beautiful black, pearl embroidered corset gown Monica Belluci is wearing as ‘Cleopatra’ in that particular movie in the very last scene. As I’ve been planning to make that particular gown for myself [...]
Orlando (1992)
A few words in advance… Orlando is not a movie one needs to ‘understand’, but it’s a feast for the eyes (settings, costumes, actors) and ears (beautiful lyrics most of the time). If you don’t ask yourself *why* Orlando is living for 400 years and the only thing changing during that time is his/her gender, [...]
The Others
Costumes from ‘The Others’ As one of them – the wine red one which is worn at both beginning and end of the movie – is now on my planning list, I thought it couldn’t hurt to show some of the costumes Nicole Kidman wore in some screen caps. Here’s the gallery: Wine red dress [...]
Sleepy Hollow
This movie has a vast selection of great costumes – of which, unfortunately, only three are somewhat ‘famous’ (all of which I’ve reproduced at least once): The embroidered cloak, the peach and the black and white striped gown – which is funny, as none of those has the longest screen time. I guess it’s because [...]
