Vampire Fashion in Film: Exploring a Century of Costume Design
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- Опубліковано 24 лют 2024
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Velkom to ze channel... today we deep-dive vampire costume design!
Very proud of this one and hope you enjoy it - share your thoughts, stick around etc (-:
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i think of this every time klimt is credited as a reference in fashion so I just want to add that many of the garments in his paintings are based on real clothes made by the designer Emilie Floge, and you can see what they looked like in photos and in surviving museum pieces (and in his paintings of her). i think she deserves some of the credit that he gets :)
i LUVVV when production puts half their budget into costuming and the designers put their whole vampussy into it!!!
agreee! ford coppilas vampussy is on fire
I so dearly miss glampire movies like Bram Stoker's Dracula and Interview with the Vampire. They don't make movies like that anymore.
right!! i love all of the luxury but i feel like there’s no trend for over the top costuming across cinema at the moment - it’s all much more minimal. Bring back the glamps 🥲
AMC is doing the Rice vampires even now.
@@rachellydiabInterview with the Vampire is a current series on AMC and season one had excellent costumes and they are going Paris in season two with flashbacks to the 1700s so I’d say check that out - also it’s an excellent show
God willing the remake of Nosferatu will give us what we need!
@@geminihexx9858Yes I’ve seen and love AMC’s Interview! I still think it has amazing costumes- but as fantastic as it is i’d put it more in the period-accurate/blending in category compared to the 90s movie. Working on this video has got me so hyped for season two !!
I always like vampires costumed in a modern vibe with touches of past fashion. I mean, if I were an immortal being who had already lived for centuries, I would definitely wear my favorite 1790's velvet coat with a pair of ripped jeans & a Nirvana tee in the 1990's.
I love that description hahah - i feel like I could see u in the world of Only Lovers
There's a movie named Vamps starring Alicia Silverstone where her character does just that. And Wallace Shawn plays Van Helsing.
amen
My thoughts exactly! ❤
Manifesting for myself: I WILL WRITE AND DIRECT A VAMPIRE FILM.
Omg same ❤
Ahh!! Go for ittt
cast me in it, literally would be a dream come true 🙏🧎♀️
Manifesting this for me and you
Yessss
A scene that I love is in the film 'What we do in the shadows', since they are all vampires they cant see their outfits in the mirror and have to give eachother advice in what looks good. Since the vampires are all different ages varying by hundreds of years, this results in some great (and hilarious) outfits as well as them taking more modern clothes from their victims. So worth a watch and my fave vamp media
Queen of the damned outfits is so iconic. The heavily nu-metal and grunge in a vampire aesthetics lives constantly in my head. They are so cool vampire coded
Eiko Ishioka changed my life and I never even knew it until years and years later. She will never be topped for me.
Agreed, she shaped my idea of beauty and darkness. And my love of bold reds.
Yeah when I realised she also costumes The Cell I realised how much of an impact her work had had on me! Just incredible 🌹
@@rachellydiab mine was The Fall ❤️
The world is a poorer and less beautiful place since Eiko Ishioka died.
31:33 the new Interview with the Vampire TV show had excellent costumes and even references Lucy’s wedding gown with Lestat in drag during Mardi Gras! 🎉❤
Yes it’s so good!! I rewatched while i was working on this 🙏🏻
YESSSSS!!!
@@rachellydiab and so in character for Lestat, can’t wait to see where this TV adaptation goes in the upcoming season.
Yes! A remake that is actually good and has a unique vision. And Storyville era NoLa is one of my favorite historical times & places. And the teenage Lucy does an impressive job, which had to be intimidating; as Kirsten Dunst was so iconic in her portrayal of Lucy.
I knew that outfit reminded me of something. Now that I think about it, I think that him biting into the fake baby with the blood confetti going everywhere was also a reference to Lucy's character in Bram Stokers Dracula.
