Speaking at Hay festival about his latest film The Happy Prince, the star also explained how being openly gay got him typecast
He has lived the wild life in Hollywood and New York, partied with Madonna, hung out with Andy Warhol, and sniffed poppers with Hardy Amies but Rupert Everett’s next chapter promises to be more sedate: he’s moving in with his mum.
“It’s done, I’m there,” the actor told Hay literary festival in Wales. “It’s very peculiar, I’m not sure if it’s a wonderful thing, or a tragic thing yet.
He has lived the wild life in Hollywood and New York, partied with Madonna, hung out with Andy Warhol, and sniffed poppers with Hardy Amies but Rupert Everett’s next chapter promises to be more sedate: he’s moving in with his mum.
“It’s done, I’m there,” the actor told Hay literary festival in Wales. “It’s very peculiar, I’m not sure if it’s a wonderful thing, or a tragic thing yet.
- 5/27/2018
- by Mark Brown Arts correspondent
- The Guardian - Film News
Set in the glamour of 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.
With his latest film, Paul Thomas Anderson paints an illuminating portrait both of an artist on a creative journey and the women who keep his world running. Phantom Thread is Paul Thomas Anderson’s eighth movie, and his second collaboration with Daniel Day-Lewis. (review)
From Focus Features, Phantom Thread is playing in theaters nationwide.
With his latest film, Paul Thomas Anderson paints an illuminating portrait both of an artist on a creative journey and the women who keep his world running. Phantom Thread is Paul Thomas Anderson’s eighth movie, and his second collaboration with Daniel Day-Lewis. (review)
From Focus Features, Phantom Thread is playing in theaters nationwide.
- 1/20/2018
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
For costume designer Mark Bridges, it’s always an adventure working with Paul Thomas Anderson. But “Phantom Thread,” their eighth collaboration, represented a meta challenge: It was a movie about his craft.
But Bridges admits that there’s a big difference between fashion and costume design. “I’m there to facilitate an actor’s performance and fulfill the vision of a director,” he said.
And in the case of “Phantom Thread,” about the world of London haute couture in the 1950s, it’s a movie about the fashion designer as auteur. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the eccentric and obsessive Reynolds Woodcock, whose world is turned upside down when he falls for Eastern European waitress Alma (Vicky Krieps). But imagine if “Rebecca’s” Joan Fontaine struck back at Laurence Olivier with sly subversion, exorcising his demons while bringing them closer together. That’s what Anderson did with his twisted and witty love story.
But Bridges admits that there’s a big difference between fashion and costume design. “I’m there to facilitate an actor’s performance and fulfill the vision of a director,” he said.
And in the case of “Phantom Thread,” about the world of London haute couture in the 1950s, it’s a movie about the fashion designer as auteur. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the eccentric and obsessive Reynolds Woodcock, whose world is turned upside down when he falls for Eastern European waitress Alma (Vicky Krieps). But imagine if “Rebecca’s” Joan Fontaine struck back at Laurence Olivier with sly subversion, exorcising his demons while bringing them closer together. That’s what Anderson did with his twisted and witty love story.
- 12/22/2017
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Daniel Day-Lewis already has five Oscar nominations for Best Actor under his belt, and he seems destined to land a sixth for his work in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread.” The actor stars as Reynolds Woodcock, a renowned London fashion designer in the 1950s, and the role has become highly publicized since it marks Day-Lewis’ final performance before retiring from the screen. Fortunately, it appears Day-Lewis is going out on a glorious high note.
Read More:‘Phantom Thread’ First Reactions Prove Paul Thomas Anderson Has Made One of the Best Films of 2017
In his A review of the drama, IndieWire’s Eric Kohn raves, “Anderson has crafted a memorable finale for his ‘There Will Be Blood’ collaborator in British dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock,” noting just how successfully Day-Lewis “rises to the challenge” of digging into his character’s “emotional immaturity.” Kohn is hardly alone in his praise for Day-Lewis.
Read More:‘Phantom Thread’ First Reactions Prove Paul Thomas Anderson Has Made One of the Best Films of 2017
In his A review of the drama, IndieWire’s Eric Kohn raves, “Anderson has crafted a memorable finale for his ‘There Will Be Blood’ collaborator in British dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock,” noting just how successfully Day-Lewis “rises to the challenge” of digging into his character’s “emotional immaturity.” Kohn is hardly alone in his praise for Day-Lewis.
