The costume vault

We hope you lovely people are all doing fine in these trying times! I’m currently quarantined in my own home, out of a job, and bored out of my mind. So I have been sharing on all my social media my favorite Period Movies (and shows, sometimes) so you can at least feast your eyes on gorgeous Costume Designs until all this finally blows over. Here I'll briefly expand on those recommendations so you'll be able to make a more informed decision when choosing your choice entertainment for the afternoon! Recommendation for MARCH 21st Sofia Coppola’s MARIE ANTOINETTE is an impressionistic take on the character that focuses on the personal, not on the historical. The movie revolves around her personal experience, her feelings. It’s not concerned with action, but with emotion. Precisely because of this, it’s a rather fragmented and episodic narrative that meanders through the runtime as much as the character meandered through her own life. Here, the lush and amazing...

Last December, as 2019 ended, it took me a good two weeks to realize what the arrival of 2020 meant: another decade has come and gone. The 2010s are finally over, and, as any decent blogger knows, the only acceptable way to celebrate this achievement is by making my own Top 10 of the Decade List (even if I might be really late to the party at this point)! I am not going to lie: ensembling this list has been a hard endeavor. Not because there weren't many good costume designs, or because there were too many, but because I truly have a horrendous memory and couldn't, for the life of me, remember which movies had come out in the last decade. This, coupled with the fact that the early 2010s, basking in the post-economic crisis dread, weren't very welcoming to the idea of big productions with luxurious visuals and out there costuming, made the list hard to put together. A brief reminder before I unveil my fabulous list!  What makes a great costume design? Wel...

Hello, fellow costume lovers! I've missed you all so very much! As you all well know, this blog has been on pause for the last year and a half. This has not been exactly a purposeful choice on my part, more like the very definition of life getting in the way. I started a new job back in early 2018 that took a lot of time and a lot of energy, and I also went through a really rough personal time that didn't help with the stress of the new job and didn't make finding time to write any easier. I had tons of ideas for the blog and was really excited to be able to share them with you, so taking a break from creating content was not what I had in mind at all. So, because of that, I was extremely surprised by all you guys who kept coming to the blog, reading, commenting, engaging... you really gave me so much just by knowing I had your support despite the blog not being active. So thank you so much to you all! It is because of that love and support that  I HAVE...

The Oscars have come and gone once more, and so I am faced once again with the task of analyzing and reviewing this year's nominees (and eventually the winner) for Best Achievement in Costume Design. The first of these nominees which I'll be covering in this year's retrospective will be Joe Wright's latest period drama; Darkest Hour , a movie that in the end leaves us quite unimpressed by the effort. It's a paint by numbers movie that even though it boasts of outstanding photography, camera work, and incredible acting talent, still manages to waste it all into a boring, run-of-the-mill script that has nothing new to offer. Darkest Hour  focusses on the one month span between Churchill becoming Prime Minister and his famous "never surrender" speech that marked the decisive moment in which Great Britain decided to confront Germany and Hitler head-on. And while it sounds interesting enough on paper, it doesn't help that it feels that betwe...