In 2016, the first "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) costume look won the 89th Academy Awards. This is the fourth Oscar for designer Colleen Atwood. Do you remember the flowery clothes this talented master designed for Chicago, Memoirs of Geisha, and Alice in Wonderland?
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is in theaters. Compared with the "Harry Potter" series, the box office is not outstanding, and the plot even caused various complaints from HP fans on the Internet. But the costume design in the movie still maintains a high standard. The second home is set in Paris, so let's take a good look at Colleen Atwood's French fashion from the 1920s to the 1930s.
Colleen Atwood referenced many of Man Ray and Brassaï's photography in Fantastic Beasts 2's costume design, trying to accurately reflect the cutting-edge Parisian fashion of the time. Madeleine Vionnet, the queen of bias cuts, is her inspiration. Colleen was also inspired by the use of light and shadow in the 1940s noir The Third Man. JK sometimes uses some remarks to tell the designers the scene in her mind, in order to make the movie picture closer to the author's original idea.
We all love Newt Scamander's peacock blue coat in Part 1. In the first part, Newt helped the US Ministry of Magic MACUSA capture Grindelwald. In the second part, he published a book on the research of magical animals, and his social status has been improved to a certain extent, so he put on a gray coat made of good fabrics, which is more urbanized and more calm. Atwood said in an interview: "I originally found an old dress that was exactly the style I wanted; luckily, the workshop managed to replicate that style for me."
Looking closely, the designer added some blue dots to the fabric of this jacket, evoking our memories of the blue jacket from the first.
Newt still retains the patchwork vest from the first installment. The ginger yellow on the front has a brightening effect on the overall shape. Atwood will properly keep some objects from the previous film, so that we can't help but recall the previous story.
Once Newt's world was just him and his magical animals. A trip to New York changed him. How much he missed Tina, how eager to find Tina.
As early as 2007, JK Rowling revealed that Dumbledore is gay, and in "Fantastic Beasts", his relationship with Grindelwald was set as "closer than a brother". Young Albus Dumbledore is played by Judy Law. This version of Dumbledore is different from Harry Potter's purple-loving, hooded, robe-clad, eccentric and mysterious Headmaster Dumbledore. Judy portrays Dumbledore as an energetic middle-aged teacher with a witty talk and a mischievous gleam in his eyes, approachable and beloved by his students. Atwood expressed this glamour with a soft grey-toned wool three-piece, a more Muggle-inspired look. That unique corduroy coat in the fog attracts countless powders!
Grindelwald, played by Johnny Depp, is Colleen's most collaborative actor. In Colleen's eyes, Uncle Depp looks good in everything. The style here is a bolder attempt to design a design different from his previous style, which is novel and strange but will be super stunning. You wouldn't think Colleen's designs were inspired by Alpine clothing: leather shorts transformed into long skinny high-waisted trousers (with intricate embroidery on the trouser pockets), boots, high-waisted jackets. This is the Alpine rock star that Atwood imagined. In the movie, Depp's hair has been thinned and dyed, which is quite capable and individual, and it feels bad. Overall it fits Grindelwald's persuasive, inflammatory and dangerous persona. Atwood was not very clear about the image standard of Grindelwald at first, so he made several sets of Depp clothes for director David Yates to see, all of them are hand-stitched antique designs, which is enough to fight!
Professional woman Tina Goldstein has always taken the simple style. As a person with good intuition and great potential as a wizard, she has always been eager to be appreciated by more people. Tina wore a dark navy blue leather trench coat in Paris for a bit of menswear. For Katherine Waterston, who is tall and skinny, it's not a problem to manage such a trench coat. A clean and refreshing white shirt is worn inside. Unlike the first white shirt with cotton and linen texture, this one has a smoother and more drapey fabric, and has a more unique front design. The hairstyle is cut short and straight, which is more capable. How confident and powerful is Tina dressed so neatly in a male-dominated Auror.
Ezra Miller is one of the few young actors who is super talented. He himself loves costumes, playing Credence Barebone in the play. Credence is lonely in the first part and doesn't know who he is. His personality is like the second child in the family, always hoping to do everything well; always expecting the outside world to see him as a young, aspiring wizard.