- 12/7/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” is slowly rolling out to press and guild members ahead of its Christmas release. Following the drama’s first screening in Los Angeles on November 24, “Phantom Thread” arrived in New York City on Sunday, November 26, complete with a rare appearance from star Daniel Day-Lewis. The three-time Oscar winner joined Anderson and co-stars Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville to discuss his new movie, which his representative says marks his final film performance before retirement.
Read More:First ‘Phantom Thread’ Screening: Paul Thomas Anderson Had More Fittings Than Shooting Days, Lesley Manville Says
To the surprise of no one, Day-Lewis revealed he extensively researched numerous fashion designers to get into the character of Reynolds Woodcock, a renowned dressmaker who designs gowns for high society women. Original rumors suggested Woodcock was based on designer Charles James, though the actor refuted the notion. “As fascinating as his life was,...
Read More:First ‘Phantom Thread’ Screening: Paul Thomas Anderson Had More Fittings Than Shooting Days, Lesley Manville Says
To the surprise of no one, Day-Lewis revealed he extensively researched numerous fashion designers to get into the character of Reynolds Woodcock, a renowned dressmaker who designs gowns for high society women. Original rumors suggested Woodcock was based on designer Charles James, though the actor refuted the notion. “As fascinating as his life was,...
- 11/27/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
When Queen Elizabeth attended Ladies Day at the annual Royal Ascot races in June, all eyes were on her gold-and-blue hat - which, by coincidence, perfectly matched the colors worn by winning jockey Ryan Moore. "It was absolutely extraordinary," says Caroline de Guitaut, curator of Fashioning a Reign: 90 Years of Style from the Queen's Wardrobe. The hat, created by her dresser and frequent designer Angela Kelly, is center stage in the third and final portion of the exhibit, opening at Windsor Castle on Saturday. The Queen's iconic clothes and hats are also on display at Buckingham Palace and Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh,...
- 9/16/2016
- by Simon Perry, @SPerryPeoplemag
- PEOPLE.com
Loyal to the talent in her country, Queen Elizabeth has only publicly worn British designers throughout her record-breaking reign. That is just one of many secrets unearthed as the Queen, 90, throws open her incredible closet in a ground-breaking exhibit at Buckingham Palace that opened on July 23. "She has been steadfast in her support of British design. That is quite something over such a period of time," curator of Fashioning a Reign, Caroline de Guitaut, tells People. "Her unswerving support of British design is very much a theme of the exhibition and giving visitors an understanding of what it takes to make couture clothing.
- 7/25/2016
- by Simon Perry, @SPerryPeoplemag
- PEOPLE.com
Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret each changed fashion in her own way - and now a new exhibition is exploring their influence. • Want to keep up with the latest royals coverage? Click here to subscribe to the Royals Newsletter.The curators of Fashion Rules: Restyled at Diana's former London home, Kensington Palace, offer an inside look at some of the world's most iconic royal styles in a new video. Featuring a close look at everything from the spectacular detailing on one of the Queen's dresses to the full grandeur of Diana's gowns, the video opens the door to the exhibit,...
- 2/16/2016
- by Simon Perry, @SPerryPeoplemag
- PEOPLE.com
Royal couture fans are in for a treat! The largest collection of Queen Elizabeth's royal frocks are set to go on display as she celebrates her landmark 90th birthday. Marking her reign with linked exhibitions across three different royal venues, the Royal Collection is rolling out more than 150 dresses for viewing. Fashioning a Reign: 90 Years of Style From The Queen's Wardrobe kicks off at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh - her Scottish royal residence - on the Queen's 90th birthday on April 21 and runs until October 26. It will highlight the use of tartan in royal dress. • Want to keep...
- 2/5/2016
- by Simon Perry, @SPerryPeoplemag
- PEOPLE.com
When it comes to royal dress code, Princess Diana was the queen of glamour. The late princess debuted many iconic looks through the years (who could forget that head-turning red Christian Lacroix dress?), and now some of her most famous looks will go on display next month in a new fashion exhibit at her former home, Kensington Palace. Fashion Rules: Restyled, which highlights royal fashion through the decades, also features memorable pieces from the collections of Queen Elizabeth and the late Princess Margaret. • Want to keep up with the latest royals coverage? Click here to subscribe to the Royals Newsletter.
- 1/14/2016
- by Simon Perry, @SPerryPeoplemag
- PEOPLE.com
For a big budget movie about a lone astronaut who gets stranded on Mars, the spacesuits in The Martian are surprisingly sober in terms of design. There is an attempt here to make everything seem as plausible as possible, costume design especially. Director Ridley Scott’s regular costumer Janty Yates has created possibly the sexiest spacesuits ever seen on screen, and what’s more they are functional. To paraphrase a line in the film, she had to “science the shit out of them”.
