History Main / CostumePorn

* {{Film/Clueless}}: So much so that the costumes designed for this film became a staple of 90s fashion, [[{{Irony}} despite originally being intended to counter the actual fashion trends at that time, which was grunge.]] Main character Cher wears sixty-four different outfits alone and her yellow plaid outfit is still [[IconicOutfit iconic]] and recognisable today.

* [[Film/Clueless]]: So much so that the costumes designed for this film became a staple of 90s fashion, [[{{Irony}} despite originally being intended to counter the actual fashion trends at that time, which was grunge.]] Main character Cher wears sixty-four different outfits alone and her yellow plaid outfit is still [[IconicOutfit iconic]] and recognisable today.

* [[http://viejohnny.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/xerxes.jpg Xerxes's]] entire gold ensemble in ''Film/ThreeHundred''.

* This became a calling card of [[Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling Zenjo]] after the Beauty Pair took off, and for a while, gaijin in Japan were baffled by the number of money promotions spent on multiple sets elaborate ring gear that could hold up under the pressures of ring work for decades. You'd much more likely see an Ayako Hamada's [[StandardBleedingSpots skin]] give way before the [[AnimalMotifs butterflies]] she wore look wrinkled yet she'd be in [[CreepyCoolCrosses crosses]] the next show anyway. Even wrestlers with fairly plain ring gear like The Crush Gals Chigusa Nagayo and Wrestling/LionessAsuka would make up for it with lots of entrance attire. While promotions like Zenjo, GAEA, and even some tiny enterprises like REINA tended to cover the athletes from neck to toe([[MaskedLuchador sometimes head to toe]]) in eye-catching patterns and frills, a notable minority such as JD Star an infamously more fanservice driven direction.

[[http://www.pfspublishing.com/.a/6a0133f2f53db3970b016764ae25c1970b-800wi Blue Morpho butterfly]]; fitting given the butterfly motif of the film (and indeed, butterflies are present on the gown's neckline).

* ''W.E.'', about [[Film/TheKingsSpeech Prince Bertie's brother's]] affair with Wallis Simpson. Not surprising since Wallis was more glamorous than Elizabeth and the film was produced by {{Music/Madonna}}.
* Played to the max is ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'', especially with Ravenna who wears a new dress in almost every scene. Also ''everyone'' during King Magnus and Ravenna's wedding and later at [[spoiler: Snow White's coronation.]]

* Creator/KeiraKnightley has a tendency to be cast in period pieces that shamelessly revel in this trope.
** ''Film/TheDuchess'' has her in a new dress in every single scene, with plenty of {{Nice Hat}}s to go with them. Naturally its only Oscar win was for the costumes.
** Special mention must go to that damn gorgeous green dress she wore in ''Film/{{Atonement}}''. It outranked Audrey Hepburn's LittleBlackDress and Marilyn Monroe's iconic white number on a list of most beautiful dresses ever used in film! It's played with in the sense that she willingly gives up that pampered lifestyle to volunteer during World War II.
** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' naturally has an extended sequence where she's attending a formal ceremony in a fancy 18th century gown, and then spends the second act of the film in a darker (but no less elaborate) number given to her by Barbossa. The sequels avert this by having her disguised as a man and wearing men's clothes for the most part.
%%* Some Film/HammerHorror. Definitely.
* ''Film/DesigningWoman'' has Lauren Bacall as a designing woman who wears beautiful 1950s clothes, and has a gorgeous fashion show full of them.
* Coppola's ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' was a feast of fruitcake, opulent costumes.
* ''Film/TheCell'', outfitted by the same designer, took ''Dracula'''s costumes UpToEleven due to being set mostly in a psychotic LivingDollCollector's MentalWorld.
* ''Film/MirrorMirror'', by the same director, is this "dialed down" for a kid's movie.
* Jocelyn in ''Film/AKnightsTale'' sports a new dress and hairdo in practically every scene she's in.

