Colleen Atwood

Colleen Atwood designed the dresses for Tim Burton 'Alice in wonderland', she looked at how Alice has changed from a little girl to a young woman. she says " Lewis Caroll's own drawings, of which there aren't very many and they're quite simple. As Alice went through various eras, there's classic references for them. Because this is so different from what people are going to expect -- Alice isn't a ten-year-old girl, she's a young woman -- there's a nod to the classical need for that."  SABRAMOVITCH (2009). Alice in Wonderland Costumer Colleen Atwood. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.movieline.com/2009/11/24/alice-in-wonderland-costumer-colleen-atwood-its-going-to-be-amazing/. [Last Accessed 13 march 2012].

Colleen Atwood has taken influence from John Tenniel's illustrations to the Disney animated adaptation for Alice while designing the famous blue dress she wears. Colleen Atwood said that she had to design for a young women not a child, while thinking about this she designed a dress for a more older girl with buttons down the front, she also took the corset out for a more lose fitting. the dress comes just above her ankles. there is also no pinafore.

i like this design as it is simple and classic it suits Alice well because you can see that its taken from the original but just made more 'grown up'. 

Here are two dresses that she designed for the film, the first is Alice and the second is the White Queen. the dress that Alice wears was made out of the curtains in the Red Queen's castle I like how it gathers and 'puffs' out a bit like a mushroom. I like the White Queen's dress as it looks simple and old fashioned with is relevant seen as the book was written a long time ago. I like how it goes in at the waist and then 'puffs' out. Some of the designs I have already done 'puff' out at the waist.  

This is the Red Queen, I like this garment because it emphasises her big head it has a huge collar and big shoulders it goes in at the waist to make her hips look bigger, this is relevant to her character as she likes big things and surrounds herself with big things. She is know as the 'evil' character and I think this is portrayed by the way she dresses and the colour of her garments, to me her big shoulders show that she is in power and her large head show that she is 'big headed' and she thinks everyone likes her and she wants everyone to do as she says and if they don't she shouts 'Off with their head!'. I like this design as it varies in size and this is relevant to my work as its to do with playing with scale. You can see in the concept sketch that her hair and face make a heart shaped silhouette which is then mirrored in the dress below giving an hour glass form.