Deleted User said 10 years, 4 months ago:
Take a really dark/sad fairy tale or poem. The ideas I’m about to suggest are going to take a long time btw but hope they help )
The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe
-entire dress is black, bodice is basically entirely made of shiny black feathers. Skirt can maybe flutter around the legs, if you know what I mean? And the longer the better. Halter neck (the chocker should have some bright adornment) and the dress should be as backless as possible.
The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde
You could maybe do a paired costume? It’d take ages though. Anyway in Happy Prince, the Happy Prince tells a little bird to give everything of his to the poor of the village, and he ends up losing his gem eyes, the ruby in his sword hilt, and eventually even his golden skin. The bird dies and the statue is melted down. Anyway the theme could be to try and show how beautiful simplicity is (if you can be bothered making two costumes). i.e. make a really extravagant golden/yellow costume, then a really simple, graceful silver/white/grey costume.
Pocahontas (okay so it’s not sad or dark. It can still be awesome! )
The main theme for this would be a MASSIVE headpiece. Made of feathers or something sort of tribal like that, where the back of the headpiece is actually dragging on the ground.
The Nightingale and the Rose, Oscar Wilde
He is so good at writing depressing stories. Anyway for this one just a plain-ish, golden brown-ish dress, simple and chic, with a long tail (not literally) trailing on the ground a little like a nightingale’s. I’m not sure how but around the chest area you have to incorporate a bloody colour somehow. Maybe a dark red ribbon, maybe an ombre from red to brown. This symbolizes the nightingale piercing her heart to make the rose. Also if possible, the model’s makeup should focus on really red lips (because the nightingale sings to make the rose).
Umm I can’t really come up with any other depressing stories, and I don’t really want to. But for dramatic and big, you could also base it on an obscure Japanese folktale. There’s things like the bamboo princess etc. and they’re all pretty good. If you do a Japanese one you can create a beautiful kimono-esque dress with an intricate ‘bow’ at the back. If you do a Chinese one you could incorporate a massive headpiece (with things dangling from it), like the ones Chinese ladies used to wear in the Chinese imperial era quite a while ago.
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