Yates collaborated with Nasa looking specifically at their Z1 and Z2 prototypes to create an Eva (‘Extravehicular Activity’ – any time the crew must go outside) suit and surface or ‘bio’ suit (worn on Mars). The surface suit is similar to the blue under-suits she created for Scott’s near future set Prometheus in 2012, although further grounded in reality. The Prometheus under-suits could, in theory, monitor functioning levels of the human body,...
Yates collaborated with Nasa looking specifically at their Z1 and Z2 prototypes to create an Eva (‘Extravehicular Activity’ – any time the crew must go outside) suit and surface or ‘bio’ suit (worn on Mars). The surface suit is similar to the blue under-suits she created for Scott’s near future set Prometheus in 2012, although further grounded in reality. The Prometheus under-suits could, in theory, monitor functioning levels of the human body,...
- 10/6/2015
- by Lord Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Director Brian Helgeland’s Legend (2015) tells the based-on true story of Ronald and Reggie Kray: twins (both played by Tom Hardy), East End boys, racketeers, murderers, icons. The Krays were shaped during the 1960s, a post World War II boom for England. They came to symbolise the smartly dressed gangster for a new youth-orientated generation. They had money and they wanted to flaunt it – and that meant suits and a lot of jewellery.
Costume designer for Legend, Caroline Harris, boasting over 20 years experience in both film and television with credits such as Mr Nice (2010), Red Riding (2009) and Fleming (2014), here chats exclusively to Clothes on Film about her work on the project:
Legend is not set during the ‘swinging sixties’; there is still an air of long-established formality present, especially in nightclubs in casinos.
How did you approach your overall representation of the 1960s?
The 1960s was an entire decade and fashion changed and developed throughout.
Costume designer for Legend, Caroline Harris, boasting over 20 years experience in both film and television with credits such as Mr Nice (2010), Red Riding (2009) and Fleming (2014), here chats exclusively to Clothes on Film about her work on the project:
Legend is not set during the ‘swinging sixties’; there is still an air of long-established formality present, especially in nightclubs in casinos.
How did you approach your overall representation of the 1960s?
The 1960s was an entire decade and fashion changed and developed throughout.
- 9/25/2015
- by Lord Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
New Delhi, March 11: Hardy Amies, a British fashion house specializing in men's luxury wear, is set to debut in India through an exclusive partnership with The Collective, a Madura Fashion and Lifestyle retail chain.
Originally located at London's Savile Row, the brand will now introduce the season's collection for men through its made-to-measure experience for its patrons in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, a statement said.
With Hardy Amies, the retail chain aims to present the made-to-measure concept to the Indian customers, who may join distinguished patrons such as Lord Nelson, Napoleon III, Winston Churchill, Prince.
Originally located at London's Savile Row, the brand will now introduce the season's collection for men through its made-to-measure experience for its patrons in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, a statement said.
With Hardy Amies, the retail chain aims to present the made-to-measure concept to the Indian customers, who may join distinguished patrons such as Lord Nelson, Napoleon III, Winston Churchill, Prince.
- 3/11/2014
- by Arun Pandit
- RealBollywood.com
Obsessed with royal fashion? On July 4, an exhibition will open, showcasing some of the most iconic dresses of the last century. The "Fashion Rules" exhibit presented by Kensington Palace includes gowns and outfits made famous by Queen Elizabeth II, the late Princess Margaret and Princess Diana - one of whose gowns is on loan from People. The princess's blue Jacques Azagury dress was bought for $26,450 at the Christie's of New York auction Diana held shortly before her tragic death in 1997.With its "big shoulders, spangles and over-sized bow," as show curator Cassie Davies-Strodder described it, the dress is very much a of the '80s.
- 6/28/2013
- by Simon Perry
- PEOPLE.com
With our first proper glimpse of the ‘life suit’ worn by Jaden and Will Smith in the latest trailer for After Earth released last week, we have put together a brief round up of sci-fi related suit posts at Clothes on Film. For specificity, we are saving the sharp lounge suits of Inception and the like for another time; these are space suits or similar – the kind of costume actors have to be zipped into.
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After Earth’s life suit as designed by Amy Westcott. We are not really sure what it does yet (gives you wings?), but Ms. Westcott provides a few hints to be going on with. The film is out 13th June.
Video: Mid-1960s fashion and costume collide with Hardy Amies’ very Courrèges like designs for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Costume designer Janty Yates...
