Fashion Designers On Film Giorgio Armani The Untouchables
Brian De Palma made sure that his recreation of the 1930s underworld was entirely populated with sharp-shooting and equally sharp-suited gangsters when he enlisted Giorgio Armani to design the costumes for his cast. Armani's other film credits include dressing Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne exclusively in his hand-made designs for The Dark Knight, supplying clobber for George and Brad for Ocean's Thirteen and sexing up Richard Gere with a pinsharp wardrobe for his turn in American Gigolo (Gere has worn almost exclusively Armani designs onscreen ever since).
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And where is...
Posted on Tuesday August 4, 2009, 15:13 by Lemure
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover? Seriously! Gaultier knocked that one out the park also. Read More
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Phenomena
Posted on Tuesday August 4, 2009, 15:11 by dsdevenney
My personal favourite fashion/film moment - Armani costume designing Daro Argento's Phenomena - Jennifer Connolly and Donald Pleasance hunting a serial killer, with insect-loving psychics, a glass-shard-wielding chimpanzee and... a bunch of girls running around screaming wearing the coolest 80's Giorgio Armani baggy shirts, printed tee-shirts and faded jeans. Cool. Read More
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Posted on Monday August 3, 2009, 21:11 by bradthunder
Posted on Monday August 3, 2009, 11:47 by Manfrendshensindshen
... that the not so famous, but nonetheless very talented British tailors who have influenced a number of legendary movie characters haven't been mentioned in the list. My top votes would go to Anthony Sinclair, who created the original James Bond look together with Terence Young, and Douglas Hayward, who gave The Italian Job's Charlie Crocker his Swinging Sixties style. Read More
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