Some of my class's costumes featured in The Scotsman (April 13th 2011). Go us!
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Hurray, an almost-finished costume!
Briar Rose from Sleeping Beauty
press call photoshoot
Modeled by the lovely Loren Owen
Friday, 8 April 2011
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
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
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
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.
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| Marian Taylor |
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| Denis Nolan |
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| Alice Lejour |
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| Max Lejour |
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| Maid from Gaze Castle |
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| Effingham Cooper |
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| Hannah Crean-Smith |
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| Jamesie Evercreech |
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| Philip Lejour |
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| Maid from Riders |
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| Gerald Scottow |
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| Scottow's Mother |
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| Violet Evercreech |
Monday, 1 November 2010
1920s film costume
i whipped this dress up yesterday
and this is ma faaaace (slightly frazzled by the end of the night)
Monday, 25 October 2010
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Middle Eastern costume, inspiration for current project
commonly worn traditional burnished indigo facemask.
young bedouin girl from Katri'in village area, Southern Sinai Desert, 1997
Woman from the family of Audeh abu Tayyi wearing the traditional double dress
Village women, Egypt, early 20th century
Siwa girls in their wedding finery
Jordanian bedouin costume
detail of dress and embroidered cuff with model's hands decorated with henna
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