In light of Ben Wheatley’s new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, Rosie Best returns to the novel and explores how writer and director manipulate one character’s… Read more “Du Maurier, Danvers and dress: clothes and characterisation in Rebecca”
Author: Rosie Best
Conflicting costumes: Lena Horne and colourism
The inconsistencies of Lena Horne’s on-screen image bespeak a star system’s complex relationship with race and ethnicity.
Frozen Fashion: the importance of Queen Elsa’s costumes
The Ice Queen’s costumes play an important part in the film’s storytelling, and in marking her out as a complex and nuanced Disney woman
‘There’s A Million Guys Like Me’: Gene Kelly and ordinary masculinity
Gene Kelly’s on-screen costumes reveal a star preoccupied with his own masculinity
Brow power: the politics of eyebrows
Eyebrows raise some important questions about femininity and feminism
Food theatre: the evolution of gastronomic performance art
A pre-theatre dinner is nothing exceptional, but what about combining the two?
Review: Ocean’s 8
An all-star cast is let down by direction and writing
Judy Garland: the appeal of the unconventional
The actress’s unique, unconventional style could be the key to her lasting appeal
Review: Hamilton
What was it like to be in the room where it happened?
Fashion and femininity at Chanel
Chanel’s latest exploits address their own reliance on problematic models of femininity
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