The real stars of the silver screen

As the V&A museum in London opens an exhibition of iconic Hollywood costumes, Suzanne Harrington takes a look at the stories behind the clothes.

IMAGINE walking through a darkened room filled with Hollywood movie heroes and heroines, gods and goddesses, baddies and goodies.

Where a simple brown fedora and bullwhip conjures up swashbuckling adventure. And a small pair of sparkly red shoes in a glass case triggers all your memories of a faraway world of wizards and witches and yellow brick roads.