* The kimonos in ''Film/MemoirsOfAGeisha''.
* A few gowns in ''Film/EverAfter'', most notably the gown Danielle wears to the masquerade ball.
* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'': Giselle makes her own costume porn, for the most part; the evil queen's outfit is just ridiculous.
* Spoofed beautifully in one segment in the comedy ''Film/WhatAWayToGo'', with Creator/ShirleyMacLaine's character going through five or six extravagant gowns in as many scenes.
* The Creator/LanaTurner vehicle ''Love Has Many Faces'' is less well-remembered for its paper-thin plot than for its exorbitant “million-dollar wardrobe” (courtesy of legendary Hollywood costumer Edith Head, no less). Some have jokingly referred to the film as ''Love Has Many Costume Changes''.

* The dapper suits in the 2011 film adaptation ''Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy''.
* ''Film/JupiterAscending'':
** Jupiter's [[http://www.naergilien.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/WorkPictures.jpg silver, white, and red gown]] with matching headdress. [[spoiler: It's her wedding dress.]]
** Likewise Kalique's [[http://41.media.tumblr.com/f66753f6fd4169824d638a8f53f134de/tumblr_ninprsoscr1u2rmc6o1_1280.jpg own dresses]] [[http://41.media.tumblr.com/3020bdfad173e7583c71d5225db698f6/tumblr_ninprsoscr1u2rmc6o2_1280.jpg and gowns]] fit this trope too.
** The shoes! Jupiter especially ends up in some ''fantastic'' heels, some of which even Creator/MilaKunis is visibly uncomfortable and/or struggling in.
* Despite being HollywoodCostuming, the outfits in ''Film/{{Cinderella 2015}}'' are about as grand and detailed as they might have been when the story takes place. Cinderella's ball gown in particular is ''stunning'', an iridescent, glowing blue confection of crystals and tulle that rather looks as if someone took a Hubble Space Telescope image of a blue-tinted galaxy or nebula and spun it into a gown. It also hearkens to the famous [[http://www.pfspublishing.com/.a/6a0133f2f53db3970b016764ae25c1970b-800wi Blue Morpho butterfly]]; fitting given the butterfly motif of the film (and indeed, butterflies are present on the gown's neckline).

* Queen Amidala of ''Franchise/StarWars''. Each of those dresses is based on a RealLife cultural dress, by the way. One of the most iconic outfits is based on a Mongolian wedding dress.
** There was a point to this, but AllThereInTheManual. As Queen, she's not supposed to be a person but a living symbol of her people's culture and traditions. They went over the top on traditional designs and makeup so people would first think Queen of the Naboo, not Padmé Naberrie. Even the neat little mark on her lower lip was symbolic. It's the Mark of Remembrance to serve as a constant reminder of Naboo's bloody past.
** It did have a plot purpose because she is supposed to be in disguise as a handmaiden on Tatooine and not revealed to be the same person until later in the movie.
** When Padmé's "just" a senator (and even in private) her clothes continue to be elaborate and beautiful; there was a tie-in website written as a Coruscant news site where a fashion critic gushed over her outfit.
** Also averted. While Padmé's (massive) wardrobe gets plenty of time onscreen, the costume department also dedicated tremendous effort to outfitting extras that only got about 3 seconds of screentime during a crowd scene. Case in point: [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Opula_Deget Opula Deget]].
* ''Film/CurseOfTheGoldenFlower'' pays special attention to the ridiculously opulent costumes and stylized armor worn by every character in the film. At one point, the king beats someone to death with his solid-gold belt.

%%* ''Film/TheFifthElement''. Costumes by Jean-Paul Gaultier!
* Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version of ''Film/{{Romeo and Juliet|1968}}''. The Renaissance costumes are absolutely breathtaking and absolutely period-accurate, with hundreds of yards of elaborately pleated cotton velvet on the women and raunchy, colourful tights and codpieces on the men. It deservedly won an Oscar for Best Costume Design that year.

%%* ''Film/MarieAntoinette'' films. The Sofia Coppola one in particular set out to deliberately invoke the trope.
* ''Film/VelvetGoldmine'' is a hardcore costume porn orgy.
* ''Film/DangerousLiaisons'', the 1988 film. The costumes were so amazing you see them popping up in later historical dramas, too.
* Another huge fashion show was from the pages of Vogue in ''Literature/TheDevilWearsPrada''.
* [[http://viejohnny.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/xerxes.jpg Xerxes's]] entire gold ensemble in ''Film/ThreeHundred''.
* The 1936 musical ''Film/TheGreatZiegfeld''. Good gods and demons, the film [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ick8_a-pretty-girl-is-like-a-melody-the_shortfilms is loaded with it]].
* Some Film/HammerHorror. Definitely.

* ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' received an Academy Award for Costume Design for its incredible Afrofuturist outfits designed by Ruth E. Carter, a frequent collaborator with Creator/SpikeLee. Some notable examples include [[http://blackpanthercostu.me/ramonda/ Queen Ramonda's 3D-printed ensemble]] and [[http://blackpanthercostu.me/dora-milaje/ the uniforms of the Dora Milaje.]]

* ''Film/TheFifthElement''. Costumes by Jean-Paul Gaultier!

* ''Film/MarieAntoinette'' films. The Sofia Coppola one in particular set out to deliberately invoke the trope.

* ''Series/TheBorgias''

%%* ''Series/TheTudors''

* The Franchise/{{Barbie}} films are full of this. Good Lord are they ever.

* ''Film/TheDuchess''. Creator/KeiraKnightley wore a new dress '''every single scene!!!'''
** In general, anything with Creator/KeiraKnightley will follow this trope.
*** Special mention must go to that damn gorgeous green dress she wore in ''Film/{{Atonement}}''. It outranked Audrey Hepburn's LittleBlackDress and Marilyn Monroe's iconic white number on a list of most beautiful dresses ever used in film!

* The entire Creator/ElizabethTaylor ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' was one huge orgy of this.
** Same with the [[Film/Cleopatra1934 1934]] Creator/ClaudetteColbert version.

-->''Salome was clad in the barbaric splendor of a woman of Shushan. Jewels glittered in the torchlight on her gilded sandals, on her gold breast-plates and the slender chains that held them in place. Gold anklets clashed as she moved, jeweled bracelets weighted her bare arms. Her tall coiffure was that of a Shemitish woman, and jade pendants hung from gold hoops in her ears, flashing and sparkling with each impatient movement of her haughty head. A gem-crusted girdle supported a silk shirt so transparent that it was in the nature of a cynical mockery of convention''

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' is known for this, especially for the villainous characters whose outfits are usually very detailed and flamboyant as opposed to their Disney counterparts.

* ''Webcomic/{{FairestCruelest}}'' Fitting, considering the main characters are royalty, both the "evil" Queen and Princess Delilah have closest full of sumptuous dress

* In-universe case in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' the "Kimono Goddess" filler case happens in an inn that possesses [[KimonoFanservice LOTS of beautiful and very pricey female kimonos]] (which make Ran [[CutenessProximity squeal in amazement]]) and is near the shrine of the aforementioned Goddess. This becomes a plot-point when [[spoiler: the {{Asshole victim}}}s, two {{Rich bitch}}es named Asuka and Ema, appear dead in carefully-arranged crime scenes that involve such kimonos: this is because they caused the death of Sakurako, a girl who was a big devotée of the Kimono Goddess, and her long-lost sister Chieri/Eri was also aware of the myth so she used it as criminal theme to signify her revenge against the two assholes who got her sister killed.]]

Shows up a ''lot'' in MarySue stories, where it tends to be a pretty blatant display of AuthorAppeal. Most have at least one scene describing the character's outfit as if the clothes were part of the supporting cast.

* In ''Fanfic/ChlorineGrownRoses'', nearly every chapter describes every characters' outfits and hairstyles (particularly [[MarySue Azusa's]]), most of which consist of band tees and short skirts.

* In-universe case in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' the "Kimono Goddess" filler case happens in an inn that possesses [[KimonoFanservice LOTS of beautiful and very pricey female kimonos]] (which make Ran [[CutenessProximity squeal in amazement]]) and is near the shrine of the aforementioned Goddess. This becomes a plot-point when [[spoiler: the {{Asshole victim}}}s, two {{Rich bitch}}es named Asuka and Ema, appear dead in carefully-arranged crime scenes that involve such kimonos: this is because they caused the death of Sakurako, a girl who was a big devotée of the Kimono Goddess, and her long-lost sister Chieri/Eri was also aware of the myth so she used it as criminal theme to signify her revenge against the two assholes who got her sister killed.]]

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' spends paragraphs describing the clothing and heraldry of the characters. The greater the detail, the greater the chance the wearer will be/do/experience something significant by the end of the chapter.

