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(News Today) - Cinematic styles are coming to a wardrobe near you, writes Rachel Wells. Grazia magazine recently ran a six-page spread of trends likely to be sparked by Disney-Pixar's latest animated production, Toy Story 3.

The mag is expecting a rush on Jessie and Woody's western looks, Dolly's orange smock, Buzz's neon cosmonaut chic, Hamm's nude colouring and Barbie's "bubblegum brights". I would have thought there would be more chance of us dressing like The A-Team's B.A. Baracus (mohawk, anyone?) than a pull-string cowboy doll and a space ranger, but stranger things have happened.

Don't forget that when Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are was released last year, American fashion label Opening Ceremony reported a rush on its adult version of Max's white wolf suit, complete with furry ears and tail.

There is no question that film has a big impact on fashion. Over the years, cinema has not only influenced fashion trends, it has, at times, revolutionised the way we dress. The 1934 film It Happened One Night, for example, is said to be responsible for the demise of the undershirt, following a scene in which Clark Gable rips off his shirt to reveal a bare chest.

The film, showing at a time when most men wore undershirts, led to a significant slump in sales, with some reports suggesting up to 75 per cent of American men ditched the garment. And in 1938, Katharine Hepburn boosted the popularity of women's trousers when she wore wide-legged pantsuits in Bringing Up Baby. The defiant actor reportedly walked around the studio in her underwear until film bosses, who had instructed her to wear skirts, finally allowed her to wear her trousers on set.

In recent years, there has been a spate of films in which clothes have played a leading role. Since the phenomenal success of The Devil Wears Prada in 2006, fashion films such as Valentino: The Last Emperor, Sex and the City, Coco Avant Chanel, Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky, the American Vogue documentary The September Issue and Tom Ford's A Single Man have flooded the box office.

While Carrie and co have already stamped their mark on new-season fashion trends in the form of harem pants, turbans, flowing kaftans and maxi dresses, in the coming weeks and months we can expect even more trends to trickle from the big screen to the street.

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