Tailoring meets bad-boy rugged bomber-chic in a high wind. Does anyone else have a fashion lob on? These outfits are so, like, now. For women, nipped in waists will be huge for autumn/winter (Stella McCartney, Zac Posen). For men, a leather bomber, even huger (Viktor & Rolf, Junya Watanbe). It's like even though it's 1942, they just knew Photograph: SNAP / Rex Features
Hitchcock sure loved a good, sinister, strange-faced villain. This is 1930s king of the creeps Peter Lorre (remember 'M', that 1931 German film where he's a serial killer bumping off little girls? Shudder). His eyes seem, if anything, even more boggly and marionette-like in TMWKTM, not helped by the whole hairy camel coat/curious feather-like combover combo Photograph: ITV/Rex Features
Grrrrrrrr, darrrrlink, hello darrrlink. This is the moment when Marlene is trying on her funeral look while dexterously smoking profusely under her gargantuan veil (because she's cool like that), a smile about to play across her cushiony lips. This look is proof that seriously outre mourning garb is THE strongest look a woman can muster. This is flattering, attention-grabbing, laughably theatrical, demurely elegant, involves Tudor-esque head garb and was designed by Dior. The bar is high Photograph: SNAP / Rex Features
Here we see the climax to Jamaica (no, she wanted to) Inn, where dastardly Charles Laughton has kidnapped Maureen O'Hara and it's all gone a bit sub-dom, made even more sinister by the compelling mobility of Laughton's stuck-on panto eyebrows. This film is overblown, hammy and camp beyond all earthly reason. And I love it. There are pirates in guyliner, shrunken jackets, wonky too-small top-hats and striped pantaloons. It's so Vivienne Westwood circa 1981 Photograph: Moviestore Collection/Rex
The chic mint suit, the pinned-up hair, the louche pose, James Stewart in his PJs doing something with his crotch in a wheelchair behind her – what's not to love about this still of Grace Kelly lying on a bed? If you remember, this is halfway through the little striptease she does where she takes off her pillbox hat and gloves and peels right down to her silky negligee, at which point Stewart is all: 'Oh crap, I'm a photographer confined to a wheelchair, where's me long lens?' Photograph: Moviestore Collection/Rex
Robert Donat, seen here in practically the only moment where he's not scampering across the countryside wearing a tweed overcoat and an anxious look on his face, demonstrates the moment in time when a skinny pencil moustache, a plucked, shaped eyebrow and a waved, pomaded hairdo signified the last word in hunk Photograph: ITV / Rex Features
Hedren, the archetypal Hitchcock blonde, pats a horse's velvety nose in a canary yellow tone-on-tone look with intrinsic scarf while Sean Connery looks on in tweed and a tie pin. This picture delights me in so many ways – as did Marnie, the tense tale of a woman so haunted by events in her past that she is afraid of thunderstorms, the colour red and boning. But thankfully she is still perfectly able to bust out a series of incredible couture outfits and flawless beehives. Phew Photograph: Moviestore Collection/Rex Features
James Stewart: 'Cmon, tell me why you're alternating between driving around in black gloves and a chignon and pretending to be Judy Barton from Salina, Kansas, with the stuck on kiss curls. I keep having flashbacks and I'm still confused about exactly what happened on the bell tower.'
Kim Novak: 'I can't bear to look at you. I know you've been trying to make brown suits happen but I just don't think it's working.'
James Stewart: 'Pshaw, c’mon.'
Kim Novak: 'No. Try charcoal' Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Paramount
If there's a film moment more fashion than the suspense-ridden lesbian subtext between Mrs de Winter and Mrs Danvers, I can't think of it. I'm talking about the hair-brushing scene, when you're thinking: 'Is she going to throttle her or get off with her? Why can't we SEE this Rebecca person? DON'T GO DOWN TO THE BOAT HOUSE!' I like the contrast between Mrs D's strict severity and Joan Fontaine's frilly girlishness. It makes me think of holidays, Christmas and Blue Mondays at Yo! Sushi Photograph: Courtesy Everett Collection/Rex Features
Well hello there Mr Bare Chest, what's cooking under those excessively high-waisted trousers? Hodiak could be in that French Connection campaign – the one that doesn’t make any sense and looks like fisherman’s clothes. There's also a joke here involving Tallulah Bankhead but I can't quite seem to get there Photograph: Snap/Rex Features
'Hello. I’m Cary Grant and I’m a badass. That’s right, you heard me. Did I stutter? Look at me. Look at this badass wearing badass shades. Yes, I’m indoors. Yes, they’re tortoiseshell. Yes, that’s Eva Marie Saint next to me. We’re in an Hitchcock film for f’s sake' Photograph: Snap/Rex Features
Through the perfect wave of golden hair and porcelain skin she emotes. If you didn’t already have a touch of ornithophobia this piece of celluloid would do the job. I’ve not looked at a beak the same way since. But even though there’s a swarm of murderous birdies behind her, Tippi still looks fabulous x 1000. Squawk!
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Another classic Hitchcock moment where you're like, 'Did he have a time machine to the catwalks of the 21st century, specifically autumn/winter 2012, or what?' Let's tick off those impossibly forward-looking trends: homespun/handmade knitwear – tick. Fashion model cheekbones – tick. Big eyebrows (yes, they're back) – tick. Textured hair – tick. Barely there flawless-finish makeup – tick. Hollywood smile – tick. No wonder he was knighted Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features
Query: Is this a smoking jacket or is the pioneer of the suspense thriller inexplicably wearing a dressing gown over his tuxedo? Such a shame that these old customs have been lost in the mists of time. Whatever the reason, everything about this screams stylish auteur of cinema. Look at the poise! Incidentally, it’s quite hard to find a photo of good old Alfred where he isn’t doing something curious with a rook Photograph: Moviestore Collection/Rex Features
