Sabina Stent

It may sound bizarre to some of you, but whenever I visit an exhibition celebrating movie costumes, I always expect to see something by Edna Mode. Yes, I understand that she is a figment of Brad Bird’s imagination, I know she has been rendered on a computer, and I realize that we have only seen a very tiny portion of her work, but to me, she is so real. Indulge me for a moment, but I think her services to superheroes and couture need to be celebrated and respected—just IMAGINE wandering into ...

Wonder Woman has burst back onto the silver screen in the last few years, but it’s crucial to rediscover how she first came to be. Chronicling a loving relationship between three brilliant open minds, Professor Marston and The Wonder Women honours William, Elizabeth, and Olive. Sabina Stent looks back on the mutual desire that birthed an icon.
In 1943, the psychologist and inventor William Moulton Marston, creator of an early prototype of the lie detector test, wrote in The American Scholar: ...

Natalie Shirinian’s new documentary Interior Motives explores the increasingly intimate relationship between fashion and interior design
“I wanted to offer a portal view into this otherwise very exclusive world through my point of view,” says Natalie Shirinian, director of Interior Motives, a new documentary exploring how fashion and interior design intersect. “Almost like the viewer is Alice falling into Wonderland.”
Interior Motives is the first film to explore the relationship between betw...

The connections between Peter and Tony run deeper than posters on every wall...

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck tells AnOther about his new film, a fictional tale loosely based on Gerhard Richter’s life in Nazi Germany
“I believe in fiction. I believe that a fictionalisation that is rooted in truth can bring something closer to truthfulness than a mere listing of facts.”
As a child, German film director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck accompanied his mother to the Zeitgeist exhibition at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau museum, which housed work by an array of artists inclu...

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MAI: The first time I saw your work it brought to mind both Dora Maar’s 29 Rue Astorg and Francesca Woodman’s Rhode Island series. How do these comparisons make you feel?
Ellen Rogers: I remembered you saying this! I was touched by that thought as we strolled down the straight towards Euston station–somehow the thought of that is infused with that road now–imagining them sitting in the Welcome Collection as a result.
I think there is a chance some people are born ...

How Captain America: The Winter Soldier predicated Avengers: Endgame.

From the sullen 12-year-old redhead girl in the North, dressed in girlish colours and fabrics, to the darker-haired young woman who’s been around the block and is now clad in grown-up furs, Sansa Stark has undergone one of the most significant sartorial evolutions on Game of Thrones. Not only have her clothes changed as she’s changed locations, tried to fit in with the locals and according to the company she keeps, but they’ve also switched up in reflection of her psyche.
Sansa’s clothes have...

SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains some spoilers for the books. Proceed at your own risk.
Ever since Game of Thrones first hit our television screens in 2012, speculation has been rife on how the series will end. Now, even with Season 8 due to kick off on April 14, the fan theories just keep coming.
Over the past seven seasons of George R. R. Martin’s epic saga, we have seen deceptions and lies, twists and turns, births, deaths, and White Walkers. With all to play for over the sh...

The Crow: Flesh & Blood is the first and only time the revenge epic focused on a heroine.

As Adrian’s designs go on show in Paris alongside those of the great Azzedine Alaïa, a look at the Surrealist legacy that prefaced much of the American costume designer’s work
Until June 23, the Fondation Azzedine Alaïa will stage Adrian and Alaïa: The Art of Tailoring. Both men had much in common – including a professional connection to Greta Garbo – Alaïa, mesmerised by Adrian since childhood, would eventually collect over 150 pieces of Adrian’s work during his lifetime. The exhibition, the...

Although Stan became the ‘face’ of modern Marvel because of his film cameos, the Marvel universe — cinematic or otherwise — would have been a very different place if it wasn’t for one key influence: his wife, Joan Lee/.

Many excited fans are speculating that Pepper Potts would finally appear as Rescue, her superhero alter ego, in the next film, However, .Pepper Potts has always been something of a superhero, even without the suit, and her evolution into Rescue has been steadily taking place all along, right before our eyes.

A closer look at the evolution of the Princess of Power, from ’80s TV series to the DC comics of recent years and now, a new incarnation on Netflix.