The Kings Man is finally out!! Loved designing the costumes for this.
Finally on this theme some fitting photos from the Russian ball. We made approximately 50 dresses in the palate that we had decided for this scene. We found around 15 dresses in costumes houses that were also in the correct colours, that helped a bit. Along with the women’s costumes that we made in house the wonderful Hero in Poland made for us many uniforms that we also had to fit. We always need to create extra pieces in advance to fit with as scenes are not cast until near the time of filming and we needed to start the making process much earlier…so maybe 15 dresses were not eventually used…We also made all the headpieces and made and rented the other jewels. We transported all to Turin from London and then fitted the part unfinished costumes (hems etc) to supporting artists and made the necessary alterations and completed. Once fitted we dyed all the shoes and gloves to match the dresses and prepared all the military orders to be worn. It was epic and also so exciting to work with the Makeup and Hair team to see the looks coming together. Thank you to all the British and Italian Costume depts, such great work and attention to detail, you really helped to realise the vision. It takes an army to create these scenes and we are just one department of many…
Finally on this theme some fitting photos from the Russian ball. We made approximately 50 dresses in the palate that we had decided for this scene. We found around 15 dresses in costumes houses that were also in the correct colours, that helped a bit. Along with the women’s costumes that we made in house the wonderful Hero in Poland made for us many uniforms that we also had to fit. We always need to create extra pieces in advance to fit with as scenes are not cast until near the time of filming and we needed to start the making process much earlier…so maybe 15 dresses were not eventually used…We also made all the headpieces and made and rented the other jewels. We transported all to Turin from London and then fitted the part unfinished costumes (hems etc) to supporting artists and made the necessary alterations and completed. Once fitted we dyed all the shoes and gloves to match the dresses and prepared all the military orders to be worn. It was epic and also so exciting to work with the Makeup and Hair team to see the looks coming together. Thank you to all the British and Italian Costume depts, such great work and attention to detail, you really helped to realise the vision. It takes an army to create these scenes and we are just one department of many…
Finally on this theme some fitting photos from the Russian ball. We made approximately 50 dresses in the palate that we had decided for this scene. We found around 15 dresses in costumes houses that were also in the correct colours, that helped a bit. Along with the women’s costumes that we made in house the wonderful Hero in Poland made for us many uniforms that we also had to fit. We always need to create extra pieces in advance to fit with as scenes are not cast until near the time of filming and we needed to start the making process much earlier…so maybe 15 dresses were not eventually used…We also made all the headpieces and made and rented the other jewels. We transported all to Turin from London and then fitted the part unfinished costumes (hems etc) to supporting artists and made the necessary alterations and completed. Once fitted we dyed all the shoes and gloves to match the dresses and prepared all the military orders to be worn. It was epic and also so exciting to work with the Makeup and Hair team to see the looks coming together. Thank you to all the British and Italian Costume depts, such great work and attention to detail, you really helped to realise the vision. It takes an army to create these scenes and we are just one department of many…
Finally on this theme some fitting photos from the Russian ball. We made approximately 50 dresses in the palate that we had decided for this scene. We found around 15 dresses in costumes houses that were also in the correct colours, that helped a bit. Along with the women’s costumes that we made in house the wonderful Hero in Poland made for us many uniforms that we also had to fit. We always need to create extra pieces in advance to fit with as scenes are not cast until near the time of filming and we needed to start the making process much earlier…so maybe 15 dresses were not eventually used…We also made all the headpieces and made and rented the other jewels. We transported all to Turin from London and then fitted the part unfinished costumes (hems etc) to supporting artists and made the necessary alterations and completed. Once fitted we dyed all the shoes and gloves to match the dresses and prepared all the military orders to be worn. It was epic and also so exciting to work with the Makeup and Hair team to see the looks coming together. Thank you to all the British and Italian Costume depts, such great work and attention to detail, you really helped to realise the vision. It takes an army to create these scenes and we are just one department of many…
