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Dienstag, 3. November 2015

My Penny Dreadful photoshoot

After this totally crazy Halloween week I have a bit of time today to present you the results of my Penny Dreadful photoshoot with the amazing Neil Kendall of Chester!
Neil specializes in vintage style photography and is very well-known in the burlesque scene. He worked with many international stars and has a very unique style! If you want to see more of his work have a look at his website!

Ready? Here we go!! This set was custom built for our shoot - I asked to go for a seance-vibe, so here I am tarot-reading in my victorian parlour!
Hair and makeup were done by me as I don't really like other people doing it for me! I was planning to go for 1890s hair, but it was a bad hair day! lol

This is probably my favourite shot!

And another one in full colour, just to show you how vibrant this looked in real life:



 As you can see we ended up telling the story of how the seance goes wrong. ;)


I also purchased a lovely little scorpion necklace to go with the theme from Elegant Curiosities, zooming in here for you so you can actually see this:

 Soooo dramatic!


And here's one with a different outfit and setting - step inside my victorian brothel! :D

This is only a small selection though, I received a folder with over 40 images from the shoot. It was a lovely experience working with someone so creative!

And I guess that's all folks! Hope you enjoyed this! :)

All costumes designed and made by me for Odelia Opium Costumes, shoes by Bordello.

Freitag, 23. Oktober 2015

A Penny Dreadful dress

This autumn I wanted to make a dress inspired by the Penny Dreadful tv series, especially the seance scene in season 1, for a photoshoot!
I loved Eva Green´s seance dress, as seen in this lovely still:

Diesen Herbst wollte ich gern ein Outfit inspiriert von Penny Dreadful naehen - speziell das Kleid aus der Seance in Staffel 1 - fuer ein Photoshooting!
Hier zu sehen in einem schoenen Szenenfoto: 



I wanted the shoot to have a Victorian occultism feel and I adore the costume design in PD! Here's my moodboard: 

Ich wollte das Shooting gerne im Stil von PD halten, mit Anlehnung an den viktorianischen Okkultismus Trend des 19. Jahrhunderts! Hier mein Moodboard zum Thema:

 https://www.pinterest.com/nehelenia78/penny-dreadful-shoot-inspiration/

I opted for a rich burgundy duchess satin that does have the look of silk, but not the price tag! I picked readymade patterns as there was simply no time to make my own. For the skirt I used Laughing Moon's Five Gore Skirt (#101) with short train and it went together like a dream! I lined the satin with a heavy polycotton and I am very pleased with the result! This skirt has exactly the lovely 1890s silhouette I was hoping for! I left it undecorated for now, but might add a bit of trim to the skirt later.

Ich habe mich fuer einen burgunderroten Duchesse Satin entschieden, der zwar den Look aber nicht den Preis von Seidenduchesse hat! Dazu habe ich passende Schnittmuster ausgewaehlt: fuer den Rock den 5-Bahnen-Rock von Laughing Moon in der Variante mit kurzer Schleppe. Der Rock war simpel zu naehen und ist komplett mit Poly/BW gefuettert. Die Rockform entspricht genau der schoenen 1890er Silhouette, die ich haben wollte! Den fertigen Rock habe ich aus Zeitgruenden vorerst undekoriert gelassen.


For the bodice I used the 1892 Ball Gown Bodice pattern by Truly Victorian (#490) and modified it. Here are some construction details for those who want to know how I did it:
I omitted the sleeves of course and opted for a hook and eye closure on the back instead of the suggested buttons. I purchased an embellished black guipure motif on ebay for the center front part and made a mockup of the bodice. I wanted to make the pleats as seen on the original costume, so I started pleating directly onto my mockup bodice.
Here's the pleats pinned on top of the lace motif:

Fuer das Oberteil habe ich Truly Victorian's Balltaille 1892 verwendet und nach meinen Wuenschen abgeaendert. Ich habe die Taille ohne Aermel angefertigt und einen Hakenverschluss im Ruecken angebracht statt Knoepfen. Fuer den Mittelteil habe ich eine fertige Spitzenapplikation bei ebay erstanden. Das Vorderteil wollte ich gern mit Falten verzieren, wie am Vorbild zu sehen.
Hier sind die Falten auf das Vorderteil gesteckt zu sehen:

I finished the bodice with self-fabric piping and a bit of black beading on the shoulders. I really wanted the long strands of bugle beads as seen on Miss Ives' costume, but left it too long to find the right stuff in time. So I took what I had: the offcuts from the black lace motif made great shoulder pieces plus a length of beaded fringe.

Die Kanten sind mit Paspelband aus dem gleichen Stoff verziert, fuer die Schultern habe ich schwarze Applikationen verwendet. Ich haette gern die langen Perlstraenge an den Schultern gehabt, wie an Miss Ives' Kleid zu sehen, habe aber leider zuviel Zeit verstreichen lassen, um noch das passende aufzutreiben. Also musste ich bereits vorhandenes verwenden: die abgeschnittenen Stuecke der grosen Applikation wurden zu Schulterdeko, zusammen mit schwarzen Perlfransen, die ich noch hatte.

Ready to see the finished dress? Okay!
Bereit fuer das fertige Kleid? Okay!






The photoshoot is done now, but I'll share the finished pics in my next post! Hope you enjoyed this!

Das Shooting ist nun im Kasten, aber die Bilder werde ich im naechsten Post zeigen! Bis dahin!