Sandy Powell; The Other Boleyn Girl

 

These are just two of the designs for the costumes that are in the other Boleyn Girl. I think the green dress shows the wealth of the character with the vibrant colour of the fabric.

http://www.recycledmoviecostumes.com/tudorelizabethan036.html

The picture on the left shows an extra lady in waiting in 'The other Boleyn Girl' and the picture on the right shows the same dress worn by the character of Anne Boleyn in 'The Tudors'. Shows that even costumes from big productions can be re used if they fit in another production.

Yinka Shonibare 'FABRIC- ATION'

I managed to get a few pictures, shame photography was not allowed would have loved to get some close up photos of the print and the silhouette of the garments.

Prefer the bodies to have nothing in the head area, think they work better like that

FABRIC-ATION

http://www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/yinka-shonibare-mbe-fabric-ation

02.03.13 - 01.09.13


Underground Gallery, YSP Centre, Chapel & open air
Taking place in three of YSP’s indoor galleries and the open air, FABRIC–ATION features over 30 vibrant works from the period 2002 – 2013 including sculpture, film, photography, painting and collage, with many works never before seen in the UK.

Eiko Ishioka

http://www.eikoishioka.com/

Eiko Ishioka was a Japanese art director, costume and graphic designer known for her work in stage, screen,advertising and print media. She was the costume designer for the film 'Mirror Mirror'.

Vecona Clothing

http://synesthesiagarden.com/2009/09/01/vecona-clothing/
Vecona is a German couturier that makes Victorian-inspired, long-skirted, many-petticoated, tattered, Frankenstein-esque wisps of affairs. Their style ranges from historical gowns to deathrock-inspired clothing, but the Victorian influence is definitely a heavy, prominent one. 

Annie Leibovitz; Love of a Lifetime

http://rantchick.com/romeo-julietvogues-love-of-a-lifetime-feature/
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/vogues-tragic-romeo-and-juliet-spread-love-of-a-lifetime

Ziad Ghanem

http://www.ziadghanem.co.uk/
'His innovative vision has led to many collaborations with a diverse range of businesses, publications and artists. While Ziad’s models too, are selected for their unique attributes and personalities and arrive in a multitude of shapes and sizes.'
Quote off of Ghanem's website.

 These are just a few images from all on Ziad Ghane's shows through the years.I think that looking at his work can interlink with the Alternative Miss World, Ghanem doesn't conform to the usual thin, tall stereotypical models.

Andrew Logan's;The alternative miss world

http://alternativemissworld.co.uk/
Started in 1972, The Alternative Miss World is not about beauty - it's about transformation - and when it comes to costume absolutely anything goes. Like the real Miss World there is day wear, swim-wear and evening wear and the all important personality interview! But Logan refuses to let anyone rehearse, and anything can - and often does - happen.

http://www.britishguidetoshowingoff.com/
The official trailer for 'The British Guide to Showing Off'

Lez Brotherston

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/i/lez-brotherston-in-conversation/

Lez Brotherston is one of the UK’s most dynamic and innovative designers, working extensively in dance, theatre, opera, musicals and film. Best-known for his work with Matthew Bourne and the dance company 'Adventures in Motion Pictures', for which he designed the award-winning ‘Swan Lake’, Lez has also designed films, including ‘A Letter to Brezhnev’, plays, notably at Manchester’s Royal Exchange, and operas throughout Europe. He has also worked extensively with Christopher Gable, director of the Northern Ballet Theatre.

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover-more/digital-classroom/designer-sketchbooks/lez-brotherstons-sketchbook

These images show two of Brotherston's designs and the link is to an online sketchbook of his designs for one of the performances he has worked on.

London Brief- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

I have chosen this as the other piece of work for me to look at because I loved this character in the film and I love the costume Meryl Streep wears as Aunt  Josephine. I think that it is really interesting how they have managed to create an eccentric costume for the character even though the colours of the fabric are dark.

These show the sketch and the costume featured in the film.

