Dress Up and Play

Coco Avant Chanel part.1 The Beginning

Audrey Tautou plays Coco Chanel in the upcoming biopic Coco Avant Chanel. 

Costume Designer Catherine Leterrier was brought on for the challenging task of recreating the most influential couturier to ever grace the earth. As the film follows Chanel's life - mostly her early years- you will almost never see the tradition Chanel looks we know today.

 

Coco Chanel was abandoned by her parents early in life - having to find her own way by working as a seamstress and then as a milliner.

 

The movie follows Coco in her early years, concentrating on her rise and the early elements that would influence her design choices.

 

 

 

 

‘Of course there is pressure because Coco was the greatest. It is like, for an actor, when you play Shakespeare. But then I just approached it like any other film,' Catherine Leterrier

So You Think You Can Dance

Some more Soyon An from So You Think You Can Dance from the Top 8... loved this number! Haven't watched tonight's yet- don't tell me what happens!

Happy 100!

Babes in Toyland , originally uploaded by Chickeyonthego.

This is our 100th post- Thanks to everyone who drops in every day and makes this a fun place to be!

'The Reader' costume sketches

I found these beautifully delicate sketches by Ann Roth, costume designer, for "The Reader."

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I haven't seen this movie yet, but I did get a chance to speak to Ann Roth last Fall, much to my absolute shock and amazement and horror. She was invited to speak to a class and I joyously was invited with a few others to sit in. She had sandals and blue toe nail polish and sat with her hands folded over her head mostly the whole time. She gave us advice that we have not stopped talking about since:

"You can have anything you want as a costume designer. Anything. You can have anything you want! Well... except for two things....BUT! You can have anything you want." 

we all prodded her to puh-lease fill in... to which she just shook her head and said "I am not here to talk about that" with a little smile.

Six months later, I still think about that every day and scratch my head.

Lady Gaga talks Kermit

She is quite captivating tho, isn't she?

I would love to see her on the muppet show in a sketch where they make a muppet of her. She would make a great muppet!

Vera Ellen in detail

Probably the most popular hits I get on this bloggie o mine is my posts on Vera Ellen- who knew she had such a following!

Well for all those searching out there, I finally found some nice detail images of the favorite Vera Ellen costume, that Edith Head creation that she wears for the 'Mandy' number in White Christmas.

Vera Ellen in a photo shoot for the Mandy number. There looks like there are some ruffles on the front leg hole that have maybe fallen apart over the years. Organza is not a fabric that usually stands the test of time.

 

We know that that train goes over that bustle to come off later, but I'm guessing they wanted to show as much as possible in the picture. I wish the gloves came with it!

So You Think You Can Dance Top 10

Last week on the results show of the Top 10 competition, was a fantastic Wade Robson routine that really was the best group routine of the season:

 

The kimono and Japanese inspired costumes were by far some of the best on the show and worked really really well:

 

 

The "Top Ten" girls:

 

...and the "Top Ten" guys:

 

And the best for last- Soyon An talking about the costuming process for this piece:

Burton's Alice in Wonderland Teaser Trailer

Tim Burton's teaser trailer for Alice in Wonderland is finally here!! It was released on Trailer Addict today... and by the time I tried to post here was removed immediately by all officials involved. Poo.

But! I snagged a few photos before that happened hehe

So we've seen what Alice, played by Mia Wasikowska, is wearing in the film... or rather- the beginning of the film!
Click here to see my previous scans also.

 

Now it looks like she gets a sort of something else once she enters wonderland and shrinks out of her original dress:

 

 

...and as far as the Mad Hatter goes... there's more of this:

 

I'm tempted to get a little scared but by the looks of it, it's all coming along beautifully on screen... of course. I don't know why I ever doubted.

And the costumes are OFFICIALLY the Official Ms. Colleen Atwood. She knows how to do everything right.

I will post the trailer the second they want people to actually see and enjoy it... until then we will have to look forward to March 5, 2010!

Soyon An does it right

Soyon An - resident costume designer on my favorite show of all time, So You Think You Can Dance, dishes her process for the best fastest costume show around right this summer... so inspired.

Confessions of a Shopaholic

 

Watch this video and see a snippet of how stylist extraordinaire Patricia Fields makes it happen:

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