{"id":60960,"date":"2017-03-18T22:44:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T20:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/?p=60960\/"},"modified":"2017-03-18T22:50:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T20:50:14","slug":"dressing-classic-beauty-beast-costumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/en\/news-el\/entertainment\/dressing-classic-beauty-beast-costumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dressing Up a Classic: All About the Beauty and the Beast Costumes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Costume designer Jacqueline Durran (Anna Karenina<\/em>) knew she didn\u2019t need to reinvent the wheel when it came to designing costumes for Beauty and the Beast<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose costumes exist in people\u2019s imaginations and all I wanted to do was to honor what they expect those costumes to be in a live action movie,\u201d Durran tells PEOPLE of reinterpreting the iconic looks from the animated\u00a0film. The Oscar winner looked to the 1991 original as her starting point, and then to 18th century French fashion\u00a0for further inspiration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided to\u00a0take inspiration from there and enrich the world using historical details,\u201d she says. \u201cFor instance how that works for Belle (played by Emma Watson<\/a>) is Belle has the pockets hanging on the outside of her [blue] costume. The pockets are historical, people tied pockets around their waist, obviously we changed it a bit and put them on the outside and they became part of the kind of reinterpretation of Belle as an active heroine who does things and gets things done. The pockets act as a sort of toolbelt where she keeps all the things useful to her in her day to day life, those are the two elements we really looked for.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/span>DESIGN BY JACQUELINE DURRAN<\/p>\n

The pant-like bloomers Durran and her team added underneath the classic blue outfit were Watson\u2019s favorite addition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re nice, as you can tell,\u201d says Durran. \u201cBut also again they were part of her being able to be more active, so that you don\u2019t feel restricted by wearing a skirt because you can just pull it up and then just do whatever you were going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For Belle\u2019s gold ball gown, Durran and her team opted for light fabrics to accommodate Watson\u2019s desire for a more movement-friendly frock \u2014 and one without a corset.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmma was quite categorical that she didn\u2019t want a big princess dress,\u201d says Durran. \u201cShe wanted to have something she could move in and she definitely, adamantly would not be wearing a corset.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Coinage: The Cost of Beauty and the Beast<\/em>\u2018s Wedding Registry<\/strong><\/p>\n