Tag: harry potter fashion inspiration

americanwizarding:

“Formal styles this season favor a move away from traditional cloaks and towards surcotes, tight in the chest and split from the waist down to reveal the robes or gowns beneath. Madam Dogun’s designs favor large collars and trefoil closures, with wand-pockets sewn into large, billowing sleeves, while those of up-and-coming designer Anastasia Bargrova-Bolling more nearly resemble Empire-era spencers, higher-collared and tighter through the sleeve. ABB’s embroidery patterns, inspired by Russia and Central Asia, save these designs from being too derivative.”

—The Elegant Enchantress, Autumn 2013 issue

amortentiafashion:

carmidoll:

Laura Sciacovelli

Beautiful outer robes of midnight blue velvet are embossed with a gold pattern spelled to melt and drip golden tears down the fabric. These robes are truly a masterpiece, crafted by the renowned wixen couturier Cecil Ehn specifically for heiress Fideline MacMillan, pictured.

MacMillan, a journalist and international correspondent for WWN, wore it to a ceremony to receive her Order of Merlin, First Class. The award was given for her dedication to protecting Muggles caught in violent wixen conflicts abroad–almost always at the risk of her own life–while bringing attention via her reporting to the human rights violations suffered by Muggles and wix alike at the hands of despotic Muggle governments supported by their wixen counterparts.

woofety:

How many of the costumes were “made from scratch” and what percentage are vintage?

I cannot say the exact percentage, but where possible I used vintage clothes. In other cases, I used pieces of authentic embroidery, lace, or buttons that I found in the London vintage market, applying them on corsets or dresses made with new fabric. I also used vintage men’s jackets, waistcoats, scarves, and hats when the actors measurements and characters would permit.

(Gabriella Pescucci, costume designer for “Penny Dreadful”)

(from Variety.com)