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On Lego Batman's home clothes and what animated characters reveal about fashion as identity — the purest expression of costume as self.
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On fashion in cinema — not costume design as craft, but the specific things that happen when clothes become the whole argument of a film. What a director is saying when they dress a character in a particular house, a particular era, a particular piece.
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On costume as psychological armour, and what fashion criticism refuses to say about the clothes that become a person.
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The mask stays on: animated characters and fashion as identity
Identity · AnimationMargot Tenenbaum never takes her coat off
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