Jane Eyre (2011) - costume design

Check out the wedding outfits for Jane and Rochester, thanks to costume designer Michael O'Connor. (He's also designed the wardrobe for period dramas: The Eagle, Wallis & Edward, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, and Tom Brown's Schooldays and The Duchess for which he won an Oscar.)

These are the outfits worn by Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender in the 2011 film.

Check them out at Hollywood Movie Costumes & Props!

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Videos: True Grit's Costume Designer Mary Zophres

One of the nominees for Best Costume Design for the Academy Awards, True Grit's Mary Zophres chats about the wardrobe for the film...

"I became totally obsessed with the period," she says. "I'd get all my costume housework done during the day and at night, I'd plunk myself down on the floor with 100 swatch books in front of me and figure out what to use on all these different characters. It was fun to put myself in that time and place, before showers, before washing machines, when people had maybe four pieces of clothing and wore them over and over again."

Distrusting old photographs because subjects often posed in clothes provided by portrait studios, Zophres instead pored through 19th century diaries, studied 120-year-old chaps warehoused at the Autry National Center and perused old Montgomery Ward catalogs.

"Back then, men's clothes came in gray, brown and black, period," she says.

Period-correct Western wear meant the actors had to deal with itchy wool coats and coarse cotton undergarments.

"Nothing about the clothing was comfortable," Zophres says. "At the fittings, actors would ask me, 'Can we make these pants a little looser?' and I was like, 'No.' We cut them like pants were cut in the old days, which is really high-waisted. Every button in 'True Grit' was selected with great care."

Quoted from San Francisco Chronicle

See also: Article in LA Times

4:30 min video

51:00 min video

Photo credits: Mary Ellen Mark / Paramount Pictures.

Angels: London's costumier

"Take a tour of Europe's biggest costumier in London with Telegraph correspondent Harry Wallop as the finishing touches are put to the outfits for the second series of Downton Abbey. Angels have been supplying faultless historical outfits and outrageous costumes to the theatre, TV and film industries for 170 years and five generations of the Angel family."
[Telegraph]

Recycled Costumes - the definitive dress?

There's a whole site dedicated to "Recycled Movie Costumes" found in films but just saw this outfit for a campaign by The Sustainable Sirens.

The "Costume Department" dress is the first in a series of posters that will hopefully inspire members in the film making community to use less, recycle more, and help make Hollywood a greener industry.

Featured on cover of The Costume Designer

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Marie Antoinette - picture gallery from 2006 film

Although I never warmed up to Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette, I absolutely loved the vibrant costumes and having a chance to visit 18th century France.
Here are some images from the film. [Source]