The Muse: Fashion Inspiration in Film

By: Lauren Kemp

Films with amazing costumes or overall style. If you are looking for inspiration, start with these!

• 01
  Daisies
  Věra Chytilová
• 02
  The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 03
  The Marriage of Maria Braun
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 04
  Nashville
  Robert Altman
• 05
  Grey Gardens
  Albert Maysles
• 06
  Blow-Up
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 07
  Lola
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 08
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 09
  Bad Timing
  Nicolas Roeg
• 10
  The Conformist
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 11
  Marie Antoinette
  Sofia Coppola
• 12
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 13
  Breathless
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 14
  The Red Shoes
  Michael Powell
• 15
  The Virgin Suicides
  Sofia Coppola
• 16
  That Obscure Object of Desire
  Luis Buñuel
• 17
  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  Jacques Demy
• 18
  Bonnie and Clyde
  Arthur Penn
• 19
  Belle de jour
  Luis Buñuel
• 20
  Secretary
  Steven Shainberg
• 21
  French Cancan
  Jean Renoir
• 22
  Performance
  Donald Cammell
• 23
  Cléo from 5 to 7
  Agnès Varda
• 24
  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  Robert Wiene
• 25
  Wings of Desire
  Wim Wenders
• 26
  Picnic at Hanging Rock
  Peter Weir
• 27
  Beauty and the Beast
  Jean Cocteau
• 28
  The Edge of Love
  John Maybury
• 29
  Annie Hall
  Woody Allen
• 30
  Dinner at Eight
  George Cukor
• 31
  The Women
  George Cukor
• 32
  Puce Moment
  Kenneth Anger
• 33
  Myra Breckinridge
  Michael Sarne
• 34
  The Holy Mountain
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
• 35
  Party Girl
  Daisy von Scherler Mayer
• 36
  Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald ou (Méfiez-vous des lunettes noires)
  Agnès Varda
• 37
  The Day of the Locust
  John Schlesinger
• 38
  Heartbeats
  Xavier Dolan
• 39
  Blonde Venus
  Josef von Sternberg
• 40
  Act da Fool
  Harmony Korine
• 41
  Butterflies
• 42
  L'Atalante
  Jean Vigo
• 43
  Mahogany
  Berry Gordy
• 44
  The Bitter Tea of General Yen
  Frank Capra
• 45
  Céline and Julie Go Boating
  Jacques Rivette
• 46
  Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
  Jaromil Jireš
• 47
  Blow Out
  Brian De Palma
• 48
  Dogtooth
  Giorgos Lanthimos
• 49
  Black Girl
  Ousmane Sembène
• 50
  House
  Nobuhiko Obayashi
• 51
  Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
  Albert Lewin
• 52
  Coco Before Chanel
  Anne Fontaine
• 53
  I Am Love
  Luca Guadagnino
• 54
  Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
  D.A. Pennebaker
• 55
  Valley of the Dolls
  Mark Robson
• 56
  Funny Face
  Stanley Donen
• 57
  Ballets russes
  Daniel Geller
• 58
  Barry Lyndon
  Stanley Kubrick
• 59
  Anna
  Pierre Koralnik
• 60
  The Boy Friend
  Ken Russell
• 61
  Birds, Orphans and Fools
  Juraj Jakubisko
• 62
  Irma Vep
  Olivier Assayas
• 63
  Les vampires
  Louis Feuillade
• 64
  2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 65
  Black Orpheus
  Marcel Camus
• 66
  The Young Girls of Rochefort
  Jacques Demy
• 67
  Down with Love
  Peyton Reed
• 68
  Black Swan
  Darren Aronofsky
• 69
  Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
  William Klein
• 70
  The September Issue
  R. J. Cutler
• 71
  Factory Girl
  George Hickenlooper
• 72
  A Single Man
  Tom Ford
• 73
  Valentino: The Last Emperor
  Matt Tyrnauer
• 74
  Yves St. Laurent - His Life and Times
  David Teboul
• 75
  Darling
  John Schlesinger
• 76
  Velvet Goldmine
  Todd Haynes
• 77
  Clueless
  Amy Heckerling
• 78
  Design for Living
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 79
  Piccadilly
  Ewald André Dupont
• 80
  Paris Fashion
• 81
  ...And God Created Woman
  Roger Vadim
• 82
  Candy
  Christian Marquand
• 83
  Wonderwall
  Joe Massot