The last eight months have been a bit of a whirlwind. All aboard for a whistle-stop tour of my last two terms at Royal Welsh…!
Fairy Tales and Maggie Thatcher
Conceptual Design, RWCMDAlackaday! It’s been far too long – sorry folks, got carried away with Christmas. Anyway, moving swiftly onwards…
My second conceptual costume design project of the course was Sleeping Beauty by Rufus Norris. This version is pretty nuts, featuring a flatulent fairy and a child-eating ogress among others. I was thrilled about designing it though, as I have a thing for the 18th century (as you may have noticed) and this would be the PERFECT opportunity to unleash a bit of period fantasy. Edmund Dulac! Kay Nielsen! PANNIERS!! I immediately pulled together some mood/research boards…
Prince
Ogress
King/Queen/Princess Beauty
King Lear on Mars
Conceptual Design, RWCMDFirst off, apologies for the radio silence these last three weeks. I’ve been up to my eyeballs in my first conceptual costume design project of the year: King Lear.
Results first:
Mad as a Hatter
Costume Construction, RWCMDWeek five was MILLINERY! I was excited for this week – making hats was always something I’d wanted to try, and it would be the first completely new skill I’d learn at RWCMD. The 3rd year BA’s (who did it last year) told us that we’d get to choose three hats to make: one felt, one straw, and one covered. With that in mind I spent the weekend researching Edwardian picture hats – but how on EARTH was I going to choose?!
MA Week 4: Corsetry
Costume Construction, RWCMDI’ll be honest, I was a bit nervous going into corsetry week. Our tutor, Jill Salen, has literally written the book on corsets and as I’d made two before, I feared she (and the rest of the class) were expecting great things.
Fortunately for me, having made corsets before meant I got to choose a corset from another period, so I chose to remake these linen jumps from 1790:
Linen jumps, c. 1790, Hereford Museum
Rebecca Rom 