Often I fall in love with movie gowns that are not H/A but still awesome so I have a couple I wanted to show as something I would love to create perhaps for Costume Cons or Costume College. Or adapt for my SCA life and make them H/A.
So here are 2, I really love it reminds me of the Cranach Gowns German/Saxon
(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/costumersguide/Thomas%20the%20Falconer/8092_13.jpg)
(http://s68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/costumersguide/Thomas%20the%20Falconer/?action-view¤t=8092_11.jpg)
Supposed Spanish:
(http://s68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/costumersguide/Teresa/?action-view¤t=Picture2.png)
(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i31/costumersguide/Teresa/Picture3.png)
Cilean
Love those padded channels. What is the red dress from?
Aye, I love costumes in flicks even if they sometimes make me twitch on the H/A side. Should anymore be posted, would y'all include the source so we might go oggle others in said movie? Merci.
Movie costuming was the original inspiration for me to create my own. I look back on some of those older costume flicks and giggle with what we know now. If you can put the H/A critic to sleep some are still very drool worthy.
Cilean, you went to Costume College this year, right? How was it?
Also, I love that blue one! What's it from?
(http://www.earthlydelights.com.au/Images/colourpics/Van%20Helsing/beckinsalered2.jpg)
I thought this one pretty from the film Van Helsing. Some fantasy elements from the Victorian era.
A gorgous gown no matter what!
I would love to make the coat that she wore in Van Helsing !
If I remember it, (and it was a long weary time ago...) the costuming in the film, "Anne of the Thousand Days" were pretty H/A, and gorgeous, besides. It was about Anne Boleyn...
Quote from: Lady Rebecca on August 16, 2009, 06:29:55 PM
Cilean, you went to Costume College this year, right? How was it?
Also, I love that blue one! What's it from?
Costume College ~ Was wonderful, my class on Renaissance Fabrics went very well, with the exception of a 'Classhole' who thought I was teaching a class on art history and not on fabrics. ::) My workshop on making a duct tape dummy went excellently. Still hoping we will have a Renaissance year, I am asking them for this, but it seems the only way to get it is to become the Director of that year, so I am working on it! Here are some pictures of Costume College
http://www.boston-baden.com/hazel/Pix/2009/pix7287.htm (http://www.boston-baden.com/hazel/Pix/2009/pix7287.htm)
Oh! Next year2010 shall be Steampunk and I have given people the task for Friday night will be "Anti-Goth"!!! Gothic done with light frothy things! So it would be fun. we shall be at a whole new hotel as well!
The Cranach Blue gown is from a movie in the Netherlands, I will have to remember from where I picked that up and show it to you!
Cilean
I have an aunt that works in movies that does fabrication, I was at her house one summer and saw a dress she was working on for some movie (at the time it didn't have a studio for production so she couldn't tell me the name) and the dress was georgous. She was telling me that when she worked in stage theater it didn't have to be so detailed because even from the first row, you can't see as much detail as the camera does.
I think one of my fav movie gowns was from Legend... both the first one and then the black one from the mirror dance. I'll try to find pics.
Quote from: ladydiwinter on August 19, 2009, 08:09:18 PM
I have an aunt that works in movies that does fabrication, I was at her house one summer and saw a dress she was working on for some movie (at the time it didn't have a studio for production so she couldn't tell me the name) and the dress was georgous. She was telling me that when she worked in stage theater it didn't have to be so detailed because even from the first row, you can't see as much detail as the camera does.
With one big exception of "Phantom of the Opera". Designer Maria Bjørnson insisted that the costumes should be immensely detailed. The audience would probably never see it, but the actors would KNOW it and hence act accordingly. I love that philosophy.
I have in my possession a full dress from "Phantom der Oper" in Germany, and can confirm that the details are almost surreal. The front has bead embroidery worked over a metallic fabric, echoing the pattern of the fabric. The audience will never see this (except in closeup pictures), but what a feeling it must have given to the wearer! I've been working on restoring the beaded front, as the dress has suffered from extreme fading and the thread of the beads has become brittle (plus, the tassel trims now looks like fur...). In this photo left side is done, while I'm working on the left side:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/originalwishing/th_wishingbegge.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/originalwishing/wishingbegge.jpg)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/originalwishing/th_hwishbod5.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v31/operafantomet/originalwishing/hwishbod5.jpg)
The cut of the bodice is also surreal. Check where the seams are placed in the back, five in total, and how the pattern of the fabric is still maintained. A piece of art! Again, the audience might never see this, but that's not the point. I know this is a digression, but I just wanted to say that some theatre costumes can compete with movie dresses on terms of details and finish.
One dress I have always loved and admired was the dress Jennifer Connely wore in Labyrinth. While very Cinderellish, it is a beautiful dress none the less and the hair ornamenting adds to it.
Needless to say I have always wanted one of those dress ever since I saw Labyrinth in the theater many years ago.
(http://www.cinemastrikesback.com/news/new%20dailies/labyrinth2-1024.jpg)
Lady de Laney
you read my mind
I've loved Labyrinth since the first time I saw it.
her dress is a bit poofy for my taste but definitely awe inspiring, I love her hair bling ;D
Aunty Lou, I'm with you. Anne of the Thousand Days is my #1 favorite costume movie. And I'm an Anne fan like you too. OperaFan...the picture of the front of that dress gave me chills, the devil's in the details for sure. Lady De Laney, I have ALWAYS loved that dress from Labyrinth and while I've seen people make their versions of it...no recreation has really wowed me yet. I think seeing the actual dress in person would help everyone out a lot with that. And the hair, the HAIR, is to die for! All poofy with those silver vines and leaves and the ribbons on the ends...sublime. I have the soundtrack to the movie and the song 'As the World Falls Down' always reminds me of how I used to dance around with an invisible David Bowie pretending I was wearing that dress...last week. J/k. Maybe... ;)
Anne... First to bring French Hoods to Court, long cuffs to cover that sixth finger, ah, the seductress should have borne a son! Another fav is PBS' "Elizabeth R" wih Glenda Jackson. I got to see those costumes in person in Stratford-Upon_Avon is a special exhibition. Could just barely restrain myself from touching and turning them over and out and trying to see HOW HOW HOW Wowser!
Ooohh Lady Delaney! I'm so glad to see other Labyrinth fans on here! The dress is quite nice, a bit poofy, but still yummy, especially with the hair decorations. There's just something about that whole masquerade scene- sigh..By far probably the most memorable of the movie.