It’s the best week for costumes in terms of “visibility” nation wide. It’s Halloween, and everyone is talking about costumes. The other 51 weeks of the year…not so much. But, hey, we here at Recycled Movie Costumes are talking about costumes all 52 weeks of the year. All costumes all the time. I eat, sleep and breathe costumes.
Anyone doing anything for Halloween? It’s my favorite holiday, but I am not dressing up, nor passing out candy…I’m kind of a buzzkill, I suppose.
Alright all – we’ve got a beautiful green Spencer and a lovely black, floral blouse for you. Five sightings this week, with two costumes. I wish there was a way to count how many sightings we have. I consider number of costumes + number of sightings. So if we’ve documented (10) costumes, each with two sightings, that would be (10) costumes and (20) sightings. But as you all know, some of our costumes have like, 4, 5, 6, 7 and more sightings. We’ve got 1638 costumes documented at this point, which is…a lot.
It’s the best week for costumes in terms of “visibility” nation wide. It’s Halloween, and everyone is talking about costumes. The other 51 weeks of the year…not so much. But, hey, we here at Recycled Movie Costumes are talking about costumes all 52 weeks of the year. All costumes all the time. I eat, sleep and breathe costumes.
Anyone doing anything for Halloween? It’s my favorite holiday, but I am not dressing up, nor passing out candy…I’m kind of a buzzkill, I suppose.
Alright all – we’ve got a beautiful green Spencer and a lovely black, floral blouse for you. Five sightings this week, with two costumes. I wish there was a way to count how many sightings we have. I consider number of costumes + number of sightings. So if we’ve documented (10) costumes, each with two sightings, that would be (10) costumes and (20) sightings. But as you all know, some of our costumes have like, 4, 5, 6, 7 and more sightings. We’ve got 1638 costumes documented at this point, which is…a lot.
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Halloween is mostly a kids festivity in Germany. For costumes, the carneval/Fasching season is much more important here, although it is more a Western Germany thing while the rest of us participates with way less enthusiasm as the region around Cologne.
Anyhow, my friend and I will attend a screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show tomorrow. I’ve never seen it and she always wanted to. We missed out on the stage version, so the movie it is. Next year we’ll watch The Addams Family musical which I thought was this year already. Oh well.
In terms of costumes, I’ve had two finds this week, although one is older and I just forgot to submit it. Have you seen photos from Vogue World? This year’s theme was Hollywood and they had a lot of original costumes on their runway. Now the question is, should be document all of them as reuses or maybe only add them to those costumes we already have sightings off?
Log in to ReplyI wish we had Carneval here! It sounds so cool!
Rocky Horror is a lot of fun – there is lots of audience participation. It’s very silly, but it’s fun.
Would love to see the costumes you found! Feel free to submit either way you think is best and I’ll adjust if need be.
I saw the Vogue event yesterday and couldn’t wait to talk about it here. Orlando, Moulin Rouge, Black Panther, Dune… The idea of mixing costumes and fashion was great. I haven’t watch the full video but here it is for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd9wKJIF7W4
And an article about it which quite details the clothes: https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/what-is-vogue-world-2025-hollywood
I have the same question than you though. Does it fully count as a reuse? I’m not 100% sure. I mean, it’s quite close to a costume exhibit in a way. We mention them if there’s another reuse, but we wouldn’t make a submission just for it. And yet, it’s so interesting… Could there be a way to do something about the event itself?
I think it should definitely be documented because it is a bit more than a usual costume exhibit, isn’t it? It’s a very public event and they are actually worn by people and not just put on manequins. For me, it falls in a similar category as e.g. the dress that was worn on Dynasty and then also the red carpet later on. Maybe a blog post would be the best way. However it also seems like a lot of work for Katie alone. If a blog post is the way to go, is there anyway to help with that?
And if I remember correctly, there was at least one costume it could also be added to and that is the Dangerous Liasion/Hocus Pocus one. I saw perioddramastyle post it yesterday in their story but I don’t know if they submitted it already. It was worn by Synnøve Årda in the show.
I agree I think it’s a costume documentation. Some of our stuff isn’t strictly movie reuses, so I play fast and loose with how it works. I think I need to try to get the hocus pocus one up on social this week…in the next couple of days, really, as that costume always does REALLY well around Halloween. Thanks for the heads up!
