Dress Up and Play

Guys and Dolls

STUNNING photo I came across today in the Life archives. It's labeled as "Guys and Dolls" so therefore we can deduce the designer to be the incomparable Irene Sharaff.

More Vera Ellen

Cute pics of Vera Ellen from a vintage magazine.

Vera Ellen

A gorgeous dress on a gorgeous girl, Vera Ellen. Some previous pics of the gal here too.

Burton Alice Update!

Today I got my copy of D23, the new quarterly magazine for Disney Fans. I was so excited for the Alice sneaky peak I heard about... however it was a total tease. A nice little article, it focused more on Burton's career than the upcoming Alice in Wonderland movie. And the concept art that had been dangled in front of my nose was slightly disappointing.

Only one photo really gave any kind of imagery to the finished piece and lucky for us- it has some embroidery!

I can see the embroidery of a rabbit and a deer, both animals which make an appearance in the original book. I wonder if they're employing any kind of conceptual freedom regarding the characters in the Wonderland/New world being in Alice's real/original world first. I wish I could tell what that necklace was.

Get Your Leather On

Hot leather jacket. KO o o o o

Found

I found this great set of photos at the Ft. Greene Flea Market today! I am so enthralled with them. Only I have no idea what date they're from. Anyone any idea?

UPDATE: I showed these pics to my costume supervisor and some other talented young ladies and they suspect these photos of western girls in Kimono are from the very late 1880s. Major clues: the bangs popular at that time period, as well as the corseted figures underneath. They see a very high bust line which is in keeping of the corset popular at the time. Thanks ladies!

Coraline Costumes Continue

Here are some more Coraline costumes! A nice pic of the wardrobe set up for "Mother":

(Look how textured the bags and shoes are:)

And a great breakdown of all Coraline's costumes:

Watch: Creating Another World

Disney Deluxe

So I'm on the hunt for more of Burton's Alice info.... and at the same time I've just been informed that an exclusive peek was given to Disney shareholders of the Mad Hatter.   I'm super excited because I think I know where to get some info... more about that later. But until then I just found these costume sketches amongst my own library that I totally forgot I had.

Imagineer's costume concept for the original Tomorrowland's CircleVision attraction...

...and a Tomorrowland summer hostess....

 ...a Tomorrowland Submarine Voyage Captain costume...

...and this jazzy lady is for Tomorrowland's Adventure Thru Inner Space.

From the book Designing Disney by John Hench.

70s brought to life

Purple #11 from Purple Magazine on Vimeo.

Burton's Mad Hatter

New news on the Burton Alice in wonderland front:

Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter: Apparently this is an early costume test.

Now, all reason would say that Colleen is the costume designer on this, given their long history of collaboration,  but there's still no official word. And while this looks alot like Colleen... something is still off about it to label it hers. But then, that's why it's just a test. What does anyone think about this look? Anyone hear official word?