Variety: Costume designer Trish Summerville, who has previously worked with David Fincher on “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and “Gone Girl,” says she was very excited when she learned the director wanted to do a full project in black-and-white. The only time she had ever tackled crafting costumes was in flashback sequences, not a full-length feature. And who better to do it with than Fincher?
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Black and white films can seem almost completely foreign to a modern audience, that we really don't stop and think about how you would approach designing differently for an environment that will ultimately end up in greyscale. In the article, the costume designer talked about working closely with the director for the whole production, but especially when discussing how the film and shots would be lit. Since greyscale contrast is the only 'color' differentiation the designers would have to work with, you could drastically alter the perception of the actors and costumes depending on where lights were placed and what time of day the scene was supposed to be. It would be interesting to do hands on screen tests with different colors and fabrics, to see how well different colors or textures would play in black and white, and how the handling of the environment would affect the outcome as well.
I still need to watch this movie! This is like my 3rd time commenting on an article about the costumes in this film. They seem to be very well done. But like in other articles it still seems like the variety of tones are not really apparent. When I have watched black and white films, you see the whitest white and the blacked black in the same pictures. All of the stills from this film seem to be grey. I think it might be due to the lighting, but i'm not sure. I also find it interesting that the costume renderings are so detailed. I think this is really a film thing and the costume designer themselves is not doing the renderings unlike theatre. But i just sometimes confused that they need such a detailed hyper realistic rendering, even though the rendering is really a jumping point and much more developments can be made with the costume makers.- Evan Riley
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