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iwouldvebeendrake01 · 1 month

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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

#poor things #crimson peak #holly waddington #kate hawley #fashion #fashionedit #edith cushing #lucille sharpe #bella baxter #my edits #mine

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costumeloverz71 · 17 days

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Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) Traveling coat. Crimson Peak (2015). Costume by Kate Hawley.

#edith cushing #mia wasikowska #crimson peak #kate hawley

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fuckyeahcostumedramas · 10 months

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Mia Wasikowska as Edith Cushing in Crimson Peak (Film, 2015).

#mia wasikowska #edith cushing #crimson peak #perioddramaedit #19th century #kate hawley

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letthefairyinyoufly · 2 years

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LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER costume appreciation:

✦ Galadriel's golden gown ✦ Costume design by KATE HAWLEY 1x01: A Shadow of the Past

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theseimmortalcoils · 1 year

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Lady Lucille Sharpe (Jessica Chastain) at the piano in Guillermo del Toro's opulent film Crimson Peak.

Costume by Kate Hawley.

#crimson peak #jessica chastain #guillermo del toro #lady lucille sharpe #kate hawley #film costumes #period costumes

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buffyfan145 · 9 months

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Great Twitter thread here of Kate Hawley's "Rings of Power" panel at Comic Con today talking all about the costumes she and her team made during season 1!!! :D Learned so more than I knew and tagging characters she mentioned and CBR posted. The panel likely will be uploaded during the coming week on YT by SDCC's account.

#the lord of the rings #the rings of power #kate hawley #galadriel #halbrand #sauron #nori brandyfoot #prince durin #princess disa #gil galad #elrond #adar #arondir #comic con

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cressida-jayoungr · 2 years

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Why the "Rings of Power" Costumes Fail to Reflect Their Source Material

Tolkien-geek nerdrant incoming.

I'm not currently watching The Rings of Power, but I have been seeing images of the costumes, and I just have to rant a little about them. Apart from their general attractiveness or lack thereof--mostly the latter, in my opinion--they are making me wonder whether Kate Hawley, the costume designer, has even read the source material. Or understood it, if she did read it.

I hear that she has done much better work on other projects. But I'm sorry, she really dropped the ball here, and it can't be chalked up just to not having enough money or time. There are fundamental problems at the concept level.

It's easy to guess the general thinking: "Since the LOTR movies were designed around a medieval look, the look of this series should be based on Greek and Roman styles, with simpler construction, in order to convey that it's an earlier time." This would make perfect sense for most fantasy series, but it's dead wrong for Tolkien.

In Middle-Earth, "progress" isn't really a thing that happens, unless you're talking about the Years of the Trees or maybe the First Age. After that, it's all downhill with a few small backtracks along the way. Each civilization is less grand than the one that came before it. Knowledge and techniques are lost. The costumes should reflect this. The clothing of the Second Age should be more intricate and decorative than that of the Third Age. They could go full Bollywood with the jewelry, for both Elves and Númenoreans: ropes of pearls, gem-studded belts, etc. (But also take a lesson from Bollywood on how to make lots of jewelry look tasteful and not over the top.)

Speaking of jewelry, there is far too much use of gold. In the source material, Dwarves like gold, but Elves are all about silver, or better yet, mithril. And pearls and white or clear gems such as diamonds. Stuff that makes them think of starlight. You're telling me Gil-Galad, whose name literally means "bright star," would dress entirely in gold from head to toe? I don't think so. Gold also has a slightly negative connotation in Tolkien's writing as being a little bit base and corrupting. That's why Ar-Pharazôn's title of "the Golden" isn't entirely a compliment; it's a hint at how he embodies the perverting of Númenor's society. Lana Marie put it well in her video on this show's costumes when she said, "It's almost poetic how Amazon seems to think that plastering gold on everything makes a garment look regal and expensive and classy."

This brings me to the show's idea that the symbol of Númenor should be a sun. It shouldn't; it should be a star. The island is shaped like a star. Its alternate name, Elenna, means "starward" because of the star that led the first people to it. (And before anyone wants to be cute and say the sun is also a star--no, in Tolkien's world, it's not. It's a fruit of the golden tree, Laurelin, carried through the sky by a maia on a flying ship.) I could buy the idea of Ar-Pharazôn introducing the sun as a new symbol or making it his personal royal banner, but the show starts before he becomes king and they're already using suns, so nope.

