amazing photoshoot by Wendy Bevan

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Costume designs for Iris Murdoch's 'The Unicorn'

These are costume designs for a hypothetical film adaptation of Murdoch's classic novel The Unicorn. 

The story's about a modern young woman, Marian Taylor, who goes to a completely unknown and remote part of the country to stay in an isolated manor house, Gaze Castle. She finds the people there odd and secretive, and eventually she discovers that the lady of the house, Mrs. Crean-Smith, is a prisoner. 

To recreate the lost and frightened feeling that Marian would feel, I've designed costumes that don't seem to have any particular setting, so it's unclear which part of the world the story actually takes place. I've combined contemporary influences with Victorian silhouettes and Middle Eastern embroidery, reflecting upon the imprisonment of Mrs. Crean-Smith and women's rights currently and historically. 

Marian Taylor

Denis Nolan

Alice Lejour

Max Lejour

Maid from Gaze Castle

Effingham Cooper

Hannah Crean-Smith

Jamesie Evercreech

Philip Lejour

Maid from Riders

Gerald Scottow

Scottow's Mother

Violet Evercreech

1920s film costume

 i whipped this dress up yesterday

and this is ma faaaace (slightly frazzled by the end of the night)