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Zoe Taylor
Costume Maker
Costume with Textiles BA (Hons)
Design
I chose ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ by Jules Verne for my Final Major Project and designed it for a theatre production. From my research I took traditional Victorian silhouettes and used them to play on stereotypical ideas of how the audience would read them. I also concentrated on the theme of travel. To put my own twist on them I used Victorian stamps to inspire the shaped edgings. The stamps also inspired the colour palette and print designs alongside artifacts from around the world.
 Around the World in 80 Days |  Phileas Fogg |  Princess Aouda |
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 Passepartout |  Detective Fix |  General Sir Francis Cromarty |
 John Bunsby |  William Batuclar |  Colonel Stamp Proctor |
 Princess Aouda Costume Change |  Gormenghast Cast line upFor our main second year project we were asked to re-design Gormenghast in our own vision. The story has quite a gothic feel to it, and I wanted to get away from the dark colours and make it colourful. Therefore I designed this production as if it was set inside a Gustav Klimt painting, using his paintings for my main source of inspiration for colour and textiles. For the silhouettes I concentrated on couture fashion, in particular collections by John Galliano. |  Fuchsia - GormenghastThis is the design for the costume I made in my second year. |
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