The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

I’ve been having a rough couple of days,  and the last thing I wanted to do was sit down to watch a frock flick that was going to depress me (because face it, so many frock flicks are depressing). I needed something light and fun, filled with attractive humans in good costumes. Enter The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), Guy Ritchie’s gorgeous homage to the 1960s Cold War era TV spy show. Starring Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, and Hugh Grant, it was exactly what the doctor ordered as far as eye candy goes.

Joanna Johnston (whose credits include some real bangers, such as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Back to the Future III, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and Lincoln) was credited as costume designer, and let me just say, this film was like watching a 1960s Vogue magazine come to life. If you’re any kind of afficionado of mid-1960s haute couture, this film delivers in spades.

“I looked at a little bit of [contemporary fashion], but I didn’t want to be driven by runway. I wanted to go the other way around, so I started in the loose sixties, and then used my interpretation to see what would fall in well today, in contemporary fashion . . . I have a sort of consciousness, but I didn’t study it too heavily.”

— Joana Johnston, Inside Costume Designer Joanna Johnston’s Mod World for The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

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