In order to show Credence's sensitivity and vulnerability, his clothing is dominated by waistcoats. In the second part, Credence hides in a circus in France. At this time, he has a friend Nagini who depends on each other, and the truth of his life experience gradually surfaced. He stopped wearing weird hairstyles and started wearing warmer clothes. Credence is a very lovable character. He's not afraid to show who he really is, and he's honest with the world. Of course Atwood still uses some black elements to emphasize the character's past. Even characters as extreme as Credence change over time; of course, no matter how they change, there is always something that remains. Atwood loved Credence: he was a tormented soul, a victim; his experience was different from others. Atwood as an artist resonates easily with characters like that, including Newt's, which is a little bit of an outsider. The biggest twist at the end of the second show is when Grindelwald tells Credence that he is Aurelius, a member of the Dumbledore family.
I really want a 1920s dress from the first Queenie, innocent and naive.
When Atwood asked Alison, who played Queenie, what she would like to wear back, Alison replied: I would like to wear a tweed plaid. It just so happens that Colleen has an antique dress from Germany that happens to be plaid (but not Scottish plaid). Colleen printed and dyed the fabric according to the dress's check pattern to make the dress that Alison wore in Part 2. The pink jacket pays homage to the last Queenie look.
However, the overall design is different from the Flapper girl set in the first part, including a moth brooch on the chest, heralding Queenie's transformation. In the second part, she was so lonely and helpless on the streets of Paris in the rain that she escaped the shelter of her sister, as if she was betrayed and abandoned by everyone. At the end of the play, Queenie voluntarily joins the Grindelwald camp, which may be the only choice she has in a powerless world.
Zoe Kravitz plays Leta Lestrange in a different style than Helena Bonham Carter's Bellatrix Lestrange is dark, gothic. Leta Lestrange in Colleen's eyes is a manor lady, a pure-blood wizard, and an aristocrat in the wizarding class. So a deep purple dress that blends styles from the late 1920s to the 1930s is most suitable for her born noble but low-key temperament. In order to add a little wizard temperament, Colleen specially decorated the back with a very obvious shawl.
Another super-chic representative on the show is Grindelrald's right-hand man Rosier, played by actor Poppy Corby-Tuech. Green skirts, pointed hats, and coats give an air of Alpine forest witches.
Jacob Kowalski's setting is a bit similar to Sherlock and Watson, both trying to bring the friend who lives in his own world and derails from society back to real life and integrates into society. Jacob is the representative of ordinary human beings, too mild and lacking self-confidence. Yet his bravery and tenacity in times of crisis won not only Queenie's heart but also the admiration and sympathy of Theseus Scamander. He was the first Muggle to see the true face of Hogwarts. His outfit is a standard dark gray three-piece suit with a brown coat; his chubby body wears a super-short vest, and he has a cute look.
Hogwarts uniforms have some interesting twists while following the classic. During Newt's school days, Hogwarts uniforms were modeled after medieval-style robes, with a relatively old-school design. The sleeves are more exaggerated, the hem is trimmed with velvet, and the hood is a typical preppy style. The representative colors and badge designs of each college have been retained.
While researching French style, Atwood found some interesting things: such as "good morning dresses" on old-school gentlemen, with very neat and clean matching. Although there are very few women in the French Ministry of Magic, the few of them are very beautiful and stylish. For Ministry of Magic clothing, Atwood categorizes them by country, for example, Aurors in the US Ministry of Magic wear grey leather jackets, and the British Ministry of Magic wears woolen jackets.
The costumes of the extras in the film were borrowed from costume houses in Britain, Italy, Spain, the United States and other countries. There are nearly 3,000 costumes in total. These clothes will be used many times in the film, but the way of matching is changed.
The circus in the play takes place at night, more like a carnival, or a sideshow, or a freak show. There are such circuses in French history. Therefore, in this circus costume design, we refer to a lot of French circus and French freak show materials, which is a more realistic design.
The movie costumes are designed to emphasize the plot changes and enhance the characters' images, and at the same time let you and I have more reference and inspiration in dressing. What a wonderful feeling! In addition to bravely experimenting with Vintage, you can mix and match modern chic like the Harajuku hipsters. Of course, don't make it easy to dress yourself up as Halloween makeup or cosplay!
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