Alton Telegraph: Dangling button earrings sway with Suzanne Breaux as she flips through binders of costume sketches — full of bell skirts and corset tops, embellished sleeves and dramatic collars.
From floor to ceiling her shop is filled with sequins, yards of eccentric fabrics, hulking decorative tunics and bouffant-style skirts.
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I am a little ashamed of saying that I completely forgot about the massive event that is Mardi Gras (almost) every year, specifically just how many people are working to put this together behind the scenes. I thought it was really interesting to take a small peek at what the process looks like. I found it most surprising how all the fittings happen in muslin only. I don’t know much about costume construction, but I do know that muslin is pretty much the base only, so the person constructing them must have a lot of trust in their skills to pull that off. I also found very impressive the number of garments produced. One hundred and twenty is a massive number, especially given the limit of time and the vast variety in styles and details involved in each one. I loved finding the similarities in the work that goes into finding the right materials, to finding things such as props around.
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