Finally on this theme some fitting photos from the Russian ball. We made approximately 50 dresses in the palate that we had decided for this scene. We found around 15 dresses in costumes houses that were also in the correct colours, that helped a bit. Along with the women’s costumes that we made in house the wonderful Hero in Poland made for us many uniforms that we also had to fit. We always need to create extra pieces in advance to fit with as scenes are not cast until near the time of filming and we needed to start the making process much earlier…so maybe 15 dresses were not eventually used…We also made all the headpieces and made and rented the other jewels. We transported all to Turin from London and then fitted the part unfinished costumes (hems etc) to supporting artists and made the necessary alterations and completed. Once fitted we dyed all the shoes and gloves to match the dresses and prepared all the military orders to be worn. It was epic and also so exciting to work with the Makeup and Hair team to see the looks coming together. Thank you to all the British and Italian Costume depts, such great work and attention to detail, you really helped to realise the vision. It takes an army to create these scenes and we are just one department of many…
Finally on this theme some fitting photos from the Russian ball. We made approximately 50 dresses in the palate that we had decided for this scene. We found around 15 dresses in costumes houses that were also in the correct colours, that helped a bit. Along with the women’s costumes that we made in house the wonderful Hero in Poland made for us many uniforms that we also had to fit. We always need to create extra pieces in advance to fit with as scenes are not cast until near the time of filming and we needed to start the making process much earlier…so maybe 15 dresses were not eventually used…We also made all the headpieces and made and rented the other jewels. We transported all to Turin from London and then fitted the part unfinished costumes (hems etc) to supporting artists and made the necessary alterations and completed. Once fitted we dyed all the shoes and gloves to match the dresses and prepared all the military orders to be worn. It was epic and also so exciting to work with the Makeup and Hair team to see the looks coming together. Thank you to all the British and Italian Costume depts, such great work and attention to detail, you really helped to realise the vision. It takes an army to create these scenes and we are just one department of many…
Finally on this theme some fitting photos from the Russian ball. We made approximately 50 dresses in the palate that we had decided for this scene. We found around 15 dresses in costumes houses that were also in the correct colours, that helped a bit. Along with the women’s costumes that we made in house the wonderful Hero in Poland made for us many uniforms that we also had to fit. We always need to create extra pieces in advance to fit with as scenes are not cast until near the time of filming and we needed to start the making process much earlier…so maybe 15 dresses were not eventually used…We also made all the headpieces and made and rented the other jewels. We transported all to Turin from London and then fitted the part unfinished costumes (hems etc) to supporting artists and made the necessary alterations and completed. Once fitted we dyed all the shoes and gloves to match the dresses and prepared all the military orders to be worn. It was epic and also so exciting to work with the Makeup and Hair team to see the looks coming together. Thank you to all the British and Italian Costume depts, such great work and attention to detail, you really helped to realise the vision. It takes an army to create these scenes and we are just one department of many…
Finally on this theme some fitting photos from the Russian ball. We made approximately 50 dresses in the palate that we had decided for this scene. We found around 15 dresses in costumes houses that were also in the correct colours, that helped a bit. Along with the women’s costumes that we made in house the wonderful Hero in Poland made for us many uniforms that we also had to fit. We always need to create extra pieces in advance to fit with as scenes are not cast until near the time of filming and we needed to start the making process much earlier…so maybe 15 dresses were not eventually used…We also made all the headpieces and made and rented the other jewels. We transported all to Turin from London and then fitted the part unfinished costumes (hems etc) to supporting artists and made the necessary alterations and completed. Once fitted we dyed all the shoes and gloves to match the dresses and prepared all the military orders to be worn. It was epic and also so exciting to work with the Makeup and Hair team to see the looks coming together. Thank you to all the British and Italian Costume depts, such great work and attention to detail, you really helped to realise the vision. It takes an army to create these scenes and we are just one department of many…
