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Top Five Fancy Dress & Themed New Years Eve Parties
Guest bloggers Design My Night recommend some great New Years Eve party ideas Read more...
'Mental Patient' Asda & Tesco fancy dress outrage
Following explosive online commentary, Escapade provide their angle on why they're still stocking the 'Psycho Ward' costume that has recently been removed by supermarket giants Asda & Tesco. Read more...
The Curious Case of Costume Criminals in Times Square
TIMES SQUARE in New York City was once the cities seedy underbelly. The area once full of sex shops, drugs and high crime rates is now one of cities biggest tourist attractions. However, a new and unlikely criminal element has been making headlines in the form of costumed street performers. The AP reports that most of the street performers are poor U.S. immigrants who don character costumes and beg people to pose for photos with them. The photos of course aren't free and what on the surface looks like a... Read more...
Breaking Bad Costumes Donated to Charity
As the Fifth and final season of Breaking Bad winds to a close the bosses behind the show have donated the costumes worn by the cast to a local Albuquerque, New Mexico charity organization. Boxes of costumes, worn by the shows star Bryan Cranston who plays a chemistry teacher turned drug dealer after being diagnosed with cancer, and other cast members were donated to Joy Junction, one of the largest homeless shelters in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Profit from the outfits which have been on sale in Joy... Read more...
Oscar Winner Jennifer Lawrence’s Silver Linings Playbook Costumes up For Auction
A range of costumes worn by Jennifer Lawrence in her Academy Award winning role for Silver Lining’s Playbook have gone on auction this week. The outfits include the actresses sexy white dance costume and even her sports bra. On Sunday the 22-year-old Hunger Games actress walked away (and tripped a little) with the award for Best Actress at the 85th annual Academy Awards for her role as a troubled widower in Silver Lining’s Playbook. Shortly after winning the award outfits worn in the film by both Lawrence and her “sexiest... Read more...
Win Free Cineworld Halloween Movie Tickets
We’re teamed up with our favourite cinema Cineworld again to celebrate the release of the Halloween themed Frankenweenie. To celebrate the spooky season we are giving you the chance to win one of two pairs of free Cineworld cinema tickets which can be used in any UK Cineworld cinema. Read more...
Freddie For A Day - Freddie Mercury Fancy Dress Celebration
If on Wednesday the 5th of September you found yourself doing a few double takes of yellow jacket wearing, lycra and leather clad Freddy Mercury look-alikes you are not alone, and you are not going mad. The moustached masses were paying homage to the late Queen front man with the annual Freddy For A Day (FFAD) charity celebration. The celebration which was set up in 1992 by the AIDs charity Mercury Phoenix Trust is now a worldwide celebration encouraging all of those willing to be involved to don some form... Read more...
“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” Hire “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Costume Designer
While fans of the Hunger Games still await the announcement of new cast members for the trilogies second film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire one thing is for certain, whoever ends up playing the roles will look fantastic. This is because the studio announced this week that one of the most up and coming talents in film costume design Trish Summerville has been announced as the films costume designer. Read more...
The Dark Knight Rises and Google Searches for Batman Costumes Rise With It
With the year’s most anticipated film The Dark Knight Rises set to light up cinema screens across the UK and the rest of the world this Friday, at Escapade we have already seen a steady increase in searches and request for the films related character costumes. Over the next few weeks, at least until the Olympic Games steals their thunder, the Dark Knight Rises will be the hottest tickets in town (whatever town you live in). The Dark Knight Rises has been one of most hyped films of 2012 and... Read more...
Original Ghostbusters Proton Pack and “Slimer” the Green Ghost to be auctioned
After the news of the discovery of the Higgs boson set the scientific communities tongues wagging last week, another major win for science (albeit fictional science) has been announced with the news that the original Ghostbusters Proton Pack will be falling under the hammer on the 30th of July in Los Angeles. Although it isn’t clear which of the Ghostbusters wore this particular proton pack (it is rumoured the packs were alternated throughout filming, so it is possible all four of them wore it at one point) it is the... Read more...
Michael Keaton’s Batman Costume and Jim Carrey’s Riddler’s Outfit go up for Auction
The costume worn by Michael Keaton in Batman Returns is set to go up for auction in Hollywood later this month. Batman Returns was Tim Burton’s second crack at the character franchise and it was lauded as a major success both in the box office and amongst critics. Now you can get a piece of film and cinematic history by getting your hands on Keaton’s costume which, includes a rubber body suit, rubber boots and a rubberised cape, but be warned it won’t be cheap and the costume is estimated... Read more...
CERN Scientist Announce Discovery of Higgs boson - The God Particle
Tomorrow in Melbourne, scientist from CERN, the European nuclear research institute are expected to announce the discovery of the Higgs boson or as it is better known in layman's terms, “the God particle”.The announcement, set for 8:00 am GMT, is widely considered to be one of the most important in modern science as early rumours suggest the CERN team have found light at the end of the tunnel in the forty-eight year search for the Higgs boson particle. Read more...