Get the Las Vegas look from Ocean's Eleven

Just look at the line-up. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon – from the very beginning Ocean’s Eleven was destined to become a Hollywood handbook on screen style. A film costume designer might expect to dress one or two stars of such wattage on a movie, but to dress all of them for a single one? Costumier Jeffrey Kurland certainly had his work cut out. He had a pretty impressive CV prior to his work on Ocean’s Eleven, having won a BAFTA in 1988 and been Oscar-nominated in 1995. But it was surely Erin Brockovich, his previous collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh and leading lady, Julia Roberts for which he picked up a Costume Designers Guild Award that secured him the gig on the star-studded remake of the 60s Rat Pack caper.

And clothing the likes of Clooney and co. was one big job. “Jeffrey had his work cut out for him,” jokes Soderbergh, adding: “He really had his hands full.” The role meant creating a signature look for each of the different eleven con-men involved in the Las Vegas casino heist, as well as love interest Roberts and arch rival Andy Garcia. Adding to the workload were the huge number of costume changes (Kurland estimates that each character had at least ten) and the expectation that the clothes ooze sophisticated glamour. As the remake of a film beloved for its sharp style and starring some of Tinseltown’s elite, the characters couldn’t be clad in drab, everyday wear you can buy off the peg in any high street store. Soderbergh wanted the clothes to “seem theatrical without being unreal” and so Kurland set to work.