The many uses of a Byronic Hero
chair ( Jane & Edward - Jane Eyre)
Pillow ( Christine & Erik - Phantom of the Opera)
Car ( Catherine & Heathcliff - Wuthering Heights)
Water dispenser ( Edith & Thomas - Crimson Peak)
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Mia Wasikowska on the Crimson Peak set, photo by clionafurey
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Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) Crimson Peak.
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Crimson Peak (2015), costumes designed by Kate Hawley
Poor Things (2023), costumes designed by Holly Waddington
"The house really dictated how to approach the costumes, from a sculptural point of view, to give them extra depth, to give them a painterly quality. I didn’t want to get myself caught up in detail that didn’t feel like it meant anything, like generic lace or decoration. So all the details we made and they all came from the symbolism of the characters or the house itself. The leaves on Lucille’s dress were constructed by hand, with a single piece of cording. And for Edith, the motifs of the flowers, she blooms. It was about trying to create an atmosphere. [...] [Edith's] like a chrysalis at that point. She’s very fragile, so the butterfly is dying and becoming this little husk. [...] When Guillermo said to me, “It’s about a house that breathes,” that’s why we chose the lightest fabric, just a little thing to try and help the storytelling with the idea of the house."
"[As Edith falls in love with Thomas Sharpe,] the silhouette of the sleeves becomes fuller, and the flowers start growing on her dress. You have the world of the moon, and black, and Lucille being the moth, and Edith being the butterfly.” - Kate Hawley
"I wanted texture to be everywhere in the costumes… for everything to feel like it was living and breathing – from an animal or a sea creature from a shell. It all has a kind of organic quality to it. There are curvy, linear shapes, and no sharp lines. Bella’s costumes are very airy. Those sleeves are like huge lungs full of air, and she’s just been reanimated so that felt like a good thing to include. The huge sleeves also affect her body shape, which felt like a good idea, because she is more creature-like when she wears these.” - Holly Waddington
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Beautiful things are fragile…
CRIMSON PEAK (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro
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Thinking about Edith’s relationship to the pen as a writer and overall tool. Her father gifts her a pen, which she accepts with love, but then voices her preference for the typewriter. Specifically to make her writing more handsome and not tied to her recognizably “feminine” handwriting.
But in the end, it’s that very pen that is her escape, her emancipation from Crimson peak as she stabs it into Lucille. Lucille had intended the use of that pen to be an ironic, sickly final word on Edith’s life as she signed it away. A tool of creation, Edith’s love of writing and future ambitions, instead used as one of destruction for those very dreams. But instead, it because of that tool, used by her feminine hands, that gave her that split second chance at freedom.
Edith used the pen to get the metaphorical and literal final word.
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