* In the Literature/TimeScout series, small mistakes in costume downtime can be deadly. For some reason, the characters never end up in a place where drab, simple clothes are the norm. Instead, they end up mingling with high society in VictorianLondon. Coincidence. Yeah.

* Most of the characters in ''VideoGame/HiddenCity'' wear highly elaborate outfits. Special mention goes to [[https://hidden-city-mystery-of-shadows.fandom.com/wiki/Lady_Peacock Lady Peacock's]] luxurious feather gown, [[https://hidden-city-mystery-of-shadows.fandom.com/wiki/Ang%C3%A9lique Angelique's]] lace dress and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/hidden-city-mystery-of-shadows/images/b/b4/Salem_Halloween_2020.png Salem's]] Halloween gown. Even the deceptively simple wear of [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/hidden-city-mystery-of-shadows/images/8/89/Conductor.png/ the Conductor's]] is incredibly detailed, with multiple layers of different textured fabrics.

* In his ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' series, Creator/KimNewman writes what can only be described as costume [[{{Gorn}} gorn]]. Occult detective Richard Jeperson wears only the most eye-searingly hideous of '70s fashions, and Newman describes his outfits in detail every story. "Literature/TheManWhoGotOffTheGhostTrain" has a double dose, as it features a flashback to Richard's youth that contains an equally detailed description of his wearing eye-searingly hideous ''[='50s=]'' fashions.

* ASongOfIceAndFire spends paragraphs describing the clothing and heraldry of the characters. The greater the detail, the greater the chance the wearer will be/do/experience something significant by the end of the chapter.

* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' includes costumes that are literally on ''fire'', and CostumePorn is basically Cinna's ''job''. Beyond that, Creator/SuzanneCollins uses this trope more generally to illustrate the absolute excess of the Capitol citizens.

* Sara Crewe's shopping trip with her daddy at the beginning of ''Literature/ALittlePrincess''.
* The description of the heroine's gorgeous 17th-century clothes in the historical romance ''Forever Amber'' is quite impressive.
* Parodied in ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'' book, where supposedly pages of such description were redacted from the "original version".
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''. Suffice to say that if one removes all the gratuitous clothing descriptions from the novels, the total page count would likely go down at least 40%.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' often gets into this, especially when Bella is whining about some spectacular designer outfit Alice forced her to wear and of course whatever beige ensemble Edward is wearing at the moment. Admittedly, Meyer manages to tone it down by the last book by staggering the descriptions instead of creating walls of text.
* In ''Literature/SirGawainAndTheGreenKnight'' the clothing worn by both of the title characters is described in loving detail.
* Much of the elaborate description of costume is left out of modern translations of ''Literature/TheTaleOfGenji'' as modern readers are unable to interpret the delicate social nuances, key to characterization, that would have been obvious to Murasaki' Shikibu's contemporaries.

* The descriptions of the kimonos in ''Literature/MemoirsOfAGeisha'' have been described as the best part of the book.
* In the Literature/TimeScout series, small mistakes in costume downtime can be deadly. For some reason, the characters never end up in a place where drab, simple clothes are the norm. Instead, they end up mingling with high society in VictorianLondon. Coincidence. Yeah.
* [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire George R.R. Martin]] can spend paragraphs describing the clothing and heraldry of his characters. The greater the detail, the greater the chance the wearer will be/do/experience something significant by the end of the chapter.
* Creator/TamoraPierce describes all articles of clothing in great detail. This applies to both the ''Literature/TortallUniverse'' and the ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' series. In some cases, this is understandable for characterization reasons (Sandry, a seamstress and "stitch witch," naturally takes interest in fashion while Beka Cooper makes detailed observations of any suspect or persons of interest) but it's present no matter whose viewpoint you're looking through.
* Gwen's historical costumes in ''Literature/TheRubyRedTrilogy'' are always described in loving detail.
* The ''Literature/PhryneFisher'' mysteries star a wealthy, stylish woman in a GenteelInterbellumSetting, and feature many loving descriptions of Phryne's glamorous 1920s outfits.
** The series also dips into Costume Gorn on occasion, when Phryne has to go undercover. Her "bedraggled tart" disguise in ''Cocaine Blues'' was already the tackiest kind of cheap floozy-wear (which was entirely the point), and then she distressed it to make it look realistically worn-in.