Sunday, November 27, 2016

Mercy Street season one TV costumes on display...

The period medical drama Mercy Street is set in America's Civil War in 1862 and follows two volunteer nurses from opposite sides of the conflict, 'Nurse Mary Phinney' (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and 'Emma Green' (Hannah James) who work at Mansion House Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia.

Original season one costumes from Mercy Street
Mercy Street costume exhibit
Mercy Street season 1 costumes
Mercy Street TV costumes
Mercy Street costumes
This display of costumes from the show's first season was photographed at Downtown L.A.'s FIDM Museum on August 9, 2016. Amy Andrews Harrell is Costume Designer, Johann Stegmeir is Assistant Costume Designer and Taneia Lednicky is Costume Supervisor on the wartime hospital drama.

Mrs. Jane Green costume worn by Donna Murphy
in Mercy Street
Jane Green Mercy Street gown
Jane Green Mercy Street gown
Mercy Street Jane Green costume
Donna Murphy Mercy Street Jane Green costume
In the series Donna Murphy plays 'Mrs. Jane Green' the entitled Southern belle whose life is turned upside down when her family's luxury hotel is transformed into a Union Army hospital in Alexandria, a border town between North and South forces.
Nurse Mary Phinney costumes worn by Mary Elizabeth Winstead
in Mercy Street
Mary Elizabeth Winstead Mercy Street Mary Phinney costume
Mercy Street Nurse Mary Phinney costume
Nurse Mary Phinney costume Mercy Street
Elizabeth Mary Winstead plays the New England head nurse, 'Mary Phinney', assigned to the repossessed Green family hotel turned hospital.

Doctor Jedidiah Foster costume worn by Josh Radnor
in Mercy Street
Josh Radnor Mercy Street Dr Jed Foster costume
Josh Radnor stars as 'Dr. Jed Foster' a progressive army surgeon from a privileged Maryland background.

Emma Green costume worn by Hannah James
in Mercy Street
Mercy Street Emma Green costume
Mercy Street Emma Green costume
Emma Green Mercy Street TV costume
Hannah James stars as 'Emma Green', a young, naive Confederate belle who volunteered at the makeshift hospital as an act of rebellion against her privileged family.

If you like these U.S. Civil War era costumes, make sure you also check out these Oscar-nominated Lincoln movie costumes on display.

Mercy Street TV poster
Mercy Street TV poster

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

More movie costumes from The Hateful Eight on display...

Around this time last year, Quentin Tarantino fans were early awaiting the Christmas release of his eighth movie, the bloody Western thriller, The Hateful Eight. Before the movie opened I was able to spy several movie costumes exhibits around L.A., but it was on February 12, 2016 at Downtown L.A.'s FIDM Museum that I was able to get a closer look at some of the cool looks from the movie.

Original film costumes from The Hateful Eight
Hateful Eight film costume exhibit firm
Hateful Eight movie costumes
Hateful Eight film costumes
Hateful Eight movie costumes
Hateful Eight movie costume exhibit
Courtney Hoffman was Costume Designer on this mystery Western set in the snowy wilds of post-Civil War Wyoming, and you can also check out more movie costumes from The Hateful Eight from the other exhibits I'd had the good fortune to see before.

The Hateful Eight movie poster
Hateful Eight movie poster
A costume I'd not been lucky to see in person before was this costume worn by James Parks as the stagecoach driver 'O.B. Jackson' in the movie.

O.B. Jackson costume worn by James Parks
in The Hateful Eight
OB Jackson costume Hateful Eight
OB Jackson Hateful Eight costume
OB Jackson Hateful Eight boots
Also on display at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) Museum's 24th Art of Motion Picture Costume Design exhibition was Samuel L. Jackson's cool 'Major Marquis Warren' Bounty Hunter look.

Major Marquis Warren costume worn by Samuel L. Jackson
in The Hateful Eight
Samuel L Jackson Hateful Eight Major Marquis Warren costume
Major Marquis Warren costume Hateful Eight
Major Marquis Warren glove Hateful Eight
Fans of the actor can also check out his Nick Fury movie costume from Avengers: Age of Ultron on display.

Costume worn by Demián Bichir as Bob
in The Hateful Eight
Demián Bichir Hateful Eight Bob film costume
The exhibit also included Demián Bichir's 'Bob' costume and Jennifer Jason Leigh's 'Daisy Domergue' outfit.

Daisy Domergue costume worn by Jennifer Jason Leigh
in The Hateful Eight
Daisy Domergue costume Hateful Eight
Hateful Eight Daisy Domergue film costume
If you like these Western looks, make sure you also enjoy these movie costumes from The Lone Ranger, these Zorro TV costumes and these original Back to the Future III film costumes.

And hopefully next time it won't take me so long to post costume images like these (but they were worth the wait, right?).

The Hateful Eight movie poster
Hateful Eight movie poster

Monday, November 21, 2016

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie costumes on display...

