I love learning the new details of the upcoming live-action Cinderella movie. Here is more about the dress designed by Sandy Powell:
“The challenge was to make the gown look enormous, but still … have it move beautifully,” Powell said. “The gown has to look lovely when she’s running. I wanted it to look like a watercolor painting. There were layers there of the finest fabric in different colors so when she moves, they move in a water-like fashion.”
More than five layers of feather-light material make Cinderella’s blue gown appear as if it’s floating on air as she descends the palace steps: “The fabric is so fine that if you dropped a piece in the air it actually floated like smoke,” Powell said
Underneath those layers are petticoats “with literally miles of frill.” Powell said it took four miles’ worth of thread to hem one petticoat.
Read more from the LA Times Movie Sneaks: Live-action ‘Cinderella’s’ costumes get a glammed-up makeover