Log in to ReplyThis reminds me that I wanted to actually remind you that the first part of The Witcher‘s fourth season (and the first one with Liam Hemsworth instead of Henry Cavill) comes out tomorrow and that it might be good for socials too since there are some documented reuses already. There are so many releases right now. It’s really hard to keep up. If I’m not wrong, next Monday the Robin Hood series also comes out.
Log in to ReplyYes, there is so much just now! Another Amadeus and another Dangerous Liaisons soon as well.
Log in to ReplyI thought about a blog post, to present the event itself and all, but like you I didn’t want to add this for Katie. It could be great to figure out a way to help on that sort of “bigger” projects, a shared doc or something. I really don’t know anything about that sort of things sorry.
Log in to ReplyThank you for these links! I will definitely document them – if they’re reused somewhere, I think it counts. It’s not necessarily in a movie, but we’ve got a few things that veer off from that documnted here.
Log in to ReplyOkay! How should we divide the work?
Log in to ReplyIf you all just want to submit the costumes in the fashion show as individual pages I will get them up slowly, one by one. I just got the one from Dangerous Liaisons up because of Halloween – and because that dress does really well whenever I post it to social media, haha! But there are some cool costumes from Orlando that I am excited about! The one from Marie Antoinette….I am not sure about….they say it’s the one from the movie, but it just doesn’t look like it to me?
Log in to ReplyI searched and indeed it is not from the movie, but a recreation made specifically for the event: https://www.vogue.com/article/julia-garner-marie-antoinette-vogue-world-2025
” The actor donned a faithful recreation of one of Kirsten Dunst’s 60-plus costumes for Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film, Marie Antoinette. A mirror to the young queen’s lavish lifestyle at Versailles, the decadent dress—designed by Milena Canonero and reproduced by Tirelli especially for Vogue World Hollywood—took a “more is more” approach. “
I am a bit confused because at first they say “a faithful recreation” and then imply they added stuff? I’d need to recheck the costume from Marie-Antoinette but anyway, we now know for sure it is not from the movie (despite what vogue own articles said elsewhere….)
Log in to ReplyJulia Garner (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQS6kHLidvd/) sure knew how to play and have fun with it and I’m really impressed by her ability to hop and canter around in those shoes. But the creative bits in this actually pretty faithful recreation … rather hurt the design imo – all while it just seems to be a question of positioning the decorative pleats densly or more fluffily on the bodice and putting a brooch on top of it. The film/PR showed the design with and without the attachable sleeves. Other than that I cannot make out any differences? 
BTW, here (https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fthree-milena-canonaro-costumes-from-sophia-coppolas-marie-v0-sbyavpxm7crf1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dc9cab8833eb3e1e47f25591aeb9fdc8057166467) are photos from the current and quite sensational looking Marie Antoinette Style (https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/marie-antoinette) exhibition at the V&A in London that show the dress from the movie – or a double as the pleats on the bodice – again – look different and the ribbons that attach sleeves to bodice are especially punched in circular shapes that I couldn’t make out on either Garner’s recreation or the gown Dunst wears in movie/BTS stills.
PS: I can’t seem to work links/webpics into the text via button, so, sorry for the unseemly urls (might be issues with my senile browser).
Log in to ReplyThank you! This is super helpful!
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Halloween is mostly a kids festivity in Germany. For costumes, the carneval/Fasching season is much more important here, although it is more a Western Germany thing while the rest of us participates with way less enthusiasm as the region around Cologne.
Anyhow, my friend and I will attend a screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show tomorrow. I’ve never seen it and she always wanted to. We missed out on the stage version, so the movie it is. Next year we’ll watch The Addams Family musical which I thought was this year already. Oh well.
In terms of costumes, I’ve had two finds this week, although one is older and I just forgot to submit it. Have you seen photos from Vogue World? This year’s theme was Hollywood and they had a lot of original costumes on their runway. Now the question is, should be document all of them as reuses or maybe only add them to those costumes we already have sightings off?
I wish we had Carneval here! It sounds so cool!
Rocky Horror is a lot of fun – there is lots of audience participation. It’s very silly, but it’s fun.
Would love to see the costumes you found! Feel free to submit either way you think is best and I’ll adjust if need be.