AND finally some of my rushed photos on set, I’m not a photographer that’s for sure! We had a really controlled colour palate for the women’s costumes that I think work beautifully against the wonderful uniforms made for us at Hero in Poland. It takes an army of talented costume crew to make all these costumes, sadly far to many to mention here.. But I must give thanks to my assistant designers Alex Fordham Sophie O’Neill and Emma O’ Loughlin.. AND Clare Spragg costume supervisor extraordinaire for helping to put together both our British and Italian teams ( we filmed this in Turin) phew! @sophie__oneill @emmaolo7891
AND finally some of my rushed photos on set, I’m not a photographer that’s for sure! We had a really controlled colour palate for the women’s costumes that I think work beautifully against the wonderful uniforms made for us at Hero in Poland. It takes an army of talented costume crew to make all these costumes, sadly far to many to mention here.. But I must give thanks to my assistant designers Alex Fordham Sophie O’Neill and Emma O’ Loughlin.. AND Clare Spragg costume supervisor extraordinaire for helping to put together both our British and Italian teams ( we filmed this in Turin) phew! @sophie__oneill @emmaolo7891
AND finally some of my rushed photos on set, I’m not a photographer that’s for sure! We had a really controlled colour palate for the women’s costumes that I think work beautifully against the wonderful uniforms made for us at Hero in Poland. It takes an army of talented costume crew to make all these costumes, sadly far to many to mention here.. But I must give thanks to my assistant designers Alex Fordham Sophie O’Neill and Emma O’ Loughlin.. AND Clare Spragg costume supervisor extraordinaire for helping to put together both our British and Italian teams ( we filmed this in Turin) phew! @sophie__oneill @emmaolo7891
AND finally some of my rushed photos on set, I’m not a photographer that’s for sure! We had a really controlled colour palate for the women’s costumes that I think work beautifully against the wonderful uniforms made for us at Hero in Poland. It takes an army of talented costume crew to make all these costumes, sadly far to many to mention here.. But I must give thanks to my assistant designers Alex Fordham Sophie O’Neill and Emma O’ Loughlin.. AND Clare Spragg costume supervisor extraordinaire for helping to put together both our British and Italian teams ( we filmed this in Turin) phew! @sophie__oneill @emmaolo7891
AND finally some of my rushed photos on set, I’m not a photographer that’s for sure! We had a really controlled colour palate for the women’s costumes that I think work beautifully against the wonderful uniforms made for us at Hero in Poland. It takes an army of talented costume crew to make all these costumes, sadly far to many to mention here.. But I must give thanks to my assistant designers Alex Fordham Sophie O’Neill and Emma O’ Loughlin.. AND Clare Spragg costume supervisor extraordinaire for helping to put together both our British and Italian teams ( we filmed this in Turin) phew! @sophie__oneill @emmaolo7891
More drawings from The Kings Man. This time with the help of Simon Thorpe my illustrator on this film. I worked here with Simon to develop a ‘look’ for the female extras in the ball scene. I needed to find a solution that the Director was happy with and that I felt still reflected the idea of a dress ball in Russia..At these times it’s really important for all concerned to really be able to visualise the finished look and often the studio will need to sign off on these but not on this film, it’s all Matthew V. For this my costume sketches whilst informative to the people that make the costumes are not so accessible outside of our department. Anyway I though it would be interesting to share here for those that are not in the film industry how things work. The first photo is where we arrived and it was approved, the last is where we started.. sorry back to front! Thank you Simon you genius! See more of his work here @sim0ndo
More drawings from The Kings Man. This time with the help of Simon Thorpe my illustrator on this film. I worked here with Simon to develop a ‘look’ for the female extras in the ball scene. I needed to find a solution that the Director was happy with and that I felt still reflected the idea of a dress ball in Russia..At these times it’s really important for all concerned to really be able to visualise the finished look and often the studio will need to sign off on these but not on this film, it’s all Matthew V. For this my costume sketches whilst informative to the people that make the costumes are not so accessible outside of our department. Anyway I though it would be interesting to share here for those that are not in the film industry how things work. The first photo is where we arrived and it was approved, the last is where we started.. sorry back to front! Thank you Simon you genius! See more of his work here @sim0ndo
