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Movies can be fashion. You only have to watch Annie Hall or The Great Gatsby or Chinatown or Breathless to see the link between film costumes and real-world chic. It's a two-way street: Designers find inspiration in My Fair Lady or Memoirs of a Geisha, and next thing you know Victorian high-necked blouses and silk kimono-wrap coats are in all the stores. And costumers, it goes without saying, obviously take inspiration from the runways for less literal, more au courant movieland takes on, say, June Carter Cash's 1960s Grand Ole Opry-wear.

I was glad to see costume dramas getting a lot of big nods at the Golden Globes (my favorite fashion-meets-film moment of ...

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