Tim Burton’s new fantasy movie “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children,” tells the story of the castle hostess Miss Peregrine guarding a group of possessing special abilities children. As director Tim Burton, who is good at magic and fantasy style, the film once again contributes to the grotesque and warm combination of costume style, amazing.
Looking back at Bolton’s previous film and apparel design, we can easily find some of his unique flavors, such as The absurd and exaggerated of “Beetlejuice”, the dreamy and sweet of “Big Fish”, The Victoria and Steampunk of “Sleepy Hollow”.
“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”: Magic, Neutral, Grotesque
Miss Peregrine’s costume dressing style may be an impressive one in the history of Bolton’s film: The black volume of the eighties is high in perm, clean smokey makeup, black medieval costume, black nails. Miss Peregrine’s style diminishes the femininity of the female characters in the past, while at the same time drawing on the characteristics of the male characters, showing a sleek and neutral witch style. It can be said that the female character in this film is the protagonist. The boy Jack played by Asa Butterfield reflects a group of female images. All the female supporting characters including Emma have the characteristics of Bolton style and era characteristic, which continues the paleness the image of the face and the golden hair finally shows a neutral effect, symbolizing the concept of the commercial film that the director keeps advancing with the times.
“Beetlejuice”: Absurd, Exaggerated, Funny
This is a 1988 old film. The protagonist’s house is in the Gothic architectural style, and the environment in the town is bright and colorful, but it has a fairytale atmosphere. This contrast reflects the difference between the protagonist’s house. The appearance of Winona with smoky makeup and her costumes also showed a black gothic style. Looking back, Winona’s style is quite like the female version of Edward: with a pale and lonely beauty. In addition to the Dark Gothic style, the audience can observe a more exaggerated style of clothing: from the rock stage to see the black and white striped suit, the vampire-style blood red lace skirt, the party’s fuchsia satin skirt, the black veil, and even the sly, Frankenstein With the integration of elements such as green skin beauty, this film is the first time Porter has put together all kinds of rich elements, revealing humor in the absurd, but very harmonious.
“Edward Scissorhands”: Gothic style, Beautiful, Pure Love
“Edward Scissorhands” is the first time that American fashion designer Corin Atwood, who has won three Oscars, cooperates with Tim Burton. Her position in the world of costume design is like Karl Lagerfeld of the fashion design industry. Corin designed the “sharp” scissors for Edward and increased the length of the blade for exaggeration. Therefore, the scissors hand is the core of the whole film, and because the scissors hand blocks the communication between the robot and the people, it also cuts off the love between Edward and Kim. Combining the Gothic style with the beautiful style, Edward’s pale skin color, the silver scissors of the claws, and the knight-style black leather coat, and the blonde hair of the heroine, the fluttering white dress became a set of contrast. This combination of male dark and female aesthetics is seen in Burton’s movies.