I’ll be in Wardrobe…
Pinned and pent up in The Wardrobe Department…
In film and in life, C.W. is always studying look and style. The look of a character, actor, or actress on screen will make or break his opinion of them.
Is it a place where the screenwriter or director lead him?
We may never know, but what we do know is that The Wardrobe Department here at C.W. Studios celebrates fashion in all forms on screen. We insist you do the same, even if it’s paying a little more attention to what is being worn the next time you watch a film.
The decorators, and wardrobe designers at C.W. Studios have put together something special just for you. Below you will find the looks that dazzle them, and their favorite character outfits on film.
As you all know, C.W.’s favorite saying of all time is:
“Strive to Life, Strive to Style. Try to strive your life around style. Don’t life your style around your wife, don’t waste your wife trying to style your life. Keep life styled while you life your style and strive not to live a life, but instead stride and when life gets you down, don’t smile, but style the life you are living tonight, for when tomorrow comes, a new style will guide your life and your life will guide a new style. So strive with all your might, and arrive to a lifestyle you try and style your life around a lifestyle you like.”
Ah, yes we all know that one well and can recite it to you in that exact order whenever you may ask us to. Soon you will know it by heart.
Moving on…Below you’ll see some of C.W. favorite outfits that have leapt out at him from the screen. Followed by his favorite style movie to date, and his favorite outfit in recent motion picture history!
Keep scrolling and that movie magic will find you in an outfit, or shoes, or an accessory one day when it spots you shopping in a store. It will magnetize itself toward you because it wants to be worn by you. Remember, you don’t wear your clothes. Your clothes wear you.
So scroll and send that style into your future and they will find you…
Now let’s step into Wardrobe.
Ryan Gosling
in
The Place Beyond the Pines
When motorcycle stuntman Luke Glanton turns to robbing banks to provide for the son he never knew he had, he must suffer the consequences when the blue lights come for him.
The Moto-Bandit
Costuming by Erin Benach, Luke is perhaps the coolest character put on screen in recent years. Is the wardrobe designer the reason for this achievement? Maybe. Although director Derek Cianfrance and Screenwriters Ben Coccio and Darius Marder may also be responsible. Captivating every second on screen, The Place Beyond the Pines is a sleeper that most missed, but contains the most exciting first hour on film that C.W. has recently seen. Highly recommended here by the Studio.
Elizabeth Berkley as Nomi Malone in
the underrated,
the uninhibited,
the undisputed…
SHOWGIRLS
THE SHOW…
IS ABOUT TO…
BEGIN.
Kurt Russell Death Proof
Sporting his signature Icy Hot Husky silver satin jacket, the stuntman from 70’s & 80’s television in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof proves to be one of C.W.’s favorite
on screen styles.
Stuntman
Mike
Yes, that’s C.W. in his very own
Stuntman Mike Icy Hot jacket…
in a look almost as iconic
as his Studio is.
Obsessive over cine-style and off-screen fashion, C.W. always works toward improving his own wardrobe, finding fresh new combinations to express his personality and individuality. He is sending style magic into the universe so that you might do the same with your wardrobe, and in your life. Finding out who you are and what your lifestyle will become is part of the fun of life and is a journey of grand proportions. Remember, you don’t wear your clothes, your clothes wear you. Why? Because you are amazing and they having nothing on you, except for when they’re on you… what I’m trying to say is they to want to be on you, and they will if your lifestyle welcomes them. To better explain, here’s style icon and San Diego’s very own Channel 4 Anchorman Ron Burgundy to help...
I want to be on you.
That’s right Ron, just like things, people in your life will also follow the lifestyle that you lead. If they’re right for you and your lifestyle, they will fit you just right.
It’s time for the featured fashion feature-film section of The Wardrobe Department. We’ve touched on it a bit, but it deserves much more attention than just a touch. If you remember from The Set Department, one of C.W. set & fashion favorites… 2013’s The Great Gatsby. Let’s get lost in the closet and in its fashion.
Wasn’t that Grrr…
Grand?
You thought I was going to say Great, didn’t you?
It might just be the best looking film of this generation when it comes to set and costuming. That is why we like to put it on display. C.W. enjoys watching it after he’s had a long day at the typewriter, and after a dinner of a hardy steak and potatoes while he rounds out the evening enjoying a nice thick Cubano cigar and white cake with a glass of Brandy in The Parlor.
Here’s a look at Baz Luhrmann’s captivating vision during the party sequence in The Great Gatsby.
Costumes designed by Catherine Martin…
If we could all dare and dream to be immortalized like that on screen… If you want to read more about what it took to design costume & wardrobe for this wondrous film, click below here.
Captivating? Yes I know…
And now as promised, C.W.’s favorite on screen outfit in recent film history. Iconic, subtle, and outstanding! Cecilia Tallis’s outfit in The 2007 film Atonement worn by Keira Knightley…
Play the song below until the end of The Wardrobe Department. You’ll be glad you did.
Just like that green dress…
C.W. believes in the green light…
Just like Jay Gatsby searching for that green light in the distance, C.W. reaches out for his dreams and lets them come to him. The Wardrobe Department helps get him closer to that green light. And just like Gatsby, he will strive to style, and live a life with a lifestyle he likes.
Together, they will continue their struggle (so they beat on) face all the hardships of reality,
against everything life puts them through (like boats against the current),
only to end up close to where they started. (born back ceaselessly into the past).
- C.W.F. Stonescott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby.
