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Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Wunmi Mosaku's Annie movie costume from Sinners on display...

In 2025's supernatural horror, Sinners, Michael B. Jordan earned himself an Oscar for playing the dual roles of identical twin brothers, 'Smoke' and 'Stack Moore', who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South. After working for the Chicago mob, they come back and open a juke joint for the local Black community in the 1932 Mississippi Delta, but one night vampires come a-calling. In Director Ryan Coogler's film, Wunmi Mosaku plays 'Annie', Smoke's estranged wife and a Hoodoo practitioner who uses her knowledge of herbs to physically and spiritually protect her community.
Annie movie costume worn by Wunmi Mosaku
in Sinners
Wunmi Mosaku Sinners Annie movie costume
Sinners Annie movie costume
Sinners Annie film costume
Wunmi Mosaku Sinners Annie film costume
This screen-worn costume was photographed on display at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 4, 2026 (although, jewelry, belt and shoes shown here are non-original).

Ruth E. Carter is Costumer Designer on Ryan Coogler's horror and the legendary artist was nominated for an Academy Award for her designs.

Interestingly whilst main cast members received custom looks for their characters, background extras and large ensemble cast crowds wore repurposed 1920s and 1930s period garments gathered for Marvel Studio's planned, but aborted, Blade movie reboot.

Co-chairs and CEOs of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, really helped champion films like Sinners and Weapons, helping to bring new, original stories to the big screen. With their departure after the Paramount-Skydance merger, and now with James Gunn and Peter Safran out at DC Studios, you have to wonder if we'll get a lot less original films and shows, and more unoriginal content designed to appeal to mass audiences.

Anyway, be sure to check out more of Ruth E. Carter's costume designs on display, from films like Black Panther, Wakanda Forever, Coming 2 America, Dolemite Is My Name and Selma, to name a few.

Sinners movie poster
Sinners Annie movie poster

Thursday, November 5, 2026

Tilda Swinton's Madame Blanc movie costume from Suspiria on display...

To celebrate Tilda Swinton's birthday I thought I'd share her screen-worn costume from 2018's supernatural horror, Suspiria. Luca Guadagnino's film is inspired by the 1977 Italian film of the same name and sees an American dancer (Dakota Johnson) enroll in a prestigious dance academy in Berlin run by a coven of witches. Tilda Swinton's 'Madame Blanc' is the lead choreographer and a high-ranking leader of the supernatural clandestine coven.
Madame Blanc movie costume worn by Tilda Swinton
in Suspiria
Tilda Swinton Suspiria Madame Blanc movie costume
Suspiria Madame Blanc film costume
Madame Blanc Suspiria movie costume
Tilda Swinton Suspiria Madame Blanc film costume
This free-flowing movie costume was photographed on display at The Horror Show exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on October 4, 2026.

Giulia Piersanti is Costume Designer on Director Luca Guadagnino's psychological horror film.

Madame Blanc's glamorous look resembles religious vestments and identifies her as one of the leading figures in the coven's ancient hierarchy.


Suspiria movie poster
Suspiria movie poster

Monday, November 2, 2026

Anthony Hopkin's Hannibal Lecter movie costume from The Silence of the Lambs on display...

Halloween may be over for this year, but the frights keep coming with this screen-worn costume from 1991's The Silence of the Lambs. Director Jonathan Demme adapts Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name for the big screen and the psychological horror thriller sees Jodie Foster star as a young FBI trainee named 'Clarice Starling' who is hunting the 'Buffalo Bill' serial killer. In order to catch the killer, who likes to skin his female victims, Starling seeks the advice of Anthony Hopkins 'Dr. Hannibal Lecter', a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer himself, who is imprisoned at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. The film garnered seven Academy Award nominations and scored five Oscar wins, including for Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor and Actress in a Leading Role. 
Hannibal Lecter movie costume worn by Anthony Hopkins
in The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins The Silence of the Lambs Hannibal Lecter film costume
Silence of the Lambs Hannibal Lecter costume mask
Silence of the Lambs Hannibal Lecter movie costume
Hannibal Lecter film costume Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins The Silence of the Lambs Hannibal Lecter movie costume
This screen-used asylum straightjacket costume on a hand truck with augmented restraints and custom muzzle from the movie was photographed on display at The Horror Show exhibition currently at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 4, 2026.

Legendary Costume Designer Colleen Atwood was responsible for helping to craft Hannibal Lecter's iconic look.

Hockey mask designer Ed Cubberly created Lecter's infamous mask, a fiberglass piece left uncoated to evoke dried, taut skin.

Anthony Hopkins fans can also enjoy a closer look at his Odin movie costume from Thor: The Dark World, his Hitchcock movie costume and his film costume from The Wolfman on display.

The Silence of the Lambs movie poster
The Silence of the Lambs movie poster