Ahead of Sunday's Academy Awards (ABC, 8 ET/PT), we're unveiling our first-ever augmented-reality Hollywood experience, allowing readers to explore the underpinnings of epic costumes from Oscar favorites "Black Panther,”“Bohemian Rhapsody,”“The Favourite,”“Mary Poppins Returns,”“BlacKkKlansman” and “Mary Queen of Scots.”
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This is a year of costumes that most comprehensively covers all aspects of genre in costume design. Traditional historical, styled historical, historical fantasy, futurism, and realism of the past handful of decades are all represented in beautiful displays of artistry. Mary Queen of Scots was so wonderfully cold and icy even with copious amounts of wool and furs. The Favourite was lush also, but it felt so old fashioned to the point of black and white like Adrian designing for MGM or Edith Head for Paramount. I did not see Black Klansmen or Queen but they seem wonderfully fitting and cohesive to the design. Black Panther was so much part of the film it left an immeasurable amount of impact on me after leaving the theatre. Mary Poppins was of course magical and without the softness of her wool uniforms by Sandy Powell, Blunt’s Poppins would have no softness at all, losing in that race to Julie Andrews, but as Travers would have said “she has the nose for it.” I hope either Powell or Ms. Carter win the statue.
Wow what an amazing opportunity to see all of the renderings. As someone who loves fashion but has no idea how to actually create clothes, I find costumes enthralling and I love looking at them. One thing that’s especially amazing about shows like “Mary Poppins” and “Black Panther”, is that they have such unbelievable budgets that the quality of work, quality of fabric, and nearly unlimited imagination makes these costume other worldly. They are like a dream come true and take you anywhere from London to Wakanda. I love looking at the details of sewing and the VR is a perfect simulation of the real thing. By taking the public to a virtual landscape where they can interact with a virtual rendering of the designs is brilliant. Costumes is arguably one of the most intriguing departments for the general public. By catering to consumers, they have hooked them on this technology by appealing to their facinations with fashion and fabrication.
This year’s films have really brought out some amazing costumes; every time I went to the movie theater, I was thoroughly impressed by the work that you could tell went into all of the designs. Black Panther blew me away from the beginning, and Mary Poppins ended the year by reviving a beloved classic with a beautiful twist on traditional Disney like live-action costuming. I loved seeing the costumes in this article and reading about how much work went into them, from Freddie’s “Live Aid” costume to the Mary Poppin’s storybook illustrated costumes. It’s interesting to read about how a simple tank top and jeans can lead to such a hard journey, in terms of costuming, but I totally get it. On the other hand, the costumes in Mary Poppins, which I assumed took a while, did, in fact, take weeks to make each one. I also thought it was interesting to read that they were painted with watercolors because I definitely never would have guessed that that was the kind of paint they used.
There are so many costumes articles this week and that makes me happy. The one thing I loved about this article were the gifs of the costumes that spinned and zoomed in so you could really see everything. I think that is a super effective way to display a costume and show all the aspects. Honestly, it would be interesting to design a show using 3D renderings like these because no one has really done that before but it does provide a lot of useful information to people about the garment. In traditional designs you only really see one sided of the piece and the other side could be completely different - in which case most people draw another view - but this way you simply make one rendering. It is kind of a bad idea too because I have no idea how to use this software and I don't particularly want to learn because I am comfortable with a paper and some watercolors.
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