Changeling

A preview for the last movie I worked on is now online.  It's a 1920s period piece directed by Clint Eastwood starring Angelina Jolie.  I worked as wardrobe slave through pre-production, production, and post-production so I'm very excited to see how it turns out.  From the trailer you can get some idea of what the clothes are like.  

What the designer seemed to struggle with the most was how to find a balance between making Angelina look beautiful (in a delicate, motherly way), but not too beautiful.  The film is based on a true story about a woman named Christine Collins, who was a very plain and "homely."  While those involved in the film's production were not about to actually change or distort Angelina's physical appearance, any "homeliness" had to come in through her clothing and an emphasis on her at times grotesque thinness.  So the costumes, about half of which were vintage and the other half constructed, were deliberately made to look unglamorous and plausible as belonging to a 1920s middle class single mother (so no flapper dresses and long strands of pearls).  Successful or not, we shall see.  But she looks pretty good in a straightjacket.