Thank you so much for including Aaliyah as Akasha in your video! Out of all female vampires, I think that hers was the most seductive and utilitarian! I honestly don't think that the vampire trope gets explored enough in the cinematic lens as culturally relevant and evolutionary. I've always thought that that the vampire should reflect a mesh of current and period style. That way it, would be a nod to the period of creation as well as the transformative and adaptability of the vampire (current but still locked into the past). THIS VIDEO WAS AMAZING!!
The costuming in Bram Stoker's Dracula is chef kiss perfection
the lack of what we do in the shadows rep was criminal, but not enough people talk about the only lovers left alive so its forgivable :)
i believe she stated that she was only taking about the costumes of vampire MOVIES near the beginning of the video (but tbh i was still rather disappointed to not see any buffy the vampire slayer rep myself lol)
@@darkangel4994 WWDITS is a vampire movie...
@@darkangel4994WWDITS was actually a film first :)
I kept mistaking that Radiohead poster for a digital photo reference added in post...I was like, okay when are you gonna talk about the grungy vampires in the picture. And it was just Thom Yorke.
I applaud that every time you talk about a different vamp aesthetic your outfit changes this is cinema this is art
*snaps in awe and appreciation* ❤️❤️❤️
thank you hahaha
I love that you mentioned 'A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night"! Super underrated in western cinema awareness. Slow pacing, but it's deliberate and atmospheric.
Also why vampires in film always look out of place in terms of their fashion i think is because they cant simple shop around for clothes as they closed at night when they are awake, makes sense why their outfits are sometimes are few decades off which i never really considered why before
Love this idea
"So, do you always wear velvets and fur coats to try and mimic the warmth that you no longer have as a walking corpse?"
"What?! No! I literally have no active pain receptors. Winter is just the only time where it's dark enough out during business hours so I'm able to shop."
i looooved the costumes in interview with a vampire- and surprisingly the what we do in the shadows series also had some really excellent costumes
What we do in the shadows almost made it into the video!
Vladislav's look for the masquerade is so cool and dramatic 😅
flamboyant chic
Vivienne Westwood's clothing was used to dress Nadia in later seasons ❤
The last part of the video talking about the 2020's not being a new/different era (in terms of style) for vampire films is interesting because we seem to have entered a sort of cultural stagnation when it comes to fashion, as we're seeing yet another resurgence of another style decade: the 2000's; more and more people are noticing this stagnation, too.
Also, I love video analyses/essays like this and you're also very funny and personable so you've made it your own!
Also also, I relate to your aversion to low-waist jeans, I will never concede because theyre just too low to be comfortable 😮💨
hi thank you!!
I so agree with how it relates to fashion in general - as much as the current wave of fashion/alternative fashion is really fun, it’s not very exciting just because it’s sooo referential. Cool 16 year olds dress exactly like my older sisters friends did it 2006 haha.
It does make it feel like we’re at a bit of a standstill… and I wonder when that’ll collapse in.
anyway lol, thank u for watching ❤️❤️
I don't see a stagnation. I mean we always had past decades fashion resurging. Look at the medival fashion resurgion of the I think 60's, maybe 50's. The only difference I see is that we now have clear images of the decades we're referencing. Therefore our fashion is much closer to the original. People didn't really know, what medival or classical fashion looked like, so they dressed how they thougt it looked like but they still tried to be as close to the original as possible. Only now our 'as close to the original as possible' is able to be pretty much the same as the original. We've always referenced and comtemporary fashion was always seen as unoriginal because by the time we wear it we've already seen it a thousand times on magzin pictures or runways or portraits of the nobles or on window stils depending on the time period.
I mean, all fashion references the past. The early 1800s regency referenced the Greek and Roman togas of say, 400BCE, both in terms of fashion, as well as furniture, houses, gardens etc etc. There were many medieval revivals, both in art and in everyday fashion, think of the pre-raphaelites. The florals and over the top fashion of the 1830s was a reaction to the relatively minimalist 1810s, and a reference to the opulence of the mid 1700s. The “Robe de Style” from the 1920s is a very obvious reference of the paniers from the mid 1700s.
