The Great + Costumes

The Great + Costumes

Catherine the Great’s turquoise & pink dress in Season 02, Episode 09.

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The Origin of Darius and Alador's Rivarly

Mme de Monte-au-ciel et M. le Chevalier de Belle Grecque

Louvre

From design to costume: Emma Watson’s Beauty and the Beast costumes, as designed by Jacqueline Durran ( X ) ( X )

“Those costumes exist in people’s imaginations and all I wanted to do was to honor what they expect those costumes to be in a live action movie”

On the blue village dress: “We decided to take inspiration from the 1991 movie and enrich the world using historical details from 18th century France. (…) Belle has the pockets hanging on the outside of her costume. The pockets act as a sort of toolbelt where she keeps all the things useful to her in her day to day life, those are the two elements we really looked for. The pant-like bloomers are nice, as you can tell, but also again they were part of her being able to be more active, so that you don’t feel restricted by wearing a skirt because you can just pull it up and then just do whatever you were going to do.”

On the yellow ball gown: “Emma was quite categorical that she didn’t want a big princess dress. She wanted to have something she could move in and she definitely, adamantly would not be wearing a corset. The finished product is a lightweight combination of tulle, satin organza and taffeta, made to twirl and look as though it is made by/from the castle. I think in the movie, it’s difficult to see some of the detail, but the idea that Madame Garderobe gets the gold pattern from the ceiling and puts it around the dress, meant that we had to print a gold print on the dress”

The red snow attire: “That costume was made entirely from sustainable fabrics. We dyed it in vegetable dyes in our workroom, we had shoes made with eco leather and we did the whole thing from top to bottom to be as thorough as we could. People learned different skills in the work rooms to be able to do it, so they dyers learned to dye with strange vegetable dye. Sometimes it took two weeks to dye something because you’d have to leave it in there for that long to get a rich color”

http://people.com/movies/beauty-beast-costumes-making-of-details/

The Great + Costumes

Catherine the Great’s creme, pink & brown dress in Season 02, Episode 10.

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“The Peacock Dress,” 1902

Designed by House of Worth

Worn by Lady Curzon, Vicereine of India, at the Delhi Durbar which celebrated of the coronation of Edward VII. The gold, silk, and beetle wing fabric was created in India and sent to Paris to be made into the dress by House of Worth.

via National Trust