Gwyneth Paltrow as Viola de Lesseps & Joseph Fiennes as William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love (Film, 1998).
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One Dress a Day Challenge
November: Oscar Winners
Shakespeare in Love / Colin Firth as Lord Wessex
Year: 1998
Designer: Sandy Powell
I've featured some of the women's costumes from this film before, but the men deserve some attention as well. Lord Wessex wears this magnificent outfit when he comes to inform Viola that a match has been arranged between them. The embroidery on his doublet and cloak is simply jaw-dropping in its variety and intricacy. I've included some closeups to show both the details of the embroidery and the texture of the various materials.
It's a shame we can't see what he's got for footwear, and we also never see him wearing the hat. He also manages to make the ruff look like something a person might actually wear on a regular basis.
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Just discovered this awesome blog post about the fashion of Velvet Goldmine and its influences, and the final two lines (referring to Sandy Powell) KILLED me:
"She won the 1999 BAFTA Award for Costume Design and was nominated for an Oscar, which she lost… to herself for Shakespeare in Love.
"Today, she freely admits, ‘I had two nominations in one year and I won for the wrong one.’ "
@25yearsofvelvetgoldmine
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Lily James as Ella in Cinderella (2015)
Costumes by Sandy Powell
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ONG GWEN AND SANDY ?
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Scarlett Johansson as Mary Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl (Film, 2008).
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One Dress a Day Challenge
October: White Redux
Orlando / Tilda Swinton as Orlando
Orlando is seen trying on this gown soon after waking up in the eighteenth century as a woman. Frock Flicks objects to it on the basis that wide panniers of this sort were only for court dress. While this is true, we don't really know the context of why she is wearing the dress in the movie; she was accustomed to spend a lot of time at court in her earlier time as a man, so why wouldn't she have a court dress made, and perhaps spend some time getting used to walking around in it? I do agree that that central bit at the bottom of the petticoat looks a little odd, but I think it's trick of the light that makes it look shorter than it is.
I'm including a couple of shots of her shift and stays from the dressing scene. I've also included a close-up showing the texture of the material.
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