June 2008
June 13th, 2008
The Dark Knight UK Premiere
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June 12th, 2008
The Dark Knight UK Premiere
The UK premiere of The Dark Knight will take place in London, Leicester Square on July 21, 2008.
June 11th, 2008
Fashion's Dark Knight
Giorgio Armani wardrobes Christian Bale exclusively for role as Bruce Wayne
(NEW YORK) Giorgio Armani has added another to notch to a stellar lineup of film collaborations. He will wardrobe Christian Bale for his role as Bruce Wayne in director Christopher Nolan's highly-anticipated action drama, The Dark Knight.
The Warner Brothers movie, which premieres in New York on July 15, also stars Heath Ledger in his final role before his untimely death.
For the production, Armani partnered with acclaimed costume designer Lindy Hemming, who won an Academy Award for her costume designs for Topsy-Turvy. "As a Giorgio Armani Hand Made-to-Measure client, Bruce Wayne is demonstrating his status as a discriminating and sophisticated connoisseur of fine fashion, while also showing he has individual taste," said Armani. "It is also fitting that I should be dressing a superhero this year, as I am pleased to have chaired the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition, Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, last May."
As Batman's alter ego Bruce Wayne, Bale wears Giorgio Armani Hand Made-to-Measure throughout the film. A still from the movie featuring Wayne in a suit from this collection is the visual for a world-wide Armani advertising campaign coinciding with the release. Wayne's wardrobe includes single-breasted, three-button suits, single-breasted tuxedos and black wool coats, each featuring the traditional customized owner's label--in this case, Giorgio Armani for Bruce Wayne.
Said Hemming, "For the character Bruce Wayne, Chris Nolan and I wanted an expensively elegant tailored look to contrast with his Batman persona. We felt that the Giorgio Armani brand was emblematic of the contemporary classic look that I hoped to create. I think Christian looks edgy and cool, and I feel that their tailoring beautifully realized our vision."
Source: Fashionweek Daily Dispatch by Jim Shi
Armani's Bale Out
When you see Christian Bale onscreen this summer in very anticipated The Dark Knight, he’ll be outfitted head-to-toe in Giorgio Armani.
The Italian designer and industry-acclaimed costume designer Lindy Hemming came together to have Giorgio Armani Hand Made-To-Measure suits appear on Bale’s Bruce Wayne throughout the film. Says the perpetually-tanned Armani to FWD, “As a Giorgio Armani Hand Made-to-Measure client, Bruce Wayne is demonstrating his status as a discriminating and sophisticated connoisseur of fine fashion, while also showing he has individual taste,” said Armani. “It is also fitting that I should be dressing a superhero this year, as I am pleased to have chaired the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition, Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, last May.”
A brand ad campaign featuring Bale in one of the suits will launch at the same time as The Dark Knight promotions. The Giorgio Armani for Bruce Wayne collection includes black wool coats, single-breasted suits, three-button suits and tuxedos.
Hemming adds, “For the character Bruce Wayne, Chris Nolan and I wanted an expensively elegant tailored look to contrast with his Batman persona. We felt that the Giorgio Armani brand was emblematic of the contemporary classic look that I hoped to create. I think Christian looks edgy and cool, and I feel that their tailoring beautifully realized our vision.”
Now we have three good reasons to see this flick: The late Heath Ledger as the Joker, Christian Bale in tight superhero outfits and bespoke Giorgio Armani.
Source: Hollywoodlife.net
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June 10th, 2008
Suited and saluted
Source: Daily Echo
BOURNEMOUTH'S Batman Christian Bale, England manager Fabio Capello and Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman have been named three of the most stylish men of 2008.
Marks and Spencer boss Stuart Rose, US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama and Prince Michael of Kent are also in the top 10 published by lifestyle magazine Esquire.
Others include a Sotheby's auctioneer, an Italian industrialist, a Chicago rapper and an environmentalist.
Esquire fashion director Catherine Hayward said: "Powerful men know how to dress themselves and often stick to a uniform."
That's certainly true of American Psycho star Christian Bale, who grew up in Bournemouth and was still at Bournemouth School when he landed his breakthrough role, at the age of 13, in Steven Spielberg's blockbuster Empire of the Sun.
The youngest of four children, Christian's acting career took off at just eight years old when he appeared in a Lenor commercial. He followed that by playing a rock star in a commercial for the Pac-Man cereal and made his stage debut in The Nerd opposite Rowan Atkinson.
Once his film career took off in the wake of Empire of the Sun his father resigned his job as a commercial pilot to manage Christian's career.
Wary of the press from an early age - he once claimed to have been picked on at school following Empire of the Sun - Christian has maintained a smart, polite, if distant public image.
"Each of the men in our list has given a teasing twist to traditional tailoring and made the look entirely their own," says Catherine Hayward.
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Read the whole article here
June 9th, 2008
Christian on the "new best dressed" list.
A journalist with a penchant for Y-fronts, an Italian industrialist who delights in sporting striped chef's trousers, a Sotheby's auctioneer and a sexagenarian member of the Royal Family. The sartorial champions of 2008 have been revealed – and they're not quite who you'd expected.
According to Esquire magazine, the top-10 best-dressed men of the year include not only the Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman and Prince Michael of Kent but also Tobias Meyer, a man known in certain circles as auctioneer's "James Bond", and Lapo Elkann, the Fiat heir and the proud model of a variety of ensembles involving a blue beanie hat, a beige linen jacket and a pair of rather gaudy coloured trousers.
*Christian Bale, Hollywood actor: "Intense, intelligent, insane... His clothes aren't bad either."
Read the whole article The Independent.co.uk
June 3rd, 2008
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Bale's narrow Batman escape
Batman star Christian Bale narrowly avoided a grisly death on the set of the new superhero movie, when a plunging helicopter missed him by just feet.
The actor didn't realise how close he had come to being decapitated on location at Chicago's Sears Tower - America's tallest building - until he noticed the shocked expressions on the faces of crewmembers.
He tells Details magazine, "I've been in situations where things could have gone very wrong. I saw a number of very anxious faces on the Dark Knight when a helicopter came incredibly close to me. I was standing on the corner of the Sears Tower, on the outside 110 stories up. I felt quite oblivious to it. I was looking at the face of the pilot and just hanging there, not fully aware that the blades were actually just feet away from my head."
Source: Yahoo.co.uk
June 1st, 2008
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