The hidden meanings behind the costumes in Greta Gerwig's new 'Little Women' adaptation
From the sinister, suit-clad cast of 2011's Cold War thriller"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," to Emma Watson's ballroom-ready Belle in 2017's"Beauty and the Beast," British designer Jacqueline Durran is no stranger to costuming period films.
Durran's modern sensibility is matched only by her carefully researched designs, bringing to life the 2019 adaptation of the 1868 classic novel. CNN spoke with her in a phone interview from London.Jacqueline Durran: The first thing I do for any project is research the period. For"Little Women" I looked at contemporary photographs and paintings, and at fashion magazines from the time, which were really just books on how to make things and small line drawings of what was fashionable.
It was the same with Meg. I think her actual color was green, but we didn't want her to be just wearing that, so we balanced it with lavender. The costumes have a contemporary feel to them even though they are clearly period pieces -- how did you strike this balance? The March girls struggle with work-life balance, finding love, keeping family, creating a home and trying to be independent in the world."Little Women" still feels relevant today.
But with Timothée, I had a broad range of styles to draw from. I wanted to make him look like a privileged, artistic boy. I had some reference pictures of young boys dressed in velvet suits from the mid-nineteenth-century, and I combined that aesthetic with shapes from boyswear of an earlier decade.
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