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All Souls Trilogy Costume Research & Development by Sharon Ali sharon@sharonali.com Slide 2 Something Wicked This Way Comes [the Scottish Play W. Shakespeare] Slide 3 My Thoughts on the importance of capturing preliminary unspoiled ideas: -Sharon Ali Slide 4 Mere colour Unspoiled by meaning & Unallied with definite form. Can Speak to the Soul In a thousand Different ways -Oscar Wilde Slide 5 Concept Development Slide 6 Concept begins with an idea of how to string together multiple components. The order of things. [origins] Slide 7 Something has to come first. Grabbing a thread Tying the First Knot. Slide 8 And so it begins Slide 9 the first knot Part 1 Research for fashion collection inspired by the personalities of All Souls Trilogy characters. Matthew Diana-Ysabeau-Phillip [sketches coming soon] Slide 10 A Time Study of the History of Jackets 14 th Century 16 th Century 19 th Century 21 st Century Slide 11 History of Modern Jackets c 1950 Modern Jackets [ motor cycle jackets] share common ancestry with protective outer wear of the Alpha Male.[ Race Car / Motorcycle drivers in the 1940s / 1950s. Slide 12 Slide 13 History of Jackets 1500s Elizabethan Fencing Doublet Motorcycle or racer jackets are based on doublet cuts of the 1500s Slide 14 Metropolitan Museum New York Elizabethan Doublets were based on the protective armour of knights [1300s] Slide 15 Slide 16 All Souls Trilogy 2 nd knot Part 2 Costumes and character research Slide 17 Slide 18 Slide 19 Slide 20 Hard Book Case Slide 21 Slide 22 Ring Compass Slide 23 Time Pieces Through the ages Slide 24 Ice Block Telescope Slide 25 Juliette Durands Bedroom fire place a little off kilter Slide 26 Ysabeau Pocket Telescope? Slide 27 Ysabeau If she had a laptop maybe it would look like this. Somehow both analog and digital Slide 28 Telescopes See into other worlds and places so far away it is in another time. Slide 29 3 rd Knot Character Studies Illustrations Capturing Mood of Character through Body Language Slide 30 Ysabeau In Hunting Attire Taking Diana to the woods..she stalks her prey. Slide 31 Satus Engraving Aged blood [dried on Dianas clothes. Blood should look like it is a fiber woven into fabric A visual foreshadowing of Diana being a weaver Slide 32 Diana in the Garden A vulnerable moment The moment before Satu picks her like a flower from the Garden of Sept Tours Slide 33 Satu As she descends gracefully and skillfully at Giberts Castle Slide 34 Matthew At the Bodlian on Mabon Just before they met. Mathew leans against a column casually observing his prey unaware that the predator is about to be smitten Slide 35 Diana A broken Diana looks across the Obelisque confronting its ghosts and her own. Slide 36 Matthew & Baldwin The moment Baldwin arrives at Sept Tours and finds out Matthew has taken up with a witch. Slide 37 4 th Knot Part 4 Period Research Plates Slide 38 Louisa New Orleans Slide 39 Ysabeau Slide 40 Slide 41 Accessories [ Louisa] 19 th Century Slide 42 Elizabethan Doublet Details