Outlander's Costume Designer on Recreating the Wild Opulence of 18th Century French Fashion
Outlander returns Saturday night, and now that the action has moved to 18th Century Paris, it’s looking lusher than ever.
Here's How You Sit in One of Those Terrifying Bustle Skirts
If you’ve ever looked at one of those outrageous bustled skirts from the late 1880s and wondered how in the hell any of these women managed to sit down, it’s your lucky day.
Designer Kate Hawley Talks The Menacing Beauty of Crimson Peak's Victorian Costumes
Guillermo del Toro is known primarily as an auteur of highly stylized horror and science fiction, but with Crimson Peak, the director has made a film that has captured the imagination of the fashion world. On Tuesday evening, Bergdorf Goodman unveiled a new series of windows inspired by the film, interpreting its…
Spy Eye: An Interview With the Costume Designer for The Americans
Like most married couples, Elizabeth and Philip Jennings have their share of ups and downs, passion and apathy, parenting mishaps and frequent misunderstandings and breakups. Unlike most married couples however, The Jennings, the TV family at the center of The Americans, are also undercover Cold War-era Soviet spies…
Empire's Stylist Explains Cookie's Bossed-Up Fashion Game
Cookie Lyon's bossed-up wardrobe is one of the reasons she's the real star of Empire. She's never seen on screen without some over-the-top fur or leopard garb. The show's costume designer Rita McGhee is the woman who keeps Taraji P. Henson's character and the rest of the cast properly flossed.
The Walking Dead's Costume Designer on Dressing Women for World's End
Life during a zombie apocalypse can get pretty grim. Between roving bands of undead walkers trying to snack on your grey matter and feral humans roasting each other into lunch meat, there's precious little time to think about how you actually look. Eulyn Womble, the Costume Designer for The Walking Dead, is charged…
Want Olivia Pope's Style? Get Tips From Scandal's Costume Designer
Olivia Pope, America's favorite political fixer from ABC's ridiculously addictive Scandal, is a badass mess — but, who cares, it's crazy entertaining and she always looks amazing. For the people out there who are looking to pull off "Washington D.C. HBiC", her modern feminine wardrobe is perfection. Of course, it…
The Hunger Games Has Killed 90s Nostalgia This Weekend, Despite Having Awful Costumes
If you thought that this weekend's new cinema slate could muscle The Hunger Games off of its top perch with a combination of inflated 3D ticket prices and 90s nostalgia, you were sadly mistaken. Neither the 3Dified Titanic sinking, which grossed $17.4 million, nor the fourth tired installment of the American Pie…
More Costume Designers Should Be Household Names
What do Mad Men, Hannah Montana, Sex And The City and Austin Powers have in common? They're all projects with highly recognizable costume design — and the clothes have made the jump to retail. Awesome… unless you're most costume designers.
