Jin Kyungok, who guided the readers through the world of fashion in film with her book, Designing Film with Fashion has published her new book, Styling Film With Fashion. She took up on the French film director, Nicol Bedre, who stated, “Costume in film is not about what looks good on the actors but must contribute to creating the image of the characters and producing the overall effect of the film” and adds that when one knows more about the fashion in film, it becomes much more enjoyable. 

Film costume exists for the purpose of the special role that the actors undertake and therefore it is possible for the audience to figure out the development of the story just by looking at the different costumes worn by the actors. In the presentation of ten different themes using thirty-seven films, the author shows how the film narrative develops and the emotional changes of the characters by means of how they are dressed. As diverse as film genres are and the periods and stories that they tell, the film fashion covered in this book is also wide-ranging and spectacular. 

Readers will find the stories of fashion fascinating in all the following kinds of films: the Chinese dress of the forties, the high fashion of the seventies, the hip hop style of the present, sundry fashion and accessories, vintage and high-end fashion accompanied with jewelries from the fashion blockbuster film, Sex and the City 2, the pop art fashion in Zoolander Returns, the film with a backdrop of architectural fashion, and the specially produced LED fashion in the SF films. For these fashion styles lead to trends for the public in the contemporary times. The fashion tendency of the people puts stock in diversity and individuality, while the basis of the new originality is derived from the former eras of fashion.