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I've been gone for so long! Sorry for the abandonment but here now to make it up to you is Tron Legacy! Oh man oh man is this exciting. I've been looking forward to this for well over a year and it looks to be incredible.
Here's a great video on how the costumes were designed. The costume designer is Michael Wilkinson, designer of other fantasy amazing pieces such as 300 and Watchman.
More to come later.
via www.variety.com
Here's a nice little blurb over at Variety on Catherine Marie Thomas, Drew Barrymore's newest favorite designer and whose worked we all know and loved on Grey Gardens.
‘She was the first good-looking couturier and because of her own strong look, everybody wanted to copy her. She was an artist who intellectualised couture for the first time,' explains Catherine Leterrier, costume designer of the exquisitely costumed film Coco Avant Chanel.
Legend has it Coco was preparing for a party and suddenly was inspired to cast off the traditional frou frou girly look for some male dominated pants. Myth has swelled to a point that she is now known as the first woman ever to wear pants.
"The fashion of that period was lovely, so it was difficult to show that Coco looked better than all these elegant women." - Catherine Leterrier
Coco Chanel's major influences were the introduction of menswear inspired pieces for women and the innovative use of jersey fabrics.
"she was her own muse", says Leterrier.
Part 3 of Coco Avant Chanel costumes coming soon.....
FANTASTIC article in the NY Times centered around costume designer Arianne Phillips ... she is quite amazing.
Read it here NOTE: you might have to click on the words to get the graphics unscrambled... I had to do that quite alot.
'500 Days of Summer' starring Zooey Dechanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a super cute, highly stylized yet still comfortable feeling movie.
In the entire movie, Zooey, who plays Summer, is in blue. In every scene. Which highlights them there pretty peepers.
Joseph has very geeky cool ties. Cause he's a geeky cool guy.
The film's costume designer is Hope Hanafin. Who, luckily for us, has her own portfolio website- yes!!! She's been doing some fantastic work, I am thrilled to be able to view it in a more visual format, not just as a list on imdb... but I digress... back to the blue:
In this interview with Hope, she talks about the choice of blue for Zooey's character and her use of it throughout the film:
"That was an instruction given to me by the director, Marc Webb. Zooey has the most amazing blue eyes, so he wanted her character to be in blue. So she wears it, but more importantly, nobody else does."
"It was for her eyes, but it was also the romance from a male point of view. Even when you first see her, she has on a white shirt, but still has a blue butterfly. So it tracks all the way through. I just wanted there to be a way to make her stand out. Because she is such the object of desire that in a crowded room the audience and Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) would immediately be drawn to her. She becomes a magnet."
"The only other place blue is used is the dance sequence, after Tom's first night with Summer. The whole world would turn into her, so that’s what everyone is in blue in that scene — the construction workers, the mailmen, the office workers. Everything becomes kind of a reflection of his love for her."
(Now I have to look for an article that talks about that wallpaper... I love that wallpaper!)
Read the full interview to find out where... or rather, where you CANNOT get that dress... cause I know you all want to know!
p.s. My favorite costume, however, is this cutie little petal shaped hat on Lil Summer in the title sequence:
How cute is that!
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
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.
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!
