Costume Critique #1 Yoshimi Koide

I looked at costumes from the recent Cinderella, which came out this year. Sandy Powell, a British costume designer, did the costume designing for this movie.

 This lizard man's makeup and hair color was my favorite among the costumes. The color green on his hair and face easily tells us that he is originally a lizard, and the color worked very well especially in the darkness. I also like how his teeth look like because it looks a little more sharp than normal man's (I am not sure if he had any change on his teeth though).

I felt that costumes represented each characters very well. For example, Cinderella's daily dress is a little behind the trend; it represents that she does not (or cannot) pay attention to her fashion but she express her beauty by what she does and thinks. The step-mother's dress at the dance party in the palace is another example that represents a character. Looking at he dress, I felt that she loves herself so much and is very confident about her appearance that she thinks she may be chosen by the prince by wearing trendy nice dress. However, I did not like her dress because it seemed to be too modern comparing to the other characters.