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70 The Costume Designer Spring 2018 SCRAPBOOK The 1980s movie Somewhere in Time, which garnered Costume Designer Jean-Pierre Dorléac an Academy Award nomination, is a love story told through the prism of time travel. When the adaptation moved from the Hotel del Coronado in California to Michigan's Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Dorléac weighed upon the film's director to change the period from Victorian to Edwardian. Taking a cue from the hotel's creamy interiors, Dorléac eschewed black and red for dreamy pastels and soft evoca- tive garments befitting such a mystical encounter. Although he knew the period well, Dorléac did extensive research to find unique, character defining styles for not only the leads, but also for the hundreds of extras. To create the costumes of Elise (Jane Seymour), he used a storeroom of his own antique lace and silk, which was dyed, beaded, embroidered, and pleated, starting each of her ensembles with an illustration. The final result is evocative, exquisite, and timeless. Jean-Pierre Dorléac will participate in a Q&A at the screening of Somewhere in Time on July 14, 2018, at the Costume Designers Guild Movie Night. Somewhere in Time Jean-Pierre Dorléac Illustration by Jean-Pierre Dorléac in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo: Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, Somewhere in Time, Universal Pictures.