Hello every one of you dolls :)
Have you seen the Oscars recently? Adding the word recently to that sentence makes it float through my head in a British accent :3 If you answered yes to this question, you are automatically a fantastical and amazing person :)I've just mildly come back to reality after living in a world of movies and I'm not quite sure if I'm ready to be back. I did really want to make a post about the costume design Oscar though, because I'm mildly compulsively obsessed with it in a completely (non) healthy fashion :) I psycho-person anylaze these costumes every year and this year, I kind of want to cry because I didn't believe that The Great Gatsby would receive it's much deserved award for best costume design and therefore put my guess in American hustle........why am I a idiot who puts their oscar guesses in the hands of rotten tomatoes.com?
never again, I say, never. again.
anyways, let us beginnnnn :)
THE GREAT GATSBY
EVERYTHING ABOUT THESE DESIGNS ARE FANTASTIC.
I was going to get movie stills, but I personally really adore the raw-esque look to the original sketches :)
The 20's are one of my most adored era's in fashion and I love how it's shown in movies :) The Great Gatsby did such a amazing job at showing the golden age of the twenties through the metallic fabrics and fancy fringes and beading :) I LOVE THOSE HEADBANDS. so much. please tell me someone else reading this wants a feathery beaded 20's headband :3 Looking at those costumes is like entering a dreamier world of green lights and hope and I'm obsessed with it :) I feel so bad for not believing in her all along, but she completely deserved to win. I am in eternal respect for the academy for this :)
AMERICAN HUSTLE
This is the movie I thought would win, but the costume design in this movie is completely spectacular too :) I love the low cut necklines and slitted dresses so much! They're delicately bordering this invisible line of being inappropriate and/or sleazy and being a insanely genius example of luxury New York City in the 70's . The guy's costumes weren't that amazing, but the girl's costumes completely made up for this :) They were daring and gorgeous and different then anything else that's ever been done :)This movie is at the very beary tippy top of movies I wish to see in a time near me :)
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
Oh the Victorian-ness of it all :3 I am. OBSESSED. with Victorian times and the costumes in this movie were so perfectly Victorian. I love how a few modern exaggerations got mixed into these designs :) I now require one of those bonnets. now. give it to me. These designs remind me so very much of a Christmas carol and even though I truly hate that Christmas movie because it mentally depresses me and only like the mickey mouse-ified version of it, I love the costume design. In the mickey mouse version, He had this huge beautiful canopy bed and I want nothing more then to one day possess that bed.
12 YEARS A SLAVE
I really love the costume design in this too, but it's slightly over-simple and doesn't show tons of contrast in the designs from before they were slaves and after they were slaves. It has bonnets with bows though and it's accordingly amazing :)
THE GRANDMASTER
No one will ever know how glad I am this never won. The costume design was decent-ish, but they never really did anything new and special with any of their designs. It just sort of feels like the same exact thing that you've seen in every movie where there is Chinese based designs. I actually feel like this costume design could have been kind of spectacular if they hadn't just done what everyone else in the entire existing world would be able to imagine. The point of costume design is to show you a new and strange way to see things, not to show you what you already know. and now that my rants over, I shall back away slowly.
Thank you so much for reading and type your Oscar based thought processes and general thoughts on life and cute animals below :)
Ta Ta for now now
Kat
