Your Favorite Movie Wardrobes

[missbluejean]

^ Loved all those esp. Ed Wood.

^^ I know Beetlejuice actually used Japanese designs but I wonder if Fight Club did as well, or at least with Helena?


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I'm a sucker for Allen & Hitchcock characters too... and the French new wave
Malle (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Les Amants), Chabrol (Merci pour le chocolat, Madame Bovary, The Unfaithful Wife, Les Biches), Godard (Breathless, Alphaville, Vivre Sa Vie)... & Buñuel's French period (Belle de Jour, Tristana, Diary of a Chambermaid)...
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Network (1976)
Days of Being Wild (1990)
Gattaca (1997)
Sliding Doors (1998)
The Painted Veil (2006)
Meek's Cutoff (2010)
The Awakening (2011)

 

[Not Plain Jane]

Okay, so I just rewatched 9 1/2 Weeks; it's a truly dumb movie in so many ways (plot? hello?) but I honestly wanted to watch it to revisit the style - the interiors of places, and the clothing, the wardrobes, are quite beautiful. I love the big sweaters and coats Kim Basinger's character wears; and the sophisticated suits and dresses, too. She really looks great from start to finish imo. And Mickey Rourke - wow he what an incredibly good looking man he was back then, just stunning and almost delicately beautiful. Again, his wardrobe is awesome throughout. Bad film but very stylish, with great great clothes, imo.

 

[mint condish]

^ I'm a huge Kim Basinger fan.
That reminds me of Batman (1989) and My Stepmother is an Alien (1988). She is absolutely stunning in both of those films and I love her wardrobe in both! Not kidding!

 

[KoV]

I really like wardrobes in Woody Allen's recent films. In the past, the clothes were often terrific, but I think they stood out too much and looked a bit costume-y. Whereas in, say, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, it captures the whole linen/easy "look" and makes it look completely natural. Scarlett in the white and yellow button-down shirt and short shorts, Javier's artfully paint-spattered tee, etc. And then in Midnight in Paris, I loved how Owen Wilson's fairly casual clothes looked somehow appropriate for the 2010s AND the 1920s. I love more exuberant costumes in movies, but I also really enjoy thoughtfully dressed characters whose outfits don't scream "look at me!"

 

[BellisVintage]

Audrey Hepburn: Givenchy's Graceful Muse



Hubert de Givenchy and Audrey Hepburn - a match made in heaven. Givenchy intuitively understood Audrey's petite frame - the perfect foil it would seem for the sophisticated and ladylike look of the late 1950s and early 1960s - tiny waist, full skirt - often with underlay and a simply cut bodice, often collarless to show Audrey's swanlike neck.

In turn, Audrey's iconic movies served as the perfect environment for the ultimate catwalk - raising Givenchy's profile. And perhaps due to the timeless design of both the couture and the movies both are still much admired decades later.

Givenchy and Hepburn - classic, refined, urbane style.

The video background music is Goofin' at the Coffee House by Henry Mancini and the movie images are from Sabrina (1954), Funny Face (1957), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963) and Paris When it Sizzles (1964).

 

[imjustken]

Cruella De Vil's wardrobe in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and its sequel 102 Dalmatians (2000) is out of the world ! All about the silhouette, lots of embellishments, very sculptural. Very Mugler, very McQueen, very Gaultier, especially the dragon outfit and the fire dress, both works of art which have been exposed in museums :

 

[imjustken]

Oh and I forgot her first look ! I love how she gets out of the car and comes in the building, Miranda Prestley could never.

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

wow I just saw Dial M for Murder and Grace Kelly's wardrobe was PERFECTION!!! The red dress, the night gown, the gray dress, the brown coat EVERYTHING and all of the men also were dressed to perfection, loved every bit of it

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Excellent!

Maybe my favorite Hitchcock wardrobe is in North by Northwest.
Eva Marie Saint is perfection. Cary Grant and James Mason too.

 

[Drusilla_]

One of mine is In The Mood for Love, the costumes weren't just well presented but also perfectly in keeping with the characters, like Maggie Cheung's impeccable cheongsams that she wears to eat noodles (and which we often see her re-wear, in keeping with her character not exactly being rich). I haven't got over that movie in two decades and I don't think I ever will!

Marie Antoinette (2006) of course, Sofia and Milena Canonero produced one of the greatest visual feasts of the 21st century while also making a point about their characters and old fart male film critics didn't appreciate it at the time but now you see her influence everywhere in the Nu-Period 2020s dramas from The Great to Bridgerton.

I think Star Wars also had some amazing costumes, I got to see Alec Guiness's Obi-Wan Kenobi robe from the 1977 Star Wars at the V&A five years ago and I was astonished to find it wasn't linen as I'd always assumed, but pongee silk! The level of thought and detail that went into those costumes is something else, even if the films themselves aren't exactly GOATs - I loved the rebel costumes in Rogue One too.

 

[Drusilla_]

oh and I forgot to mention another of my all-time favourites - Eiko Ishioka's costumes for Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula! A huge, HUGE part of what elevated that cheesy movie into something I want to watch again because the aesthetics really were 11/10.

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

oh and I forgot to mention another of my all-time favourites - Eiko Ishioka's costumes for Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula! A huge, HUGE part of what elevated that cheesy movie into something I want to watch again because the aesthetics really were 11/10.

Absolutely!

Don't you think that Nosferatu's wardrobe was one of the outstanding features of the Eggers' film?
I personally loved it.

 

[JohannesL]

I haven't watched any films for a long time, but Tilda Swinton's wardrobe in Luca Guadagnino's "Io sono l'amore" comes to mind. Those Jil Sander by Raf ensembles have the timeless appeal even in 2025.