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labricoleuseI mentioned in my last post that we're now working on the final show of the season at Playmakers Repertory Company, Kander and Ebb's Cabaret. Today's post is the second in a series about the surface-design projects being headed up by my co-crafts artisan, second-year graduate student Candy McClernan. Candy has a particular interest in computer-aided design and the application of digital technologies to costume production, and this show has provided her with quite a few projects in that area.
This post concerns the creation of a custom Deutschmark-print fabric for the Kit Kat Klub's show costumes for the "Money" number.
Costume design by Jennifer Caprio for the character of the Emcee, to be played by Taylor Mac.
Note the allover print of bills on his jodhpurs.
Costume design for the Kit Kat Girls, with their skirts of the same allover bill print.
Costume designer Jen Caprio provided us with a variety of research images of the enormously devalued Reichsbanknotes. This one above is a 50,000,000DM note.
Candy used the images of the bills Jen provided us to create this scatter collage above,
which prints in a square repeat. Then we had Spoonflower print yardage of it for us in
cotton twill for the jodhpurs and the cotton/silk blend for the girls' skirts.
Here's the mockup for the "Money" girls on the form!
Costume Director Judy Adamson is the draper for this look,
and i'm doing the leatherwork on the lederhosen-inspired suspenders.
And, don't forget, you have until 6pm on Sunday to get yourself into the drawing for a free copy of the Resurrection Engines anthology featuring my story, "Tidewrack Medusa."
This post concerns the creation of a custom Deutschmark-print fabric for the Kit Kat Klub's show costumes for the "Money" number.
Costume design by Jennifer Caprio for the character of the Emcee, to be played by Taylor Mac.
Note the allover print of bills on his jodhpurs.
Costume design for the Kit Kat Girls, with their skirts of the same allover bill print.
Costume designer Jen Caprio provided us with a variety of research images of the enormously devalued Reichsbanknotes. This one above is a 50,000,000DM note.
Candy used the images of the bills Jen provided us to create this scatter collage above,
which prints in a square repeat. Then we had Spoonflower print yardage of it for us in
cotton twill for the jodhpurs and the cotton/silk blend for the girls' skirts.
Here's the mockup for the "Money" girls on the form!
Costume Director Judy Adamson is the draper for this look,
and i'm doing the leatherwork on the lederhosen-inspired suspenders.
And, don't forget, you have until 6pm on Sunday to get yourself into the drawing for a free copy of the Resurrection Engines anthology featuring my story, "Tidewrack Medusa."
