Sandy Powell: Young Victoria

So jealous! Jessica Schroeder at What I Wore has an interview with the incredible Sandy Powell about her costume designs for Young Victoria. Talk about an absolutely gorgeous movie! Here are two of Powell's beautiful sketches. The interview and bigger versions of these sketches are on the What I Wore website. What wouldn't I give to get a chance to meet Powell -- did I mention that I was jealous?

Images via What I Wore

**UPDATE**

Oh, and to see the rest of her beautiful renderings, and her talking a bit more about individual pieces, check out the Young Victoria website.

 

Trip to the MET

Back when I lived in NYC once a month I would make a trip to the MET to walk through and do some drawing (several guards probably remember me due to some confusion over moving a bench *grin*). I was back in the city for New Years and did some more drawings for class. In my History of Dress class, one of our projects is to draw from paintings through the years so I decided to get a head start. These are a few of my favorites and a few quickie sketches.

 

  

 

My first film!

Here's the poster for my very first film. I worked with a first year MFA film student Paul Reisinger and it was such a fantastic experience. I'm absolutely itching to do more! When I get stills I will be sure to post them.

Christmas Sweater

Going to a Christmas Party this weekend and found the perfect grey argyle cap ruffled sleeved button down sweater. After all, it wouldn't be Christmas without an embellished sweater now would it?!

New Year's Eve dress

Just finished my first quarter of grad school. I'm been lounging in bed and watching movies for the past day and a half and now I can't deal with all this free time. To keep myself busy I'm creating a Christmas break project: make my New Years Eve dress.

Now that I've tailored the pattern I'm off tomorrow to pick fabrics! Hopefully I can find a nice brocade that's not too expensive as this pattern requires 6 yards of fabric. Sister's gotta eat (granted I'd probably look better in the dress if I do that a little less often)

Crazy

For my Costume Design for Film class we're working on a design project for the film Crazy, a bio pic about the Guitarist Hank Garland. Here's one of my sketches for Billy Byrd, one of Garland's friends. In this scene it's late at night after a performance and Byrd has had far too much to drink and is running about their hotel in his underwear.

I'll also have to post my two Elvis designs soon.

Teen Angst

 

For my first year design class we are working on a quirky family (Mother, Father, Son, Daughter). Here's the daughter: Ugh, no one understands her, she loves Twilight because she relates so well to Bella, she's not an outcast but not popular either, she's right in the middle so no one notices her. She has 2 friends, loves Belle and Sebastian, doesn't have a boyfriend, likes to sit in her room and listen to music. always has her headphones on, but her mother makes her take them off during dinner. eats poptarts for breakfast.....

Mom and Son

The Stay-at-Home Dad

He's a little pale

Sewing Box

All prepared for my first day of costume construction class!

Holmes for the Home

More decorating underway. For my front door peep hole I made a Sherlock Holmes silhouette to look through. Everything is so white in the apartment and the front door is pretty wide so it definitely needed a little something to break it up. Plus, when you look through the peep hole you are essentially inspecting to see who is at the door. I felt Sherlock was appropriate for such an action.