The cycle seems shorter because we're in it. Plus fast fashion and industrialisation makes it easier to cycle quicker, but it's not as if the fashion in the 1800s didn't change dramatically from season to season. Compare 1819 to 1820, pretty similar, and then look at 1820 and 1830, completely new silhouette. It's just cheaper now, so more people follow fashion in some way. But also, we look at periods of history and see one big period where everything looks fairly similar to us, 1830s to 1870s fashion looks fairly similar to most people now, big skirts, the end. But the shape, length, decoration etc of those skirts are very different and someone from 1865 would very definitely be able to tell a fashionable gown apart from one from last season, and would never mistake an 1840s dress for an 1850s dress. Same goes for the wide paniers and big hair from the 1700s, most of us won't be able to tell apart the hair or gowns from the 1750s or the 1770s, but there was a lot of variation of shape of those dresses and hair that would be instantly recognisable as old fashioned or modern to a person from that era.
Even with current Fashion Weeks (especially Milan), there's nothing new. No standouts. Just more of what was out last year, what has already proven to sell.
@@laurabucksath183Actually, the biggest difference is that the eras referenced used to be much, much further apart than the ones referenced now. As in, the people who lived in those decades were well on their way to being just a pile of bones when fashion decided their clothes were cool again, not merely referencing the clothes in fashion when they were kids.
You're not talking about Buffy the Vampire Slayer! she has iconic costumes.
I love Spike's style, his long leather jacket, silver hair, black painted nails and the prosthetics on his face when he turns into a vampire! very sexy 🤣
She's only talking about films, but you are 100% right.
True! Buffy made the sporty cheerleading outfit goth!
@@hannahprice8984she deffinately mentioned some miniseries in there...
To be fair though Spike is a clear send up of Lost Boys, and Angel is "I wanna fit in".
Darla and Dru on the other hand... more interesting.
Fashion was suchhh a part of Buffy! That scene in the first ep where she spots a vamp not via her slayer powers but because his outfit was out of date and ugly!
and "what we do in the shadows" put all these styles together! my favourite vampire movie
dead but delicious!
Yes! i came to the comments to see if someone had said it, what do we do in the shadows costume design is amazing!
Ahh love this! A new vampire film came out from Quebec last year called Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (lol) and it really had some fun fashion moments. The main vamp has sleek long black hair with blunt bangs and wears a poofy vintage fur hat with a black turtleneck. I think the movement of the long black hair tracks a lot with vampires preternaturally milling about in the shadows in literature and cinema!! But also fur is such an interesting fashion choice because it feels so prehistoric, a textile that immediately binds a character to the natural world!! Esp in a cold Canadian climate!! Anyways good job, subbed!!
Hello! Yess, it's only brief but I actually do mention Humanist Vampire at the end - thought the costume did a really lovely job a nodding to vampire history and yet keeping them believably stylish. Thank you for watching ♥
I LOVED this movie. It was so sweet!!
HOT TAKE: vampire costuming includes the extremes of opulence and subcultural references, bc it’s an easy way to show the audience “this character is isolated from society either by choice or necessity”. Whether the character is one or the other is determined by how rich (“above it all”) vs poor/rebellious (“separate from it all”) they are. I’m so excited to see the rest of your videos!!
the movie Vamp is a good glampire example! the 80s tastic use of keith harring body paint is so beautiful
Grace's Katrina is everything!!!
I'd like to add on to your collar/neck thing at the beginning of your essay, that it makes sense from a design perspective! As humans, we subconsciously look for information/social cues in hands and faces. By having a big design element in the costuming near the head it helps draw the viewer's gaze to the focal point of the face and keep them there to then engage with the actor's emotive performance in addition to all the potential for metaphor like you mentioned (the vulnerability of the neck and desire to protect it, etc.).
