What I love so much about your Christine wardrobe is the cohesion and continuity. Because it is so rare for a Christine to have an entire set built we are always getting Bjornson's design, but the production-specific costumer's own particular tastes and preferences are usually diluted. You have such a specific aesthetic within the original design concept (so much GOLD! YES!) and it really shines through when you see your entire Christine Wardrobe as a collection. Beautiful work.
And one more thing- I realized that the reason I love your tendency towards gold is because onstage it would tie in so well with the set design. All that gold (in the rooftop dress especially) would beautifully compliment the proscenium and I adore costumes that subtly integrate the environment. It creates such beautiful stage pictures.
This one has been sitting in my inbox for some time because I think it’s so hard to give good replies to such generous, kind messages. I don’t know where to start, or what to say. But I go back and read it a couple of times to try and find the right words.
Let me just say THANKS A THOUSAND TIMES for your incredibly kind words. I’m kinda floored that you see what you see. Because this is really something I’ve tried to achieve - creating replicas that reflects Maria Bjørnson’s design, but yet replicas that makes the best out of the materials available. And from that I guess a specific style emerges, a gold/bling heavy style for sure, but also one reflecting my body shape, I guess. When I made a collage of all the costumes yesterday I saw that I have a dendency to repeat specific things:
A very small and defined V-shaped basque/bodice front, for example. A generous neckline. Layers upon layers. Some things are of course dictated by the design, but the specific execution of it have similarities in my work.
The comment on gold is a very interesting one. I hadn’t thought about how the gold kinda communicates with the proscenium, but that totally makes sense. I’ve always had a preference for a hint of gold, even in the more silver dominated Star Princess. I snuck in a bit in the ruffled neckline:
These are things I don’t necessarily think about when making costumes. Therefore it was really interesting and almost spooky to read how you perceive the costume work and detailes you’ve noticed. It was an eye opener, in a very good way. So again, thank you SO much for your message, your kind words and your insights. It’s words that’ll ring in the back of my head for future costume projects!
