This is an occasional series highlighting historical movie and TV costumes that best represent the decade...
Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle
There’s a reason you’ve never heard of the French film Chouans! (1988), people, and...
Costume designer Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle is one of France’s most celebrated, winning the...
I’ve already whined about my endless list of movies I plan to watch —...
Go ahead and hate me, but I’m spending the month in Paris. The downside...
Many lavishly produced historical costume movies are about larger-than-life figures, whether real or fictional,...
Set at the French court in the 1670s, and chronicles various intrigues surrounding the...
An adaptation of a Proust novel, with Jeremy Irons as Monsieur Swann who is...