By Katrina Deisler
In his first book founder & editor of hugely successful website, Clothes on Film, Chistopher Laverty explores the relationship between fashion, film, and designers.
The book’s cover features a stunning image of Audrey Hepburn in her most iconic role (Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tifftany’s), is organised as an encyclopedia, chronicling iconic looks from films and the designers who created them. Some of the best known looks include Audrey Hepburn in Two for the Road, Olga Kurylenko’s cocktail dress from Quantum of Solace, and the famous costume from Black Swan. He notes how some designers created looks specifically for films, while others (like Tom Ford) started their careers as costume designers.
Laverty points out a unique aspect of costume design is that the film gives the fashion special meaning “a dress in a movie is just a dress in a movie until meaning is ascribed,” says Laverty in the book’s introduction, “Away from the screen such meaning is completely subjective. That same dress, whether originally worn by Audrey Hepburn as an escort or Olga Kurylenko as a spy, is now exclusively ours.”
Grab your copy, available now for £20.40 on Amazon.