One of the most influential Rococo fashion icons was Louis XV’s mistress Madame Pompadour AKA Jeanne Antoinette Poisson - we will see a bit of her later!īecause this is a story that is more focused on character, emotions and betrayal, Acheson and director Frears decided to ditch the more distracting-to-a-modern-audience elements of Marie Antoinette’s late 18th Century fashion so they can more identify with the characters. Acheson roots this film in the mid-1700s before Marie Antoinette came to power. Marie Antoinette's trademark was extreme extravagance which is not present in this film (it will be in the next one!).
For you history buffs out there for context, Marie Antoinette became the Queen of France May 10th, 1774 and was beheaded October 17th, 1793.
It fell out of fashion with the French Reoluvtion which began in 1789. The look and style of this film is firmly Rococo, a style appeared in Paris during the reign of Louis XV, and popular from around 1729-1789. I’ll wait.Īs Acheson explains above, the story has been shifted roughly 20 years before the original novel was set/written to get away with not having the huge hair, hats, shapes, and powder white face makeup that we see in Barry Lyndon and will see in the next blog when we look at Marie Antoinette. If you are a costume person and haven’t seen this film - GO WATCH IT RIGHT NOW. His favorite film costume designer is Piero Tosi and his favorite film costumes are Piero Tosi’s designs for Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard. We will talk more about that one in a future blog post! There were nearly 10,000 costumes and he did it all for less than $2 million. The year before he won the Oscar for Dangerous Liaisons, he won his first for the costume designs for The Last Emperor which is completely epic in scope. He also designed many episodes of Doctor Who in the 1970s. Other designs of his include the films Brazil, Highlander, Wuthering Heights, Little Buddha, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Man in the Iron Mask, all three of the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man films, and Man of Steel. Born in Leicester, England, he was educated at Colchester Royal Grammar School and studied at Wimbledon School of Art. He is a 3 time Academy Award winner for Costume Design for his designs on the films The Last Emperor, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, Dangerous Liaisons, directed by Stephen Frears and Restoration, directed by Michael Hoffman. James Acheson (born March 13th 1946) is a British costume designer known for his film, television, theatre and ballet design work.
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