Awesome video, really fun to watch! Loved all your different outfits for each group too.
your energy and freedom is addictive. i love this.
Aaah thank u!!!
Absolutely adore vampiric fashion! Also love the way witches are designed as well throughout media!
You asked for examples of sexy lady vampires and one that comes to mind is Carmilla from Vampire Hunter D although it is a Japanese anime, so a change of media.
A few people have said this! I'll check it out (-:
The ladies in the Castlevania Series also fit the mold
Does 1970s The Vampire Lovers count? It's a Carmilla retelling and as per the 70s, so many bare breasts 😅 but generally it's more of period costuming, glam-esque
Love that you included Aaliyah's Akasha in the thumbnail
my favorite vampire aesthetic will always be Drursilla and Spike form Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The perfect mixture of a victorian goth style and a cool punk vampire hahaha
It’s interesting to track vampire costuming with their role in media/culture - from monster of the night to sympathetic love interest, and something in between 🤔 love this video!!!
Such an evolution right!! And thank you ❤️❤️
Nosfuratu is also referenced in a comedy tv show “What we do in the shadows”. First a film than a series about vampires. I highly recommend. It has The Office humor ❤❤❤
I am so happy that Only Lovers Left Alive was included here because far too few people know of it but it is such a good movie
Isn’t it brilliant!
This video was everything! I’ve been such a vampire girl my whole life and it’s mostly been due to the costuming and the way their looks directly translated on screen their mystery and sexuality. You’ve encompassed that and more all within this video. Plus you brought so much nostalgia to this Millenials oldie heart! So glad I found your channel in the dead of night while scrolling!
Hey thank you so much for watching, glad you enjoyed 💜💜 such a lovely comment
Eiko Ishioka's costumes are pure art!
Not the late baseball game with the boyfriend's family😂😂😂
Also, all the different Dracula musicals go HAM on fashion, if any of you miss the glampire era, highly recommend!
omg yes this has just reminded me that when I was a teenager I saw this crazy French Dracula musical!!!! That was buried deep hahhaha
@@rachellydiab there's more than one french version, lol 🤣 I also saw a couple of snippets of Korean Dracula musical, and the main man is very much K-pop version of Lestat with some blood red hair, that was fun!
hello 🌹🌹 I’m so excited by the amazing response to this video - thank u so much to everyone who’s watched, commented and supported! It’s brought a lot of growth to my channel which is incredible.
Means the world to me xx
Eiko was the GOAT!!
She also costumed The Cell and The Fall. The storylines are ok but the costumes are drop dead gorgeous.
You can see Dracula’s armor mirrored in the dream suits they use in The Cell
Yassss I loved this, I’m obsessed with Lucy westerna and this was titillating🧛🏻♂️
Thank you!! I just watched your Lucy video - such good stuff! You speak so eloquently 😍
@@rachellydiab thank you love ❤️ I hope to see more from you soon x
love this video and as a big vampire books nerd i just wanted to add some bonus literary context for anyone interested so here goes!!
a lot of these depictions of glamorous and sexy vampires (and even the more blending-in ones!) owe it all to anne rice's writing and with _interview with the vampire_ being published in 1976, a new image of vampires emerged and influenced pop culture : beautiful and romantic, sensual, individual beings, torn by human emotions and thus unlike the previous depiction of vampires seen as impious monsters. the character of Lestat in particular being this iconic bratty, campy, extravagant, insufferable and megalomaniac, bisexual mess, definitely set a precedent in vampire pop culture and literature!! (think about it, your fav whiny gay vampires i.e. BG3 astarion would not exist without lestat being written by rice in the 70's!). It for sure influenced the more glam fashion and overall image of vampires, and in 1985 the sequel _the vampire lestat_ , in which we get an 80's glam rock superstar Lestat, came out (as well _the lost boys'_ script getting acquired by production, a movie that was partly inspired by iwtv) and that for sure set the tone again for more leathery rock-y vampires! and i can't talk about sweaty new orleans gay vampires without mentioning brite's _lost souls_ (published 1992, based on earlier novella by brite from 1987-8) and his splatterpunk, grungy, dirty, decadent and gay vampire characters, which certainly had less influence (it's an iconic but tough horror read, ngl) but still fed the vampire mythology with a more "not-really-humans-not-really-monsters", modern, tortured and complex individuals approach, and added a more grunge aesthetic to the mix. anyways thanks for your work!!! (if anyone wants to correct or add to this you're more than welcome!)