Hollywood Costume, edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis

Information about the costume 

http://www.costumersguide.com/lemony1.shtml

High neck gown with leg-o'-mutton sleeves, 88 functional button and loop closures. The dress features 2 layers - an underdress made of different colors in alternating princess panels of light blue satin, black satin, and black crackle print taffeta. Each color panel shows through the top layer to create different backgrounds for the sheer top layers created with smocked organza and black bobbinet. There are 14 vertical rows of black punched ribbon hand painted with blue pearlized paint. The stand collar features soutache sewn into horizontal stripes."

Irene Sharaff

American born five time Academy award winning costume designer, 1910-1993

These are just a few of Sharaff's designs for different performances. I really like the way that she designs as even the designs with no colour have so much life to them. 

ArtistADay

http://artistaday.com/?page_id=734

On this website an a artist has been posted every day since the 22nd February 2007. I have looked through a few bits on it and their is defiantly some weird and wonderful artwork on it. Defiantly worth a look through as there is such a variety of things on it. 

Derek Gores

A follow up to are first designing session that we have done I did some research into artists that use collage to create their art pieces and designs.

These are just two of Derek Gores' work. In these he has used parts of magazines to create the figures and the clothing that they are wearing. I think that it look really effective but would take a while to complete each piece. I think its something that I could defiantly use in the future to help improve my designs.

Erik Sanko



 

I happened across this artist. He is not entirely relevant to what I am doing right now but I could defiantly use him in the future as the marionette's, puppets controlled from above using wires to move the limbs, are used in performances.
Erink Sanko works part of the Phantom Limb Company alongside other artists.

  

This video and the images show parts from the companys first theatre performance, The Fortune Teller (2006). I really like the style of the pupets in the performances and the idea of using them rather than people in a performance.



Sandrine Pelletier- Wild Boys

For are next textile seesion we are doing designs but using stitch rather than pen and pencil on paper. I wanted to look at artist that use this technique to give me an idea of what you can do with the stitch to create designs.

These are part of Sandrine Pelletier work titled 'Wild Boys', 2002-2004

Brad the Rat

Untitled



I prefer the bottom picture for the visual of it but I dont know whether the top on or maybe a mixture of the two. I think that this would work beter as with having the designs like the bottom of the two images some of the design might get lost in the loose threads.



Colleen Atwood

Colleen Atwood is the costume designer for Sweeney Todd (2007), Alice In Wonderland (2010), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) and Chicago (2002) among many others.

Shows the design process for two of the characters in Alice In Wonderland.  From the left it shows Tim Burton's visualisation of the characters the middle are Colleen Atwood's refined designs and the right shows the final product featured in the film.



This again shows a design process but for a different film. She has done a different style of drawing here for a different feel of film. With this as well she has drawn the character as they would be in the film or performance, which I need to start doing. 

This shows the designs for the different stages of Alice in Alice in Wonderland. I think its good to see them all next to each other and how each of the costumes relates to each other.

Metamorphosis: Titian 2012- Artists

These videos show the three artists that created the ideas behind the three ballets. They give you an insight into theit thought processes and the different ways that the artists went to create an end product for this project.

This is a slightly terrible news report but I couldnt find any other videos of Mark Wallinger's work in this exhibition.

 I have also looked through the videos on the National Gallery webistes but for some reason they will not embed into my blog.

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/content/ConMediaFile/19474?showTranscript=1

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/artist-biographies-metamorphosis-titian-2012





Useful textile website

http://www.textilearts.net/directory/

This website has a variety of different textiles artists, covering many different textile techniques. It also has links within it to different websites and blogs that explain techniques and show examples of them also. It makes a good starting point for textile research.

Roanna Wells

The Quietest Shade of Black

This shows both the full and a close up of Roanna Wells' work. I like the way she uses stitch within her work, using it as a tool for mark making and creating imagry, almost as a substitue for pan and pencil. I would like to use the this way of using stitch to influence some pieces of my life drawing. Using the stitch to create shape, shadow and depth to my pices.


The Quietest Shade of Black detail