screenrant.com: Here's how Elizabeth Olsen helped design WandaVision's new Scarlet Witch costume. WandaVision was Marvel's first television series on Disney+ and quickly became a massive hit with critics and fans alike. The story centered on Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) coming to terms over losing Vision (Paul Bettany) and fully accepting her role as the legendary Scarlet Witch.
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I really love Scarlet Witch's new costume, much more than the old one. This one feels just so much more like her, there's so much personality, and it makes me even happier with that Elizabeth Olsen had a part in it. She really brings this character life so I will be disappointed if she didn't have a say in what she would be wearing. I also like that the red is a little bit purpleish, because she gained it by defeating Agatha and taking her power. However, I am disappointed this article did not credit the costume designer of the show. It quotes and mentions the director, but not the one doing the actual work to suit the costume to Olsen's needs. I even would say that the costume designer should be credited within the title of the article. I think designers are often given the short end of the stick when it comes to these things, and I wish sites like this would give them more credit for the work that they do, and not the actors for their requests.
I agree with Jem, this article didn’t honor the costume designer and I wish there was more insight to the design process. I always like seeing design sketches. I was also disappointed that Elizabeth Olsen didn’t really decide how it was going to look, she just told them she couldn’t move in it so they redesigned it. That title was kinda misleading. Im just glad that it is practical. It would be a terrible show if a superhero was restricted due to clothing choice. Despite my criticism of the article itself, I loved how the costume turned out! I’m glad it doesn’t look like a booby bathing suit like the old comics (although I do think Olsen would rock thigh high red boots). The costume feels really felt empowering, like it was supposed to be as it symbolizes her taking control of her life.
I agree with both Rhiannon and Jem, this article didn't really talk much about the costume designer or the design process. It focuses mostly on Elizabeth Olsen, who didn't really contribute much to the design process. I feel like the article was trying to capitalize off of Elizabeth Olsen to gain more views. I really enjoyed the costumes in Wandavision, the way they managed to capture each era as well as the more fantastical elements. I agree with Rhiannon, I love seeing sketches and reading about the design processes behind costumes and I thought this article was really lacking with that aspect. I just wish that this article had given more credit to the fantastic costume designer and the rest of the wardrobe team who probably spend so much time carefully designing, creating, and finding the costumes. I wish the article had given credit to all of the people who were involved with the costume process, but it didn't even mention the designer.
I adore the new Scarlet Witch costume and the obvious homage that it pays to the original comic book costume. Because of that I went into this article with really high hopes for insight into the designing and inspirations and conversations surrounding the creation of such an iconic look. However I left with the same impressions as Kaisa, Rhiannon, and Jem. Even the seemingly important or impressive contributions that Elizabeth Olsen lent to the creation process seemed to be skimmed over, and overall the article was very disappointing for me. I wish that the designer and the obvious effort that went into the costume was talked about. or even really mentioned. The costumes in the whole show are simply astounding, so hearing from the designer on this topic alone would have been so interesting. I do think it is fun when actors and designers work together on costumes and knowing the complicated nature of "superhero costumes" and knowing marvel as a brand, getting some insight into how Elizabeth Olsen and the designer would have worked together would have improved the article ten fold.
I thought this article was kind of interesting. I thought there would be more from the costume designer on the show so it was disappointing to not hear from her. I think Mayes C Rubeo had a large task on this show. She not only had to represent a whole city through 7 different decades but also create 2 iconic marvel costumes. I believe Vison’s costume was already established from the previous movies but this television series gave the opportunity to revision the Scarlet Witch as well as introduce Agatha Harkness. I really like the scarlet witch costume and thought it was very classy but also had the badass element. The only hiccup was her hair. I don't know why but the hair just doesn't seem right. I can't really tell if its trying to be beach waves or the wet hair look. Idk i think she would have looked better with a good blowout.
Wandavision was a visual masterpiece, and most of that is thanks to the way that characters looked. Because the show jumps to a different time period every episode, it is super important that all of the characters are both accurate to their decade as well as consistent to themselves. Wanda Maximoff, being the main character, is especially important to have a coherent set of costumes while also appearing to fit in with her era. On top of those two things, she is also based on a comic book character, so it has to be true to the way Wanda is originally drawn. Elizabeth Olsen, having played this character for many years, probably knows her best so I am glad that she got such big input into the wardrobe. The fact that Olsen also needed to move and do fight scenes in the shots, and the fact that she mentioned this to the designers, really ads to what she should look and feel like in the show.
I really don’t like ScreenRant as a publication. Mainly because they pay a lot of money for sponsored Facebook post with clickbait titles that never offer much substance and are usually based on like one line of dialogue. Especially when there are creators doing much better work. Once again, they were able to generate a whole blog post out of six sentence quote and give me one ad per each sentence of that quote. That being said, this article wasn’t as heinous as they usually are. I actually learnt something new about how Elizabeth Olsen influenced the design. I was a little concerned reading the headline because I know in the past, there has been concern from Olsen and others over how ridiculous the corset element of her costume has been. She really has had some of the most ridiculous cleavage. I’ve been watching Bernadette Banner, a dress historian on YouTube who has been fighting the notion that corsets are painful and only exist for the male gaze. She’s convinced me. I know that sometimes the corsets are practical, but they can be. Afterall, their initial purpose was as an underlayer support garment.
I found this article more disappointing than anything. Obviously, I love that the designer and actor worked together to create the costume- I did that a lot in creating sound design in high school and found it to be so much more inspirational and meaningful than when I didn’t. I hope that I can continue to do that in the professional world- however, I know that there likely wouldn’t be an article about Wanda’s costume if Elizabeth Olsen hadn’t gotten a say in it. Almost all talk surrounding theatre revolves around the actors, which is understandable because they are who we get to see, but is something we should change. I don’t see why designers can’t also be interviewed the way that actors are. The work we do is just as interesting, if not more, and so many designers have great personalities and would be fun to watch on camera. I think people believe that only actors are fun to watch, but that’s not true. Even more disheartening, like Jem said, is the fact that the costume designer wasn’t even mentioned. This just proves my earlier statements that people do not care about the designers. It’s a sad reality and I hope and expect it to change in the future.
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