I feel sexy vampire is orientalism: from Stoker's novel we can infer how the vampire is in itself the fear of the results of ~industrialisation~globalization~...a fear of a culture that is not the colonial England where the sun never sets (nor rises)...the same time period where orientalism was at its momentum. The fetishization of the "oriental" woman plays into the femme fatale trope...mysterious,dark,exotic and alluring though frightening because she's uncanny, woman...mix it all and we get a 2000s orientalism revival sexy vamp.
oh for sure! vampires in asia are beautiful women but not to the point theyre seggsualized. They more of smth to be wary of~
Reaching.
Yes, that and the fact that Vampires give the Best Hickeys 🤤
I mean, all of Theda Bara’s marketing was orientalism 101, and that wasn’t exactly cutting edge even in the 1910s, having already become a stereotypical trope in vaudeville well before making its way to cinema 🤷🏻♀️
Loved the subject matter. I've been obsessed with both vampires and costumes most of my life.
Interview with a Vampire was the reason I started studying costume design.
I’m surprised you omitted AMC’s Interview with the Vampire because I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else reference the 1920’s 30’s and 40’s the way they have in a vampire project.
Season one’s costuming really stands out because Louis and Lestat are basically J. C. Leyendecker illustrations come life. I find that especially interesting because the show really leans into the queer themes of Anne Rice’s books and Leyendecker notoriously modeled his Arrow Collar man after his life long lover/ partner Charles beach.
Lestat also wears an extravagant costume in the finale episode of season one that seems like a nod to the wedding gown in Coppola’s Dracula film. It’s very drag, I loved it. Louis and Claudia also wear costumes that complement Lestat’s.
ooooooh I would love to see your take on pirate costume design ❤
Cool idea, will put it on the list!
Fantastic video essay. Super cool.
One thing I would like to say is at a fan of Vampire the Masquerade (and the World of Darkness as a whole), a lot of the Video Games in the series have really interesting vampire designs, particularly Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines and Shadows over New York.
Bloodlines range from the classic to the modern (at the time, the game does take place in 2004), with clear influence with the more Punk vampires of Lost Boys (My personal fav). In the early part of the game, you are introduced to two influential vampires, Jeanette and Therese, and it's really inventive how they use their design to tell their story. Jeanette almost has a Harley Quinn aesthetic (which falls into the 90's aesthetic), while Therese is a very well-put-together businesswoman, despite the fact both co-own the same vampire club. Moreover, all the playable clans have their own style, ranging from the conventional to the glam to just plain weird (seriously, some of the Malk outfits are really fun.)
Meanwhile, Shadows over New York is a visual novel following the newly embraced Lasombra named Julia. This one is much more modern, but it's really interesting cause you get to see Julia's transformation. In life, her outfits are awkward, and her suit doesn't quite fit. Meanwhile the transition in her outfit alone... well... I don't want to ruin it but it is truly something. Not to mention the giant silver crucifix she wears is a nice touch to the way the Lasombra clan has controlled the Catholic Church throughout history (Or at least tried to control it, the Society of St. Leopold have constantly butted heads.).
Hi!! This is coool - I'm not a video game person at all to be honest but this was really interesting to compare! I do get tempted sometimes to get more involved in gaming because of the incredible lore and design in horror games... so maybe I'll see these for myself one day.
