Costume Project # 1

The production I have chosen is Sleeping Beauty. My goal is to recreate my own take on Maleficent. Her elegant stature, her presence when she enters a room. In the original 1959 Sleeping Beauty film Maleficent is an evil fairy that seems to be jealous over not having been invited to the party for the birth of the new princess. This leads to us seeing her in a black and purple ensemble. Throughout the film we see her in pale greenish light and when she uses her magic staff her green skin is even more enhanced. This led me to believe opposite that her skin was just pale and only reflected green when she had her staff. Maleficent has very sharp yet beautiful features. Her cheek bones are well defined and her horns are wrapped or at least thats what it looks like to me now. Before I thought that was her head and it wasn't strange at all. Her entrance into the celebration of Princess Auroa's birth is almost mesmerizing and dominating. I wanted to keep those features present for her costume to convey power and authority. However I loved the makeup for this Maleficent particularly her eyes. The lighter purple followed by the darker purple made me want to keep to that traditional style.