Like no other article of clothing, the hat is an embodiment of its wearer. It has functioned historically as a social signifier, revealing characteristics as diverse as class, occupation, and personal style.

Streaming TV costume designers who are creating worlds, viral fashion trends and influencing runway collections are hoping it will finally mean more recognition.
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Fantasy and fetish formed on a foot, the shoe has never been more important. “Sex and the City” ushered in a renaissance of Manolos, Louboutins, and Jimmy Choos to Middle America…

As movies and television follow the stories of content creators, their wardrobes help create a riveting fantasy — while simultaneously sending a message.
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Beads and embellishments were perhaps mankind’s first indulgent luxury…

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Dorothy Gaspar is hell-bent on reviving gloves as a mainstream accessory. “This is my passion—to get gloves ‘back.’..

Costumes are usually contained by their frames. Hundreds of hours are poured into their conception and creation, yet they exist in the fleeting moment to describe a person at the specific time of action in a television show or film.

New York Times:
There’s another Oscar-related clothes issue currently getting Hollywood all worked up: the fight for equal pay being waged by the members of the Costume Designers Guild. Costume designers, who are 83 percent female, are paid 30 percent less than production designers (their organizational-chart peers), who are 80 percent male, according to research from the U.S.C. Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and the Annenberg Foundation.