MIRROR MIRROR

Mirror Mirror, a modern re-telling of the infamous story of Snow White, but told in such a witty and new way. I watched this film the other night, I had heard so many bad reviews about it, but you know me.. I don't care about reviews. It's my own opinion that matters.

I thoroughly enjoyed this film, it was so beautifully made. The story, the casting, the scenery and of course the costumes! All the costumes were designed by the late Eiko Ishioka (more info here), this was his last piece of work. His designs are so visually stunning and quite surreal, they take the story of Snow White to a whole other level.

The beautiful Lily Collins plays Snow White (such a perfect choice in my opinion) and her costumes are among my favourite. The dress above is so utterly gorgeous, historical in silhouette but modern in choice of fabrics and colours. The juxtaposition of simply decorated bodice with the huge printed skirt is amazing and I'm even loving the big mint green puffed sleeves. Not something I'd say often! The floral prints/motifs were chosen by Ishioka as he wanted Snow to be really connected to nature.

Another beautiful costume Lily got to wear was this huge saffron yellow cloak, which when in motion moved and billowed with grace and pure magic.  

The biggest and most extravagant costume in the entire film is the Queen's (played by Julia Roberts) wedding dress. When I say this dress was the biggest, it really was.. it weighed a topping 60 lbs and was 8 ft in diameter, that's pretty big!

I absolutely love it, I can't even imagine how long and how much work went into creating this masterpiece. It's crazy that it was only shown on screen for a couple of minutes. 

Oh, just one more thing. Can we all just sit back and appreciate how cute the Prince (Armie Hammer) is in his costume for the ball. Super cute. 

So everyone, I totally recommend this film. You'll love the alternate storyline and of course, the beautiful costumes.

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FASHION VISUALIZATION

Things have been quiet here for the past couple of weeks, apologies but I have been working non stop. Monday I had a huge deadline for my Fashion Visualization module, I had only a few weeks left to complete a research journal into the fashion of the 18th Century with designs, a layout pad with developed designs, a file full of visualization tasks we had to complete such as figure drawing, collage techniques and digital work, a final A3 fashion illustration featuring a shirt we designed from our research and a power point presentation of our work.

Phew! So as you can guess I was pretty busy! But it's all been worth it, I'm very happy with the work I did and I can see that my drawing skills have improved.. especially when it comes to figure drawing. We had to draw a model from life every Wednesday then develop refined figure templates from those, I'm really happy with how mine turned out and it's cool that they're totally mine and unique to me.

I did a lot of digital visualization too, something which I have had much experience with in past projects so I was confident with that work and did well with it. I learnt a new collage technique, using masking tape to create a silhouette, it was really effective as the texture of the masking tape mimics the texture of the fabric that would be used for a dress like this.

And this is my final fashion illustration that I made, it was inspired by the dresses of late 18th Century France, think Marie Antoinette but with a more contemporary look. I firstly hand drew the drawing, then scanned it into Photoshop and used a digital collage technique to 'color it in'. I hope you guys like it, I've already got my new project brief entitled 'Innovations' which I will be posting about very soon!

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again...

Hey everyone, just a quick post today. I was watching one of my favorite movies the other night, Mamma Mia! The Movie. Afterwards I was inspired, I loved the ABBA costumes featured at the end of the movie so I decided to come up with some designs inspired and influenced by that era.

Drawn with pencil in my Fashionary. For more information on my Fashionary, click here.

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