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Les Liaisons Dangereuses Costume Designs & Links

Stock  Fabric and Fabric from my basement I hoped to incorporate into the show:  I was working on designing and making this show for less money than it would take to rent a very low grade version of the show.  This is not due to my evil Dept. Chair (I WAS the Dept. Chair) but due to the reality of our total show budgets for the year all having to be generated from ticket sales in our small town market.  Being without the usual subsidized budget of many universities, we often shift our designs to avant garde themes that make the costumes/sets cheaper, but Liaisons, we all agree needs to look very "real" and very rich...but on the smallest budget possible.  So I raided every part of my basement, the UAF stock, Value Village, etc. to find existing textiles that might be used to make this rich look for less money.  I took lots of those fabrics one buys with the idea "I'll make something for me later" and never actually sews, and sacrificed them to the Liaisons gods. I also hoarded decorative vests in stock for years by buying them whenever they were cheap at thrift stores.  The reason I took photos of all this stuff was #1, to be able to view them at home while I was drawing my renderings and so plan things better, and #2 to show these fabrics and costumes in their unmodified form so viewers can compare them in before and after states.  I've left up images of the textiles I gathered even when in many cases they weren't used, so you can see how the whole process of pulling and selecting worked out.

  Mvc-013f.jpg (69141 bytes) Mvc-014f.jpg (68738 bytes) MVC-015F.JPG (43546 bytes) Mvc-016f.jpg (65910 bytes) MVC-017F.JPG (40823 bytes) Emelie's under skirt:  MVC-022F.JPG (129020 bytes)

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The Art of Dress : Fashion in England and France 1750 to 1820
Dress in France in the Eighteenth Century Period Costume for Stage & Screen : Patterns for Women's Dress 1500-1800 Fitting & Proper

The Culture of Clothing : Dress and Fashion in the 'Ancien Regime' (Past and Present Publications)

Fashion in Detail : From the 17th and 18th Centuries The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930

Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century : From the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The History of Underclothes Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwoman's Dresses and Their Construction: c.1660-1860
  Marat Sade (DVD) Daewoo DS2000N DVD-Video Player (Silver)

The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France Hair & Wigs for the Stage : Step by Step Dangerous Liaisons (Widescreen Edition) Madame De Pompadour : Sex, Culture and Power

 
 

  Dramatic Works of the Marquis de Sade

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  Mvc-010f.jpg (69783 bytes) Mvc-021f.jpg (65815 bytes) Mvc-022f.jpg (53183 bytes) Tourvel's quilted skirt: MVC-020F.JPG (122945 bytes) MVC-022F.JPG (120440 bytes)

 MVC-011F.JPG (70814 bytes) Mvc-017f.jpg (85116 bytes) Didn't use 

Mvc-001f.jpg (91242 bytes) Mvc-002f.jpg (78629 bytes) Became the tablecloth  Mvc-003f.jpg (103875 bytes) Mvc-004f.jpg (105649 bytes) Didn't Use   MVC-005F.JPG (37675 bytes) MVC-006F.JPG (29561 bytes)  Didn't Use   Mvc-007f.jpg (82113 bytes) Mvc-008f.jpg (63349 bytes) Mvc-009f.jpg (99600 bytes) Became Tablecloth for lobby reception

MVC-010F.JPG (56725 bytes) MVC-011F.JPG (53097 bytes) MVC-012F.JPG (56552 bytes) MVC-019F.JPG (70649 bytes) Emelie's dress MVC-022F.JPG (129020 bytes) MVC-013F.JPG (133042 bytes)  

: MVC-013F.JPG (107984 bytes) MVC-014F.JPG (124345 bytes) Base for gold lace to be made into Merteuil's elbow- ruffles Mvc-010f.jpg (99604 bytes) MVC-017F.JPG (141992 bytes)

 Mvc-015f.jpg (92854 bytes) Mvc-016f.jpg (89467 bytes) Became background drapery for the advertising display case in the lobby