Thank you for watching (-:
@@rachellydiab if you wanna see but not play check out the Play Throughs by Maven of the Eventide. Highly recommend. She's probably why the algo recommended you to me. 😅
I just love the vampire fashion. It’s so amazing like victorious and I love the interview with the vampire costuming and I think even in the TV show
I love history of fashion and creatures vids. I watched a vid on how vampires are turned using actual scietofic reasoning it was so good😭 so glad i can add to my collection of vids about the history of vampirism
Preface this as a 40-something GenX, who grew up with horror movies playing often on my VCR... Sexy lady vampire- Grace Jones as "Katrina" in Vamp... it's so 80's camp, but Grace is undeniable. Also, Gary Oldman as Dracula was a bit of an awakening for me as a young teen. He's my favorite Dracula. Oh, and shout-out to Chris Sarandon's sexy "Jerry Dandridge" in Fright Night. Delicious. 💚
Yes I only learnt about Vamp through the comments on this video, but the costumes look incredible!
I think Gary is a very justified vampire crush hahah. He's still got it (-:
Thank you for reigniting my obsession with vampires!!! Stunning video
Absolutely love how in dept all of your analyses are.
So happy I found your channel definitely a new favorite of mine!
such a kind comment, thank you ❤️❤️
If you did do vampires on tv next, the dive into true blood would be scrumptious
Love this! Your channel is quickly becoming a favorite!
Thank you so much!! So kind ✨✨✨
Girl I hope you get big, like BIG big. Your ethical approach to opinion giving already is so fresh; citing sources, fun evidence and your sweet, fun (purely real) personality kept me watching even though its vampire hours and i should be asleep. KEEP IT UP!!!!!!
Ur so lovely thank u!!! ❤️
Vampires are trying to hide the bite marks on their necks. It’s harder to identify them if the puncture is not on display. That’s why the high neckline is popular🤓
Section timestamps:
Intro 0:00 (of course)
Defining the Look 1:49
The Dracula 4:48
The Cool Vamps 9:50
The Glampire 15:16
The Sexy Lady Vampire 25:13
Outro 30:24
Side note: the outfit changes help to distinguish each section when scrubbing through the video, and I think that’s really neat!
THIS VIDEO WAS MADE FOR ME OMG. vampire chronicles changed my life
wow- I love fashion and horror as well- I would love to see more of this type of video!
I really loved this video. It called to mind buffy the vampire slayer and The Strain as honorable mentions! But still fantastic job and your outfits were on point throughout of course
this video was really enjoyable and informative! I love the variety of vampire costuming :)
Loved this video so much!! Definitely inspired to rewatch all the movies I’ve seen and check out the ones I haven’t! One thought re: the sexy lady vampire archetype-although she’s technically not a vampire I think Isabella Rossellini’s character in “Death Becomes Her” definitely draws some inspo from the sexy lady and glampire stylings!
literally the most perfect video ever, thank you!!!
Was sooo hoping you would mention a Girl Walks Home and BRILLIANT… you did! ❤🧛♀️
Referencing your Vanessa Redgrave costume from The Devils: Don't stop doing such things. Flying too close to the sun with our interests like that does open us to ridicule. But the day you meet a person who appreciates this part of you (or hell, even, incredibly, RECOGNIZES your niche costumes) is the day you either make a friend for life or the love of your life. That is how I met my best friend. It's 22 years this year we have been friends. We met at a Halloween party. I saw her costume and was very interested, I got closer and started examining the details and really looking at her and she was looking at me and smiling. I said, "Can I guess?" She said, sure. "Mrs. Havisham", I said, like 90% sure. She was astonished. She was like, "omg, NOBODY KNEW. They thought I was just a Zombie bride or some crap...omg what did I do with the book?!" 😂 She had been carrying a properly antique looking copy of Great Expectations "to help explain." We literally spent the rest of the night getting drunk and looking for the damned book 😂 She was overjoyed I had known. But it wasn't that hard for me, bc I ALSO loved that character from that very book. We were meant to be friends ❤ and we might never have known each other if I wasn't attracted to her interesting niche costume. And for the record - you looked FCKING AMAZING. Never stop!
