how about the bikers in THE WILD ONE?
I don’t know if you could consider this a classic film, although I do, but there are some great sixties fashions in the gloriously campy “Valley of the Dolls.” I especially enjoy the sequence where Barbara Parkins is doing an ad for “Gillian Girl” cosmetics. The commentary for this movie, done by Barbara Parkins and Ted Casablanca, is really fun and they talk a lot about the fashions, hair, and makeup. Maybe not Criterion material, but this one’s a real guilty pleasure for me.
“Shampoo,” directed by Hal Ashby, also has some late sixties, early seventies fashions going on. Julie Christie’s backless black dress is particularly memorable.
Audrey Hepburn looks really groovy in “Charade” and “Two For the Road,” although the former is probably more iconic with fashion as well as being a classic film.
And last but not least, and this one’s an American Classic, “Bonnie and Clyde” with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.
Not sure what you’re after here, and not American or Russian, but for a fashion plate (and some tight shots on shoes) Severine Serizy (Deneuve) in Luis Buñuel’s BELLE DU JOUR leaps to mind.
I agree with Anna about “Shampoo” and “Two for the Road”.
For iconic fashion, you can’t go wrong with 007- “Dr. No” (Ursula Andress’ swimsuit) and the girls in “Thunderball”.
How ‘bout Jacqueline Bisset and Steve McQueen in “Bullit”? Not just the clothes, but also the fuckin’ black Ford Mustang!
I’m not quite sure what you meant by Russia in the ’20’s when the Bolshies were running the show – although the great Russian film posters comes to mind, which were brilliant and iconic. How ‘bout Tarkovsky’s “Solaris”? I know it’s from the early "70’s, but cosmonaut Kelvin’s dead wife surely looked like she should be in Vogue mag, or struttin’ in a Paris catwalk for Yves Saint Laurent!
Blow Up is a perfect example for this.
They show you the Fashion of The Swingin London.
Great Movie also
Annie Hall and Doctor Zhivago prompted some copycat looks, and Clark Gable singlehandedly started a run on men’s undershirts with It Happened One Night.
I have a book called ‘Undressing Cinema’ about fashion in film which is really interesting. I recommend.
Funny Face (“Think Pink!”)
Qui Etes-vous Polly Magoo? (William Klein)
Unzipped ( Isaac Mizrahi)
Model (Frederick Wiseman in love with Apollonia von Ravenstein)
The Portrait of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press (Delphine Seyrig and Verushka )
and of course Blow-Up.
Bonnie & Clyde and Annie Hall for sure! What about Flashdance? I know a lot of people who copied that look… unfortunately.
Girl Bites Pen— that book sounds awesome! I’ll have to check it out.
Eva Marie Saint’s red dress in the Chicago hotel room in North by Northwest.
American Gigolo
Desperately Seeking Susan
Annie Hall (Diane Keaton)
Everything Catherine Deneuve wore in Belle de Jour. Yves Saint Laurent!
>.And last but not least, and this one’s an American Classic, “Bonnie and Clyde” with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.<<
Particularly since some of the clothes designed for Dunaway prompted similar styles being sold to the public. I think the little beret-like hats were particularly popular.
Later THE GREAT GATSBY was reflected in clothes sold in stores. I still remember my Baggies-style dress pants…
of course audrey hepburn’s clothes in breakfast at tiffany’s and sabrina.
marilyn monroe’s pink diamond’s are a girl’s best friend gown.
i love ingrid bergman’s outifts from casablanca.
anne bacroft’s clothes from the graduate are some of my favorite from any film.
also katherine ross’s clothes (much more casual than bancroft’s) from the graduate and her clothes from butch cassidy and sundance kid. that white dress that she wore while on she was riding on the front of the bike was beautiful.
I think Audrey Hepburn’s Givenchy dress is amazing in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, also Yohji Yamamoto did some awesome designs in the Japanese film Dolls. Pierre Balmain did costumes for 1961s The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and 1962s Tender is the Night. Also, Christian Dior did some nuce understated costumes in Vittorio di Sica’s Stazione Termini. That all I got off the top of my head though!
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Anything with Audrey Hepburn, in particular Funny Face and Sabrina; Last Year at Marienbad has some stunnning costumes for Delphine Seyrig. Also Singin’ in the Rain has that awesome runway sequence featuring fashions from the 20’s
how ’bout Dietrich in The Devil is a Woman? or that fur outfit in The Scarlet Empress? or especially the top hat and tails in Morocco and in Blonde Venus?
I just read your one year old question but if you’re still interested in fashion in film, I would recommend you my blog (lol) ervehea.blogspot.com where I’m writing about film costumes.;-)
Last Year at Marienbad…
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky-Jan Kounen
Cary Grant is a pretty classic fashion icon of the 1940-60’s in film.
the japanese street fashions of “funeral parade of roses”
A Clockwork Orange, nothing like a white cod piece and one false eyelash
This thread should exist without at least one “Who Are You, Polly Magoo?” reference.
Milena Canonero, especially Barry Lyndon and Chariots Of Fire
Givenchy’s black & white dress that Audrey Hepburn wore in Sabrina
Sandy Powell’s flawless outfits in The Aviator and Mrs Henderson Presents
Edith Head’s range of outfits, I always loved the flight attendent’s uniforms in Boeing Boeing and Bette Davis’ off-the-shoulder dress in All About Eve
Matt Honovic
I’m helping someone brainstorm some fashion ideas, specifically with the themes American Movie Classics or Russia in the 1920s. Does anyone have any films that are as iconic with fashion as they are classic films.
I immediately thought something as striking as Audrey Hepburn or any Michael Caine film in the 60s…. but something recognizeable, even just germs of ideas like “Shoes” inspired by The Wizard of Oz"