And finally, nobody should be wearing full plate armor. Nobody in Tolkien wears plate armor. It's always mail of one sort or another. Yes, I know Ngila Dickson had the Gondorian army wear plate armor in the ROTK movie, but she was also wrong. (Besides, she said it was supposed to make them look outdated and irrelevant.) Frankly, as wonderful as the design of the LOTR movie trilogy was, I feel that most of the stuff in Gondor wasn't up to their usual standard; maybe they were running short on time and/or energy by then. But that's a whole different rant.

I'll close out by recommending Lana Marie's redesign of Miriel's costume.

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#the rings of power #tolkien #costume design #numenor #kate hawley #rant #rings of power #television costumes #tv costumes #fantasy costumes #rings of power critical #rop critical #anti rings of power #rings of power amazon #costumes #the lord of the rings: the rings of power #Youtube #rop amazon

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theartofcostume · 10 months

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Excited to share this conversation I moderated with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power costume designer, Kate Hawley.

#costume design #the art of costume #costume designer #the lord of the rings #the rings of power #kate hawley #crimson peak #Youtube

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flurryheaven · 1 year

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25th Annual Costume Designers Guild Award Nominations - Excellence in Sci-Fi / Fantasy Television

Jany Temime - House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 1 “ The Heirs of the Dragon”

Kate Hawley - The Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power: Season 1, Episode 1 “A Shadow of the Past”

Debra Beebe - Westworld: Season 4, Episode 4 “Generation Loss”

Laura Montgomery - What We Do in the Shadows: Season 4, Episode 6 “The Wedding”

Lucinda Wright - The Witcher Blood Origin: Episode 4 “ Of Mages, Malice, and Monstrous Mayhem”

#costume designers awards #costume design #television #nominations #jany temime #house of the dragaon #kate hawley #the lord of the rings #the rings of power #debra beebe #westworld #laura montgomery #what we do in the shadows #lucinda wright #the witcher #blood origin #costumes #tv #best costumes on tv

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glitched-eyes · 2 years

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Edith cushing in the Nancy Drew Dress. Crimson Peak (2015)

Got to be one of my favourite movie costumes.

#this dress us truly stunning #there is so much symbomism in just this one costume.#Kate hawley the designer talked a lot about how edith's costumes represent her in the film and tie into the themes #i wrote a whole essay about lucille's costumes in my first year of uni #but i couls write a whole other one on ediths costumes #crimson peak #edith cushing #tom hiddleston

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lemochaaa · 8 months

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TALLY ART

“pov: Zoob in two wuv”

(crys in stalker)

#tally hall #music #rob cantor #andrew horowitz #joe hawley #ross federman #zubin sedghi #hawaii part ii #ross federman wannabe #fanart #two wuv #mary kate olsen #ashley olsen #mary kate and ashley #olsen twins #art #shitpost #bad art

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nottheperfectwarlock · 1 year

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Sudden meta realisation: people whinged that Galadriel wore armour with the star of Fëanor in Rings of Power, but given she arrived in Numenor with only a shift and Finrod’s dagger, it’s a safe bet that the armour she wears back to Middle-Earth was not originally her armour, bc:

1. Even though Numenorean smiths are good, that armour’s plainly elven-made, or at least elven-styled, and probably pulled from the Numenorean Royal vaults, unless Elendil has a Faithful priest-hole/elvish otaku shrine somewhere in his house, which would be comedy GOLD.

2. If Galadriel’s armour did come from Numenor’s Royal vaults, the Star of Fëanor makes perfect sense, because who would be more likely to both have relics from the War of the Jewels/War of Wrath, a sentimental fondness for the Feanorian faction (or at least two of the Soms of Fëanor), and enough goodwill/clout with the Sindar of Lindon to lay claim to items associated with them than Elros Tar-Minyatur?

(I just have kidnap fam feelings, okay, and refuse to believe Elros wouldn’t have acknowledged his homocidal adoptive dads while he was alive)

#the silmarillion #kidnap fam #the rings of power #say what would will about the show #I do respect how they tried to allude to key points of the silmarillion dedpite not having the rights #I also bet that if this was deliberate Kate Hawley was behind it #bc that woman is THOROUGH #second age shenanigans #Galadriel #elros tar minyatur #elros

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costumeloverz71 · 1 year

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