Sarahfuller

Friday, 28 January 2011

Sleeping Beauty pop-up book: A collaboration with the wonderful illustrator Sophie Jamieson

These are my costume designs for a production of Sleeping Beauty, inspired by the oldness of fairytales. The beautiful backgrounds are by Sophie Jamieson.

Scene 1: a prince meets an old peasant woman who tells him the story of the Sleeping Beauty.

Scene 2: The King and Queen hold a great ceremony to celebrate the birth of their daughter, Briar Rose. All the fairies give the baby one gift, including the wicked fairy Carabosse.

Scene 3: The King and Queen watch as all the spinning wheels in their kingdom are burned.

Scene 4: 16 years later, Briar Rose finds an old woman spinning in one of the high turrets of the castle. She pricks her finger and the enchantment takes hold.

Scene 5: The King and Queen, who had gone to buy Briar Rose a wonderful gift, return to find the entire castle fast asleep. Luckily, the youngest fairy arrives, putting them to sleep too.

Scene 6: A hundred years later, our Prince finds his way to the castle to wake Briar Rose and the castle celebrates the Royal Wedding.

Full view of the pop-up book.

Saturday, 22 January 2011

Carabosse, the wicked fairy from Sleeping Beauty

detail

Tuesday, 18 January 2011

My puppets

Thursday, 13 January 2011

Dead good hair and make up inspiration

Julien d'Ys hair sytling, Phyllis Posnick styling, Annie Leibovitz photography.

Monday, 29 November 2010

amazing photoshoot by Wendy Bevan

http://img17.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=25362_renaissance4_122_665lo.jpg

http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f71/jacob-k-stylist-53184-6.html

Thursday, 18 November 2010

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.