Woodhorn Museum, Costume Exhibition…

As for my final major project, in order to collect further research I visited the Woodhorn Museums temporary Costume Exhibition (Dressing the Stars). The exhibition showed some exquisite costume pieces, from costumes designers such as Sandy Powell (Shakespeare in love and The young Victoria), Penny Rose (Pirates of the Caribbean), Jenny Beavan (Sense and Sensibility and Room with a view), Michael O’Connor (The Duchess) and Alexandra Byrne (Elizabeth).

My favourite costume of the whole exhibit has to be Sandy Powell’s costume for Shakespeare in love, worn by Judi Dench.

I researched this specific costume after visiting the museum and found out that this costume was only worn by Dame Judi Dench in scenes when she was sitting down, assuming that it is so heavy that she was unable to walk in the garment. But aside from the fact that the costume reduces the actors movement, I thought it was truly amazing, the colours and embellishment made the piece so dramatic and the viewer could identify the work put into the garment. Superb!

Here are photos of the other fantastic costumes:

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Study Visit, Berlin…

After finishing the Creative Destruction project the class went to Berlin for the benefit of the next project which was to be Bauhaus. There were some amazing art galleries, which were very inspirational and helped me greatly to begin thinking of ideas for the Bauhaus project.

The photos were taken in the Hamburger Bahnhoff Museum.