Rodarte's Costumes for "Black Swan"

[Unknownpleasures]

The trailer looks intense,the poster scary.I'd like to have a very detailed view from all the garments,though.Intersting..

 

[girlalamode]

This film looks very exciting, the costumes - stunning!

 

[BLUECHIP]

the film looks so good
very rodarte

 

[Feline]

I am a huge fan of the ballet and looking forward to seeing the film. I love ballet costumes anyway, and these look very special.

 

[lucy92]

At most big-ticket movie premieres, what the stars wear on the red carpet is the main attraction. In the case of Black Swan, the roll-call outfits at the New York premiere this week were no slouch—Dior, Elie Saab, Givenchy, and Naeem Khan among them—but the most excitement may have been caused by the frocks on screen. That’s what you get when you hire Rodarte’s Kate and Laura Mulleavy to design a working wardrobe for your ballet fantasia-cum-horror epic. Here, the sisters share two of their sketches for the film’s costumes—the main characters of Odette as the maiden and of Odile as the demonic Black Swan—exclusively with Style.com.

“If I had imagined a dream film, this is definitely the one to sign us up for,” Laura said. “The big question was, how can you create a whole Swan Lake ballet to coincide with the modern set of this film?” But that wasn’t the only big question—the other was one few designers encounter: How can you make clothes that are ballet-friendly? “It was very technical, because everyone had to be able to dance,” Kate added. “For example, the crown—the demon Rothbart has a metal crown that’s made with horns, and the Black Swan has a metal crown in chrome. That was a big debate, whether they could wear them as dancers.”

But necessity was the mother of invention. The crowns made it into the film, where they’re chillingly dramatic in its final scenes—but chrome they’re not. The Mulleavys ended up making the Black Swan crown out of lightweight copper, which they then burned to achieve their desired effect. “The crown is so coveted because it is symbolic of getting the role of the Swan Queen in Swan Lake—it’s part of this whole thing of getting the role. When it was time to do the Black Swan, that more intensely had to be linked to this demonic, menacing idea, [so] using metal became more important,” said Laura (on set with Portman, below). “Technically it was almost impossible, but we made it work.”

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[softgrey]

err...is it just me...or does this movie look really bad...???
.........

and anyway..
wouldn't we all love to see the Comme des Garcons version of a twisted ballerina?!?...
i don't know...
i want to be excited...but it's just not happening for me...

 

[Littleathquakes]

^ yes it looks painful to watch.

i don't get the hype re: the costumes. They could've just borrowed McQueen's F/W 08 collection. while these don't look like the typical ballerina costumes, they're not exactly avant garde either, considering it's a twist on the swan story, you'd expect the costumes to veer further away from the norm as well.

 

[eternitygoddess]

The gala dress that Nina wore was just gorrrrrrrgeous.

 

[lucy92]

i saw the movie. the movie is a cross between "the piano teacher" and "the red shoes". many people will think its a ripoff of the "the piano teacher".

the long gown that natalie portman's character wore to the gala was draw droppingly beautiful though.

 

[LoraV]

oooh really?? I've seen the trailer back before and still didnt have the chance to see the movie. Can't wait to see it!

 

[eugenius]

I thought the movie was excellent, but nothing particularly noteworthy about Rodarte's costumes. Seems like the costumes could've been made by anybody in the costume department of any big-budget movie studio, IMO.

Great music, though.

 

[whatkatjadid]

I'm really excited to see the male dancer's "mechanical bird"-esque costume they talk about here.

 

[dancing_supastar]

The costumes look beautiful. I really hope this movie comes to my movie theatre! I'm still waiting!

 

[mint condish]

The gala dress that Nina wore was just gorrrrrrrgeous.

I agree! Can't wait until pictures of it are released somewhere.

 

[marjanthelion]

me too

 

[Mia S-M]

can't wait !

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[marjanthelion]

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[marjanthelion]

same

 

[marjanthelion]

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[marjanthelion]

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