  Mvc-017f.jpg (72536 bytes) Mvc-018f.jpg (84035 bytes) Volanges' dress MVC-018F.JPG (155775 bytes) 

 Mvc-019f.jpg (66654 bytes) Mvc-020f.jpg (68392 bytes)  Didn't Use   Mvc-021f.jpg (88631 bytes) Mvc-003f.jpg (91989 bytes) Mvc-001f.jpg (78207 bytes) Mvc-002f.jpg (79149 bytes)  Didn't Use 

  Mvc-007f.jpg (88796 bytes) Mvc-008f.jpg (112185 bytes)  Didn't Use   

 MVC-001F.JPG (64813 bytes) Mvc-002f.jpg (63732 bytes) Mvc-024f.jpg (83207 bytes) Mvc-008f.jpg (60628 bytes) Merteuil's underskirt: MVC-027F.JPG (135277 bytes)

  Mvc-003f.jpg (105199 bytes) Mvc-004f.jpg (98013 bytes) Mvc-005f.jpg (72857 bytes) MVC-006F.JPG (94113 bytes) MVC-007F.JPG (93027 bytes) MVC-008F.JPG (82577 bytes) Mvc-007f.jpg (94522 bytes) Rosamonde's dress, MVC-007F.JPG (147699 bytes) AND Valmont's banyan MVC-017F.JPG (141274 bytes)

  Mvc-013f.jpg (90711 bytes) Mvc-004f.jpg (96284 bytes) Mvc-005f.jpg (84186 bytes)  Used in display case  

 Mvc-008f.jpg (39672 bytes) Mvc-009f.jpg (51013 bytes) Mvc-010f.jpg (73777 bytes) Cecile's dress (overdyed a deeper lilac) MVC-019F.JPG (170736 bytes) 

  MVC-006F.JPG (53926 bytes) Mvc-007f.jpg (55186 bytes)  Didn't Use  

 Mvc-018f.jpg (90358 bytes)  Didn't Use  

  Mvc-011f.jpg (50049 bytes) Mvc-012f.jpg (122356 bytes) Mvc-013f.jpg (75987 bytes)  Didn't Use  Mvc-014f.jpg (56000 bytes) Mvc-015f.jpg (94160 bytes) Mvc-016f.jpg (88105 bytes)  Didn't Use  Mvc-017f.jpg (94553 bytes) Mvc-018f.jpg (86745 bytes) Mvc-019f.jpg (91641 bytes) Mvc-020f.jpg (102649 bytes) Mvc-021f.jpg (94569 bytes) Rosamonde's Dressing gown:

  Mvc-022f.jpg (88134 bytes) MVC-003F.JPG (54992 bytes) MVC-004F.JPG (47794 bytes) MVC-005F.JPG (31485 bytes) MVC-006F.JPG (44005 bytes) MVC-007F.JPG (48714 bytes)  MVC-008F.JPG (63670 bytes) Mvc-009f.jpg (93250 bytes) Volanges' under skirt:MVC-007F.JPG (155420 bytes)

 Mvc-010f.jpg (77086 bytes) Mvc-011f.jpg (61878 bytes)   Didn't Use

  Mvc-013f.jpg (68727 bytes)  Didn't Use   

Mvc-018f.jpg (40440 bytes)  Mvc-020f.jpg (80908 bytes) MVC-021F.JPG (67602 bytes)  Didn't Use  

Fabric I have bought for the show from the Sari Places in Berkeley, CA:

Mvc-001f.jpg (60626 bytes) Valmont's first coat MVC-017F.JPG (158978 bytes) and the matching velvet for Merteuil's jacket MVC-019F.JPG (139226 bytes) were from Fashions from India

I also bought two shades of blue shot silk tissue for Tourvel's DressMVC-021F.JPG (120105 bytes)  and Danceny's Banyan MVC-024F.JPG (135981 bytes) at The Sari Palace in Berkeley.  

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