I saw the Vogue event yesterday and couldn’t wait to talk about it here. Orlando, Moulin Rouge, Black Panther, Dune… The idea of mixing costumes and fashion was great. I haven’t watch the full video but here it is for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd9wKJIF7W4
And an article about it which quite details the clothes: https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/what-is-vogue-world-2025-hollywood
I have the same question than you though. Does it fully count as a reuse? I’m not 100% sure. I mean, it’s quite close to a costume exhibit in a way. We mention them if there’s another reuse, but we wouldn’t make a submission just for it. And yet, it’s so interesting… Could there be a way to do something about the event itself?
I think it should definitely be documented because it is a bit more than a usual costume exhibit, isn’t it? It’s a very public event and they are actually worn by people and not just put on manequins. For me, it falls in a similar category as e.g. the dress that was worn on Dynasty and then also the red carpet later on. Maybe a blog post would be the best way. However it also seems like a lot of work for Katie alone. If a blog post is the way to go, is there anyway to help with that?
And if I remember correctly, there was at least one costume it could also be added to and that is the Dangerous Liasion/Hocus Pocus one. I saw perioddramastyle post it yesterday in their story but I don’t know if they submitted it already. It was worn by Synnøve Årda in the show.
I agree I think it’s a costume documentation. Some of our stuff isn’t strictly movie reuses, so I play fast and loose with how it works. I think I need to try to get the hocus pocus one up on social this week…in the next couple of days, really, as that costume always does REALLY well around Halloween. Thanks for the heads up!
This reminds me that I wanted to actually remind you that the first part of The Witcher‘s fourth season (and the first one with Liam Hemsworth instead of Henry Cavill) comes out tomorrow and that it might be good for socials too since there are some documented reuses already. There are so many releases right now. It’s really hard to keep up. If I’m not wrong, next Monday the Robin Hood series also comes out.
Yes, there is so much just now! Another Amadeus and another Dangerous Liaisons soon as well.
I thought about a blog post, to present the event itself and all, but like you I didn’t want to add this for Katie. It could be great to figure out a way to help on that sort of “bigger” projects, a shared doc or something. I really don’t know anything about that sort of things sorry.
Thank you for these links! I will definitely document them – if they’re reused somewhere, I think it counts. It’s not necessarily in a movie, but we’ve got a few things that veer off from that documnted here.
Okay! How should we divide the work?
If you all just want to submit the costumes in the fashion show as individual pages I will get them up slowly, one by one. I just got the one from Dangerous Liaisons up because of Halloween – and because that dress does really well whenever I post it to social media, haha! But there are some cool costumes from Orlando that I am excited about! The one from Marie Antoinette….I am not sure about….they say it’s the one from the movie, but it just doesn’t look like it to me?
I searched and indeed it is not from the movie, but a recreation made specifically for the event: https://www.vogue.com/article/julia-garner-marie-antoinette-vogue-world-2025
I am a bit confused because at first they say “a faithful recreation” and then imply they added stuff? I’d need to recheck the costume from Marie-Antoinette but anyway, we now know for sure it is not from the movie (despite what vogue own articles said elsewhere….)
Julia Garner (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQS6kHLidvd/) sure knew how to play and have fun with it and I’m really impressed by her ability to hop and canter around in those shoes. But the creative bits in this actually pretty faithful recreation … rather hurt the design imo – all while it just seems to be a question of positioning the decorative pleats densly or more fluffily on the bodice and putting a brooch on top of it. The film/PR showed the design with and without the attachable sleeves. Other than that I cannot make out any differences?
BTW, here (https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fthree-milena-canonaro-costumes-from-sophia-coppolas-marie-v0-sbyavpxm7crf1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dc9cab8833eb3e1e47f25591aeb9fdc8057166467) are photos from the current and quite sensational looking Marie Antoinette Style (https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/marie-antoinette) exhibition at the V&A in London that show the dress from the movie – or a double as the pleats on the bodice – again – look different and the ribbons that attach sleeves to bodice are especially punched in circular shapes that I couldn’t make out on either Garner’s recreation or the gown Dunst wears in movie/BTS stills.
PS: I can’t seem to work links/webpics into the text via button, so, sorry for the unseemly urls (might be issues with my senile browser).
Thank you! This is super helpful!