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After Earth’s life suit as designed by Amy Westcott. We are not really sure what it does yet (gives you wings?), but Ms. Westcott provides a few hints to be going on with. The film is out 13th June.
Video: Mid-1960s fashion and costume collide with Hardy Amies’ very Courrèges like designs for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Costume designer Janty Yates...
- 3/16/2013
- by Chris Laverty
- Clothes on Film
This quite brilliant video is available exclusively on the Hardy Amies website. It discusses the famous designer’s (he was once Royal outfitter to Queen Elizabeth II) involvement creating costumes for Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
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We could go into details, though frankly you would be better off just watching the video for yourself. It is around 16 minutes long and worth every second. Look out for some very interesting titbits concerning the famous Pan-Am ‘grip shoes’, where Amies gathered inspiration and how scary but talented milliner Freddie Fox (also The Queen’s outfitter) created those wonderful egg-shaped helmets.
Incidentally, an exhibition of Hardy Amies’ work for 2001: A Space Odyssey is on display from now until 20th June at Los Angeles County Museum of Art featuring sketches and actual costumes from the film. Amazing.
You can watch 2001: A Space Odyssey at LOVEFiLM.
See The Video Here
We could go into details, though frankly you would be better off just watching the video for yourself. It is around 16 minutes long and worth every second. Look out for some very interesting titbits concerning the famous Pan-Am ‘grip shoes’, where Amies gathered inspiration and how scary but talented milliner Freddie Fox (also The Queen’s outfitter) created those wonderful egg-shaped helmets.
Incidentally, an exhibition of Hardy Amies’ work for 2001: A Space Odyssey is on display from now until 20th June at Los Angeles County Museum of Art featuring sketches and actual costumes from the film. Amazing.
You can watch 2001: A Space Odyssey at LOVEFiLM.
- 12/21/2012
- by Chris Laverty
- Clothes on Film
A new exhibition is to show how Queen Elizabeth transformed British fashion. The 'Hartnell to Amies: Couture by Royal Appointment' show will showcase designs by royal couturiers Norman Hartnell and Hardy Amies and the effect the monarch's outfits at historic events has shaped the style landscape. Over 150 garments, including ballgowns, cocktail dresses and ready-to-wear designs worn by British high society - often taking its lead from the monarch - will go on display in the exhibition at London's Fashion and Textile Museum. Hartnell - who opened his first haute couture boutique in Mayfair, London, in 1923 - attracted many fans after his creations became popular with Elizabeth, the late Queen Mother and her daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. He...
- 10/29/2012
- Monsters and Critics
How Ryan Gosling, George Clooney and Philip Seymour Hoffman mastered the art of the understated suit
My browser history was cleared of all traces of "F*ck Yeah! Ryan Gosling". Various synonyms for 'silver fox' were banished from all talk of George Clooney. The curious soft spot I hold for Philip Seymour Hoffman was set aside. I was prepared to objectively analyse The Ides of March - a film full of, to quote Derek Zoolander, "really, really, ridiculously good looking" people.
But no sooner had the three men sashayed onto screen than my jaw fell agape and my eyes glazed over dreamily. Why? It was the suits.
The Savile Row tailor Hardy Amies once said that, "A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, then forgotten all about them." It's a maxim that epitomises great heritage labels like Brooks Brothers,...
My browser history was cleared of all traces of "F*ck Yeah! Ryan Gosling". Various synonyms for 'silver fox' were banished from all talk of George Clooney. The curious soft spot I hold for Philip Seymour Hoffman was set aside. I was prepared to objectively analyse The Ides of March - a film full of, to quote Derek Zoolander, "really, really, ridiculously good looking" people.
But no sooner had the three men sashayed onto screen than my jaw fell agape and my eyes glazed over dreamily. Why? It was the suits.
The Savile Row tailor Hardy Amies once said that, "A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, then forgotten all about them." It's a maxim that epitomises great heritage labels like Brooks Brothers,...
- 10/28/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Royals at the Hardy Amies salon. Photograph by Michael Roberts. Yesterday was men’s-only day at the London collections, starting with a show of tailoring at the venerable Hardy Amies salon in Savile Row, with breakfast served on the first floor. “I’m sorry, this is reserved for the royal party,” said a flunky, waving fashionable interlopers away from a seated area surrounding a glass-topped coffee table. Enter Princess Michael of Kent and family. So there it was. The penultimate show of London Fashion Week and the only one attended by a princess, a duke, a lord, and a gaggle of snippy queens.
- 2/25/2010
- Vanity Fair
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