/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9874859
For someone who was just going on about accuracy, I have to say I have a weakness for Takarazuka’s Elisabeth costumes.

More redesigns than reproduction, their use of textures and fabrics just do such a great job at conveying the over the top opulence of the Romanov dynasty.

The outright costumey costumes also, I think, outdoes the original Austrian. They really have a much, much stronger sense of the character’s individual personalities, and they track Sissi’s transformation and character growth far more than the rather generic Austrian ones.

>>9525740
Depends if you believe there's no such thing as bad press.

I was dying of curiosity to see that movie for the costumes. When it turned out the costumes were crap, what's the point? This is a thread on a Costumimg board and everyone in this thread has been giving better costume movie alternatives to Beauty and the Beast, how's that 'a commercial'?

If there's no such thing as bad press, then why between Watson going on about muh feminisms and Disney going on about how the movie was totes banned from places because the b-line henchman was gay did the movie *still* manage to slip from the top three spot in like three weeks?

The movie sucked, died quickly in the public eye outside of us bitter costume nerds who are still salty that with all that Disney funding the costumes sucked so hard they screen printed embroidery onto their costumes, and hopefully people are starting to no longer see the Disney logo as a reason to excuse crappy films.

As for Audrey Hepburn movies, My Fair Lady is lolita esque in story, but if we're talking clothes, I'm torn between Funny Face and Roman Holiday for Hepburn's more EGL movie.

Also, how about Showtime's The Borgias? The costumes themselves may not be egl (though the first season palettes for Lucrezias are pure sweet, where the second season jewel tones are perfect for classic, and the third season metallics good for classic/aristo) but Lucrezias journey from gentle and pure to ruthless and cunning seem pretty tonally right.

Has anyone mentioned the German (and Takarazuka) musical Elisabeth? A story set around a royal woman driven to ennui by her pampered royal life and growing increasingly obsessed with the personification of death and her own fantasies of being Titania in a fairy world as well as the 'Death and the Maiden' storyline seems perf for EGL.

Also dresses like pictured.