CDG - The Costume Designer

Summer 2019

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the ground. However, on the pink-carpeted set, that train was too much for any one person to drag down the aisle. "We had to enlist the brides- maids to lift the train because it was the only way to make it work. On top of that, there was so much fabric, we had to have five people just to get her back-and-forth to set. We're talking about an organdy bustle that was 12 feet long and then you had a 40-foot veil. So it took a team of seven people to get the garment to set because you're walking across the yard of an 18th-century home in England. We had to cross a mud floor, but you can't fold it because it will wrinkle. Ironically, it took a train of people to carry the train. And, of course, there's a reset. So every time she walked down the aisle, we had to set the train so that it would sort of accordion behind her when she walks forward. But to reposition it, you had to have a team of costumers re-pleat the train back- ward so that she could then step forward for each take. This went on for 12 hours. What you see on camera is just this effortless, over the top princess dress and just this like feeling of fun. It doesn't show any kind of the effort that went into this. But actually, it is just one of the most laborious things I have made."

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