Emma's Oscar-nominated costume designer walks us through all the movie's best looks
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
- Released just before COVID-19 locked us all indoors, Autumn DeWilde’s Emma is a frothy confection of Jane Austen realness. A charming mix of ethereal pastel dresses, sweeping landscapes, and young British actors we’ve all fallen even more in love with over the past year or so, the film makes Austen’s Clueless-inspiring tale its own. It’s equal parts optimistic nosiness and pig-headed selfishness, and DeWilde makes it feel almost as pertinent now as it did when it was released a little over 200 years ago.
Of course, DeWilde was helped in great part by Emma’s below the line teams, which scouted the film’s locations, created the sets and interiors, and put together its period costumes with a twist. The latter role fell to Oscar-winning costume designer Alexandra Byrne, who’s previously worked on films as varied as Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Guardians Of The Galaxy. She returned to her period piece roots for Emma, and found so much success that she’s once again up for an Oscar for her work.
In the video above, Byrne walks us through every major character’s look in Emma, from the garish Mrs. Elton to the oatmeal-tinged Mr. Woodhouse. She waxes rhapsodic about fittings, flourishes, and period fashion plates, and gives us some insight into how the costumes were adapted to the scenes on the screen.
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11:29 Emma's simple wedding dress is very accurate to the book. Augusta Elton said on the chapter: "Very little white satin, very few lace; a most pitiful business!"
alexandra byrne articulates her thoughts in such an eloquent way. what a comprehensively gifted woman she is!
The clothes are magnificent.
"It's not costume, it's clothes". That's So interesting. It was the first 'costume drama' i watched where i felt that the clothes were actual clothes. Like that scene where Emma comes back from the ball and is taking off her shoes. Felt relatable.
Thank you very much for this interesting interview! I really enjoyed it. You get a whole different sense of appreciation for the garments once you learn about the thought and ideas gone into them during production.
I’m in love with this film from start to finish….. as an artist myself it’s incredible to watch this video and hear all the details, research, work that went into to it……
I’ve watched this version of Emma, 5 times now and it’s absolutely gorgeous, incredibly beautiful… start to finish 🫶🏻💝💐💐🎬🎬🎈🎈🎈 bravo and well done! Ty!
A wonderful interview! Thank you for bringing Regency fashions to life in a way that has possibly never been done so well before! It really breathes life into the movie! It's amazing to see how many good things we can have when the directors and the whole creative crew leave space for each other to bring in their absolute best game. In so many movies where design was so sublime you can have these wonderful artists making sure that they give credit to fellow art departments and actors etc. Just goes to show that the whole old trope of a solitary genius is rarely true, it's usually a collaborative effort.
I'm so happy I found this interview Alexandra Byrne is a fascinating person and I enjoyed her breakdown of the costumes very much - thank you.
11:31 I have been looking for this designer just to grab the input she has about THAT BONNET VEIL! AAH IMMACULATE!! 😍 I want this for my future wedding or any day I will get a chance to dress up in Regency fashion.
Thank you, very interesting how the costume is built.
oh what professionalism! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Wonderful interview! This is surely one of the best costumes I've seen in my life, and I love to see what the thought process was behind it