More drawings from The Kings Man. This time with the help of Simon Thorpe my illustrator on this film. I worked here with Simon to develop a ‘look’ for the female extras in the ball scene. I needed to find a solution that the Director was happy with and that I felt still reflected the idea of a dress ball in Russia..At these times it’s really important for all concerned to really be able to visualise the finished look and often the studio will need to sign off on these but not on this film, it’s all Matthew V. For this my costume sketches whilst informative to the people that make the costumes are not so accessible outside of our department. Anyway I though it would be interesting to share here for those that are not in the film industry how things work. The first photo is where we arrived and it was approved, the last is where we started.. sorry back to front! Thank you Simon you genius! See more of his work here @sim0ndo
Just found my sketches for the previous post! The wonderful boots were created by Jeff @jitterbug.boy the shawls were from my personal collection, I think the corsets were from our workroom and gloves I imagine would be the wonderful Pamela wood…
Just found my sketches for the previous post! The wonderful boots were created by Jeff @jitterbug.boy the shawls were from my personal collection, I think the corsets were from our workroom and gloves I imagine would be the wonderful Pamela wood…
Just found my sketches for the previous post! The wonderful boots were created by Jeff @jitterbug.boy the shawls were from my personal collection, I think the corsets were from our workroom and gloves I imagine would be the wonderful Pamela wood…
The Kings Man Costumes Conrad arriving at Sandhurst. This costume was inspired in particular by the ref here..and it developed as we began to make it. I decided to use a beautiful oxblood red oiled and textured fabric that our buyer the amazing Klaire found. I felt the colour in a way foretold of the horror to come. We designed and had the fabric for his hat woven especially using the colours of Kingsman. His glasses were created for us by @cutlerandgross based on an original pair that we found. We also decided he would wear his officers trousers tucked into socks and boots that were created as per our design by Jeff @ jitterbug.boy. We had to double all elements of this costume for stunts and an extra set for Conrad in case of accident. Illustrator Simon Thorpe @simOndo
The Kings Man Costumes Conrad arriving at Sandhurst. This costume was inspired in particular by the ref here..and it developed as we began to make it. I decided to use a beautiful oxblood red oiled and textured fabric that our buyer the amazing Klaire found. I felt the colour in a way foretold of the horror to come. We designed and had the fabric for his hat woven especially using the colours of Kingsman. His glasses were created for us by @cutlerandgross based on an original pair that we found. We also decided he would wear his officers trousers tucked into socks and boots that were created as per our design by Jeff @ jitterbug.boy. We had to double all elements of this costume for stunts and an extra set for Conrad in case of accident. Illustrator Simon Thorpe @simOndo
The Kings Man Costumes Conrad arriving at Sandhurst. This costume was inspired in particular by the ref here..and it developed as we began to make it. I decided to use a beautiful oxblood red oiled and textured fabric that our buyer the amazing Klaire found. I felt the colour in a way foretold of the horror to come. We designed and had the fabric for his hat woven especially using the colours of Kingsman. His glasses were created for us by @cutlerandgross based on an original pair that we found. We also decided he would wear his officers trousers tucked into socks and boots that were created as per our design by Jeff @ jitterbug.boy. We had to double all elements of this costume for stunts and an extra set for Conrad in case of accident. Illustrator Simon Thorpe @simOndo
The Kings Man Costumes Conrad arriving at Sandhurst. This costume was inspired in particular by the ref here..and it developed as we began to make it. I decided to use a beautiful oxblood red oiled and textured fabric that our buyer the amazing Klaire found. I felt the colour in a way foretold of the horror to come. We designed and had the fabric for his hat woven especially using the colours of Kingsman. His glasses were created for us by @cutlerandgross based on an original pair that we found. We also decided he would wear his officers trousers tucked into socks and boots that were created as per our design by Jeff @ jitterbug.boy. We had to double all elements of this costume for stunts and an extra set for Conrad in case of accident. Illustrator Simon Thorpe @simOndo