On my way to see more magical creatures last night, a Q&A with Tom Ford for his Nocturnal Animals movie, the ArcLight Hollywood cinema also conjured up this amazing collection of costumes from J.K. Rowling's latest Harry Potter prequel spin-off, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Original costumes from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts Where to Find Them movie costume exhibit
Original Fantastic Beasts movie costumes
Fantastic Beasts Queenie Tina costumes
Fantastic Beasts Where to Find Them film costumes
Fantastic Beasts Where to Find Them movie costumes
Fantastic Beasts movie costume exhibit ArcLight Hollywood
These five character costumes from David Yates new film were designed by Oscar-winning Costume Designer Colleen Atwood, no stranger to the world of fantasy having created costumes for both of Disney's Alice in Wonderland movies and the film costumes for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie billboard
Fantastic Beasts Where to Find Them billboard
In this first installment in a new magical five movie film franchise, Eddie Redmayne plays 'Newt Scamander', a shy and daffy English magizoologist who travels the globe collecting extraordinary endangered magical creatures.

Newt Scamander costume worn by Eddie Redmayne
in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Newt Scamander Fantastic Beasts Where to Find Them film costume
Eddie Redmayne Fantastic Beasts Newt Scamander costume
Newt Scamander Fantastic Beasts movie costume
Newt Scamander Fantastic Beasts film costume
Newt Scamander Fantastic Beasts waistcoat
Newt Scamander Fantastic Beasts waistcoat costume detail
Newt Scamander Fantastic Beasts coat cuff
Newt Scamander Fantastic Beasts costume bow tie
Newt Scamander Fantastic Beasts costume detail
Newt Scamander Fantastic Beasts movie costume
Eddie Redmayne Fantastic Beasts Newt Scamander costume
Newt Scamander Fantastic Beasts film costume
Fantastic Beasts Newt Scamander trousers shoes
Fantastic Beasts Newt Scamander shoes suitcase
Fantastic Beasts Newt Scamander costume shoes
Fantastic Beasts Newt Scamander suitcase
Newt Scamander Fantastic Beasts movie costume suitcase
The wizard's travels bring him to 1926 New York City where he's on the hunt for some exotic new species and an accident causes some of his mystical beasts to escape his magical suitcase, threatening to draw attention from the non-magical population and the American wizards and witches policing magical use.

I think there's a very Matt Smith Doctor Who costume feel to this eccentric Newt Scamander look with the bow tie and tweed materials.

Fans of Eddie Redmayne can also check out these movie costumes and props from The Theory of Everything, these Oscar-nominated costumes from The Danish Girl and his Marius movie costume from Les Misérables.

Queenie Goldstein costume worn by Alison Sudol
in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Queenie Goldstein Fantastic Beasts movie costume
Fantastic Beasts Queenie costume detail
Fantastic Beasts Queenie Goldstein movie costume
Alison Sudol Fantastic Beasts Queenie film costume
Queenie Goldstein Fantastic Beasts costume detail
Queenie Fantastic Beasts costume detail
Fantastic Beasts Queenie Goldstein shoes
Fantastic Beasts Queenie Goldstein shoes
Queenie Goldstein Fantastic Beasts film costume
American mind-reading witch 'Queenie Goldstein' is the free-spirited younger sister of 'Porpentina Goldstein' and helps Newt on his New York adventures.

Porpentina Goldstein costume worn by Katherine Waterston
in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts Porpentina Goldstein movie costume
Porpentina Goldstein Fantastic Beasts movie costume
Porpentina Goldstein Fantastic Beasts hat
Porpentina Goldstein Fantastic Beasts costume detail
Porpentina Goldstein Fantastic Beasts film costume
Tina Goldstein Fantastic Beasts costume shoes
Fantastic Beasts Porpentina costume shoes
Porpentina Goldstein Fantastic Beasts Where to Find Them costume
Fantastic Beasts Tina Goldstein movie costume
'Porpentina' or 'Tina' Goldstein is the older sister and roommate of Queenie, a down-to-earth witch and former Auror at the Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA).

Percival Graves costume worn by Colin Farrell
in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Colin Farrell Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film costume
Percival Graves Fantastic Beasts movie costume detail
Percival Graves Fantastic Beasts Scorpion collar pins
Percival Graves Fantastic Beasts costume detail
Percival Graves Fantastic Beasts costume detail
Percival Graves Fantastic Beasts costume boots
Percival Graves Fantastic Beasts movie costume
'Percival Graves' is a high-ranking Auror and the Director of Magical Security of the MACUSA tasked with tracking down Newt. I loved seeing the detail and trim on his 1920s-inspired costume up close, especially his deadly scorpion collar pins.

Jacob Kawolski costume worn by Dan Fogler
in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Jacob Kawolski Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them costume
Jacob Kawolski Fantastic Beasts costume detail
Jacob Kawolski costume shoes Fantastic Beasts
Jacob Kawolski Fantastic Beasts movie costume
'Jacob Kowalski' is a 'No-Maj' (the American term for 'Muggle', a non-magical human) who becomes embroiled in Newt's escapades to recapture his magical creatures.

For more from the wizarding world, make sure you also check out all these original costumes and props from the Harry Potter movies.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie billboard
Fantastic Beasts film billboard