P.S. I adore this video and your looks in it (esp that light pink vintage dress in the beginning and your leopard print coat). Thank you SO MUCH for talking about Ishioka, she is an often not mentioned but INTEGRAL part of why that film is so loved and enjoyed even today. I held off watching for a while bc I wanted to give this vid my full attention. I subbed to your channel recently and I'm so glad I did. 🌹
This is so cute!!! Thank u for being here ❤️❤️
Love this, love your channel, absolutely love any vampire movie
thank you ❤️
i was confused for a whole minute thinking the radiohead poster was a vampire fashion example 😭😭😭😭lmaooo
U are not the first person to say this hahahah
You know. I think this was a goid introduction to your channel. Also, realizing I have more vampire movies to acquire.
this was a great video! loved it! i hope someday you do a version on vampire costumes in TV because there are so many great vampire shows with stellar costuming and i would love your takes on them too
Loved this video! Can't wait to watch all of your other videos (they all look really interesting). I especially liked this video becouse I have a story where there are vampires so seeing all these different asthetics vampires can have is inspiraring (also great reccomedations for movies and series with vampires)
Hey thank you! Hope it was helpful for your story 🌹
I just found your channel tonight and I'm obsessed. not much to add, just everything about your work is great. keep it up
@@morgangunning30 thanks girl ❤️❤️❤️
This video has really reminded me of my love for the the vampire "genre". Bram Stoker's Dracula, Blade, The Lost Boys are all staples for me and it's nice to focus on the fashion of these movies because the fashion is always so captivating, vampires are either cool or fanciful in a way you wish to achieve.
I love your voice, accent, style, reviews. Subscribed ❤thank you
So kind thank you ✨✨✨
Love your video girl ❤ so much details and really well explain
I was in high school when underworld came out and the combo of sexy vampire, glampire and cool vampire has officially cemented into my brain.
How do your videos not have more views wtf!! I absolutely love your take on things ♥️
Thank you 💜 💜
You hit the nail in the head with the berliner vampires
I think we’ll see more modern vampires in modern clothing in season 3 of Interview with the vampire. Rockstar Lestat in 2026!
Loved every minute of this video, this is one of those niche topics that isn’t covered a whole lot! Films like The Lost Boys, Blade, and The Hunger not only get me into vampires as a kid but really helped develop my fashion/style sense - who knows, maybe I’m a vampire? 🧛♀️🤔😂
The fact that the new Interview with the Vampire show is missing from this but the disaster of Queen of the Damned is included is INSANE. The costuming on the IWTV show is STELLAR.
Omg omg omg!!! Listen- two of my absolute biggest interests are costume design/clothes and vampires! Thank you for making this, it gave me a good idea for the design of my own vampire character in my Spagetti western comic!
My vampire (his name is Chuck) is in the old west in a dirty old town, but he’s also still fancy and put together, and your breakdown and simplification of the main types of vampire fashion is really helping me to get that mix correct in a way that is still distinctly vampire-ish
Hello! Oh that's so cool to hear ✨ Good luck with your comic, it sounds dope
I’d really love it if, in the future, you put the title and year of publication/release somewhere on the screen when showing clips. Like you do when you first mention a work (ex. 5:13)! Which I super appreciate, because it makes it much easier to find that media later without scrubbing through the whole video (my memory isn’t the best 😅)
I love how many clips and pictures you packed into this, too! It shows that you’ve spent a lot of time with the genre(?). Vampire fashion never seemed that interesting to me until this video, so thank you for sharing it with us :)
I love costumes....sometimes they tell a story along with the actor
This is the video I’ve been dreaming of 😭
Loved this so much! New to your channel but would love more horror fashion videos 🔪🩸💃🏼
Thank you!! I’ll definitely be continuing the series 🌹🌹
LOVED THIS!
