Makeover Montage: A Fashion in Film Podcast

We’re wasting no time talking about the Oscar-winning film Poor Things! Costume designer Holly Waddington (The Great, Lady MacBeth, Ginger & Rosa) won the mf’in’ Academy Award for Best Costume Design for this film! Emma Stone (Best Actress winner) stars in this gender-swapped Frankenstein tale about a woman who gets resurrected with a baby’s brain and goes on adventures and sexcapades while dressing to tha NINES! Tune...

Welcome to our Francine Jamison-Tanchuck fan podcast! Listen to us delve into Francine’s beautiful, brilliant costume design for The Color Purple (2023) and her career coming full circle after working on the original 1985 film with costume designer Aggie Guerard Rodgers. (We discussed Francine’s work before for our Boomerang and Low Down Dirty Shame episodes.) Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson) and wide-leg trousers are th...

Every night is girls' night! Prepare your pink outfit because it’s finally time for our Barbie episode! Listen to us discuss the impact of this film on culture and why it had to happen at this moment in time. We unpack Jacqueline Durran’s incredible costumes and have a million #Add2Cart recommendations for our dear listeners. Then, we go off the rails and fantasize about an Emerald Fennell version of the movie (The Ke...

Did you know that costume designers, the majority of whom are women, are paid nearly 30 percent less than other, male-dominated creative department heads? Despite costume design being a pivotal part of storytelling in cinema, it has been historically dismissed as “women’s work,” leading to the artisans being underpaid and under-appreciated in their industry. 

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Pour yourself a nice cool glass of bathwater because we’re talking about Saltburn today! Blaire and Marie break down the mid-2000s looks of the Catton clan whipped up by costume designer Sophie Canale (Bridgerton S2). We reminisce about our chaotic Facebook and Flickr albums and going to Club Bang. We also debate about skirts with leggings(“Is ‘Toddler Style’ fashion gonna make a comeback?”) discuss Jacob Elordi and h...

The Brothers Sun hive, rise up! The show’s costume designer, Vera Chow, joins the pod to tell us how she dressed Michelle Yeoh, Justin Chien, Sam Song, and the rest of the cast for the new Netflix series. If you haven’t binge-watched this hilarious, action-packed show yet, it tells the story of a Taiwanese triad gangster who goes to LA to protect his estranged mother and improv-wannabe brother. Vera talks about how gr...

Live from New York…it’s Saturday Night! SNL’s longtime costume designer, Tom Broecker, is our special guest and we are beyond thrilled! He tells us how he manages to dress the iconic show week after week and gives us the scoop on the costumes for some of SNL’s most legendary characters, like Stefon, The Cheerleaders, and Mary Catherine Gallagher! Tom is also nominated for a CDGA award for the episode with our queen Au...

My colors are blush and bashful! We’re ending Dollyuary, our month-long Dolly Parton celebration, with a classic…Steel Magnolias! After having emotional breakdowns from watching this tear-jerker movie, we get into the fashions of these strong southern belles! Costume designer Julie Weiss (Frida, American Beauty) put this deliciously talented crew of women (Dolly Parton, Sally Field, Julia Roberts, Shirley MacLaine, Da...

Y’all come back now, ya hear? In The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas movie musical, Dolly Parton is Miss Mona, the madam of the local Chicken Ranch, a historic and beloved brothel in a small Texas town. Sheriff Ed Earl (Burt Reynolds) helps out Miss Mona by looking out for the brothel, but the duo runs into trouble when TV personality Melvin Thorpe tries to expose the ranch. Dolly's outfits are a serious boudoir chic ...

Welcome to Dollyuary! It’s Dolly Parton’s birthday month, so it was only natural that we kick off 2024 by paying homage to our country queen, Dolly Parton! We’re workin’ 9 to 5 and going REAL DEEP on the 1980 film’s costume design by thee Ann Roth. Violet (Lily Tomlin), Judy (Jane Fonda), and Doralee (Dolly) are all coworkers who have HAD it with their sexist jerk of a boss (Dabney Coleman), and things get out of hand...

Let ‘em eat cake, baby! To conclude Dunstcember, we’re covering Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film that stars Kirsten Dunst as the controversial (and highly fashionable) Queen of France. Costume designer Milena Canonero won an Oscar for the film and it’s not hard to see why. THE OPULENCE!!! We discuss the pastel Laduree macaron-inspired costumes, the surprise Converse sneaker cameo, and Gwen Stefani's pink om...

“Goodnight, sweet prince. May flights of devils wing you to your rest.” We’ve got Interview With the Vampire on this week’s Dunstcember docket! Costumes are by Sandy Powell (Carol, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Other Boleyn Girl). Blaire educates us on the vampire saga and the toxic relationship between perennial sad boy Louis (Brad Pitt), narcissistic bad-boy Lestat (Tom Cruise), and their adopted daughter Claudia, pl...

Up your ziggy with a wa-wa brush! In All I Wanna Do, our girl Kiki Dunst is a rebel at a 1960s all-girls high school with Gaby Hoffman, Monica Keena, Heather Matarazzo, and Rachel Leigh Cook. The girls are part of a secret club called D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Ravioli), in which they share their post-graduation dreams and vow to help each other attain them no matter what. Once the school threatens to become co-ed, the girls...

I said, Brrr! It's cold in here! Grab your pom-poms because it's time for Bring it On! For our first film for Dunstcember, we’re discussing this 2000 cheer-com starring Kirsten Dunst as the captain of a high school cheerleading squad who discovers her team’s legacy has all been a lie! Costume design is by the amazing Mary Jane Fort (Mean Girls). We talk about the difference between the Toros’ uniforms and East Compton...

To finish October, we’re talking about 2000's Ginger Snaps on the pod this week! The film, which Marie describes as the Canadian precursor to Jennifer’s Body, is about two sisters named Ginger and Brigitte who are super close (and super angsty!). One day, Ginger gets her period for the first time, AND bit by a werewolf, and becomes a real ravenous b****! There are a lot of parallels between this and Jennifer's Body, s...

Keeping with our October whores4horror theme, this episode is on the feminist horror flick Run Sweetheart Run, one of Blaire’s faves! Cherie (Ella Balinska) is a single mom and secretary at an LA law firm who has to go to dinner with her boss’ client. Sure, he may be hot and rich, but he’s actually a bloodthirsty demon who chases her all around the city. Dating in LA is hard! Costume designer Nadine used touches of sy...

What are you waiting for?! The next installment of Marie and Blaire's horror faves for October is "I Know What You Did Last Summer" with costume design by Catherine Adair (Desperate Housewives, Fate: The Winx Saga, Perry Mason). We've already done the sequel (as we sometimes go backward on this here pod), but now is the time to celebrate our Croaker Queen Helen Shivers's (Sarah Michelle Gellar) totally modern cut-out ...

It's time for Hide and Seek! Ahh, the most wonderful time of the year is here. Your favorite Fall Goths are kicking off October with Blaire's favorite, Ready or Not! We discuss the brilliant evolution of Samara Weaving's bridal look and the Robert Palmer video-inspired stylish maids,  courtesy of costume designer Avery Plewes (Painkiller, Scream VI). Tune in now!

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To celebrate the newly opened John Waters: Pope of Trash exhibition at the Academy Museum here in LA, Marie and Blaire are paying tribute to their favorite Filth Elder with Cry-Baby! We talk about the work of the late Van Smith, the costume designer for all of Waters's movies, the enduring style icon that is Wanda Woodward, and the timeless appeal of a black leather jacket. We also discuss the VMAs, Gilmore Girls fall...