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:
So if you're one of the two people in the world who haven't seen the new pics released from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland- here you go:
Helena Bonham Carter as The Queen of Hearts
Johnny Depp as Mad Hatter
Colleen Atwood has still not officially been announced as the costume designer.... and while my earlier suspicions were that it was her... I'm just not convinced this is 'HER'. It really doesn't look like her kind of thing. But who knows. Maybe it's new and crazy and different.
It's kinda weird, right?
I'm doing a lot of Vegas Showgirl research these days. I wonder if she's looking at the same guy as who's in the picture. Probably not ;)
Well over a year ago I reported on the making of the new Grey Gardens movie starring Drew Barrymore: see that post here.
And now I think we've all seen it? I watched it a bit later as I was really busy the past couple weeks but I loved it. I thought it was great and Drew was fantastic. She definitely far exceeded expectations.
Let's look at some pretty pictures, k?
Also check out some brief behind the scenes convo with Catherine Marie Thomas here.
Floresita had a beautiful post today about native americans & what that means to her. Some beautiful watercolors too. I love this girl's hair- this is not a traditional native american look but I think it's gorgeous.
A. I'm not a very Up-To-The-Minute Blogger.... I've had my head buried in the sand every one has seen this (days ago) but me.
B. I said I wouldn't devote any time or energy on the whole Sex and the City stuff but this hat is deffinately costume worthy I had to do something about it so here are my favorite guys' take on the outfit (even though I don't entirely agree with them.)
From Teen Magazine Oct 1961
Ephemerically Yours sent me this picture after seeing how much I like these helmets. Look how cool his little stripey unform is too. How funny is that tropical setting in the back?
I haven't had time to research new movie news lately so I'm going to show some great costume photos. This photo a random vintage find from Ephemerally Yours on Flickr. Clearly they/re supposed to be sunflowers- it's just surprising to me how large and bold the costumes are... you always think of the the early 1900s (I'm taking my best guess) as being delicate and soft. I wonder what sort of production they were for. Any guesses?
Go to Flickr to see more of his great photos.
Every morning as I go to work I've been seeing this poster in the subway station... I love it!! I don't think it could get any bette than this. *Pow* straight pic! No big letters or badly collaged pics of the actors in funny arrangements. Just a straight shot of the characters in the most awesome outfits I've seen in a long time.
The website is set up really great, they have the sort of old-timey poster sort of graphics. Pretty cool. Not much stuff on it though.
I'm in love with these uniforms. I'm having a sort of uniform 'Thing' lately. (Although that does not pertain to live men... how odd.) I added in this last shot to show off how the palette translates throughout the scenes. The color palette is oddly bright even though it uses muted tones. The mud is killing me! Was that a happy accident? Did Louise Frogley foresee the the mud brown color as a dominant one and worked from there? It makes the movie for me- I can't wait to see it!
Loving the bow detail on the hat. Awesome leather jacket on the Cloonster there. Nice and beat up. Emerald City glasses...okay...I can go with it.
Some bright tights. And a bright coat too. Like I said, really bright colors.. but it ends up looking very controlled and muted on screen- that's the biggest mystery: How Do They Do That?
