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”
Tag: Fashion
Standing out: Zamrock fashion 1970-2020
Hats, bell-bottoms, and high-heeled boots: Mollie Beese speaks to Gio Arlotta about the iconic fashion of the Zamrock music scene
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
Brow power: the politics of eyebrows
Eyebrows raise some important questions about femininity and feminism
Costume in Cléo de 5 à 7
What can we learn from trio of costumes at the heart of Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7?
Fashion and femininity at Chanel
Chanel’s latest exploits address their own reliance on problematic models of femininity