This was so interesting and well put, you’re great ⭐️
Thank you 💐💐
Also the vampire women in Bram Stoker's Dracula are the epitomy of sexy lady vampire, and I think their costumes were the inspiration for Aaliyah's in Queen of the Damned as well as the female vampire trio in Van Helsing.
I definitely think they inspired the Van Helsing brides! But that's actually why I didn't include them in the sexy vampire category, bc I don't think that they're 'over-sexualised'... I think they're the epitome of the 'better costumed vampires' that other films rip-off hahah.
This is gorgeous!! Now witches✨
Coming soon 🌹
Loved the video! The vampire trope is actual on temptation and bisexualty as far as I know. It's an interesting history! So camp costumes are a good fit :)
love this video so much thank you I needed this!!!!!! deep in my vampire era
hey thank you!! Enjoy heheh 😈
Aaahh! You forgot Underworld as part of the cool kids club! But what an amazing video-loved it!
Eeeee Klimt, past lives and Drakul in one idea🤩fan girling
Btw love your style, subbing!
this is such a great video. vampires honestly have the best fashion. i was thinking of doing a video about werewolves!
loved this video, made me subscribe and watch a few of your other videos. but, i was really hoping you would cover the costuming in what we do in the shadows -- both the film and the series, and also the newer interview with the vampire series.
Thank you! For sure, there are just so so many movies out there that I can’t include everything. For what it’s worth I recently watches the new interview with the vampire series and thought it was absolutely incredible ✨✨✨
I would really love a watch list - so many references I had never heard of!
these are all the films featured (-:
I’M JUST A NORMAL HUMAN
Let Me In/Let The Right One In
Thirst
Byzantium
Twilight
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Su*cidal Person
NOSF
Nosferatu
a girl walks home alone at night
Salem’s Lot (1979)
Last Voyage of Demeter
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
30 days of night
AHS double feature
blade 2
DRAC
Renfield
1970s Count Dracula,
1973s Bram Stoker’s Dracula,
1977s tv adaptation Count Dracula
1979s Dracula
1931 Dracula
1958 dracula
2006 dracula
2013 dracula
2020 netflix dracula
COOL
The Hunger
Lost boys
Blade
Mqueen The Hunger runway
near dark 1987
GLAMP
Coppolas Dracula
Interview with a vampire
Only lovers Left Alive
AHS Hotel
SEXY
Queen of the damned
Van helsing
dusk till dawn
Loved this for a variety of reasons, not the least because I'm writing my own vamp series.
Very informative video thank you! Just a thought, you could include the outfits from Buffy the vampire slayer and from What we do in the shadows!
That all sounded smart and on point!
So excited to see A Girl Walks Alone at Night referenced. I saw it in a tiny arty cinema in Sydney Australia and the 100 or less seats weren't sold out at the session i went to.
its a camp vamp summer okay!!!! ill say it!!!!! i needed this vid like air.
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Damn, that's one spicy outro! 😂 gorgeous and fascinating discussion! I'm in love with so many of these aesthetics and I want them to come back (but not the heroin-chic bodies, please).
This was fascinating to watch ! I never even thought about the 2000s sexy vampire ladies basically being the "exotic fetishization" trope... now it's so obvious! They definitely ate it up but it's a bit disturbing now that you've mentioned it.
I was going to say that I hope you get to watch Interview with the Vampire (2022) but I see that you already answered another comment ahah. I'm so obsessed and I wish i found more people who spoke of its incredible costume design. Although I found a couple of articles on tumblr pointing out Lestat's wardrobe and it's similarity to Black men's wardrobe of that period and more .. Hopefully it'll be just as good for season 2! And if you're ever inspired to mention it in a video i'll be right there 🤭
Hey thank you for watching 🌹🌹 Yes it's soooo good. I probably won't be doing any videos on TV shows, but maybe by the time season 2 is out I'll change my mind!!