The new Disney Cinderella movie trailer came out today. Last trailer they only gave us the shoe…this trailer they give us a whole lot more: the stepsisters, the fairy godmother, the mice, the DRESS!
Have a look and tell me what you think:
The movie is out March 13, 2015. You can look at promo photos on Lily James’ website: http://lily-james.org/gallery/ And you can read about the costume design on Vogue.
Given I’ve written a book called Cinderella’s Dress (Entangled Teen, 2014) set in the 1940’s I was eager to read:
About the setting:
Though the fairy tale is timeless, Powell was aiming for the look of “a nineteenth-century period film made in the 1940s or ’50s,” she says.
About the dress:
As for the Dress—the magical raiment that arrives courtesy of Cinderella’s scatterbrained fairy godmother (Helena Bonham Carter) on the eve of the royal ball—it’s a cerulean gown with a voluminous skirt composed of more than a dozen layers of gossamer-fine silk in different shades of pale blue, turquoise, and lavender. “When I first put it on, I felt both empowered and scared,” James recalls. “How could I live up to this? Then I realized I could use that fear to show me how Cinderella would feel at that moment.”
And considering I’m editing Cinderella’s Shoes (Entangled Teen, Fall 2015) right now, I was very interested in reading this:
About the shoes:
Cinderella’s signature slipper, meanwhile, is made of crystal, designed in collaboration with Swarovski, and based upon a shoe from the 1890s that Powell found in a museum in Northampton. That shoe had a five-inch heel and no platform. “So besides the fact that Cinderella’s slipper is crystal, the shape of the last makes it impossible to walk in,” Powell says. “I was amazed that I was allowed to do it—that nobody wondered how they were going to reproduce it for children. But then,” she muses, “I guess the glass slipper is the ultimate fetish shoe, isn’t it?”
For more updates go here: Disney Live Action Cinderella Behind the Scenes and Trailers
