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Dressing obstinate headstrong girls: costumes in Jane Austen films
19 September @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
In “Dressing Obstinate Headstrong Girls”, costume designer and fashion historian, Jolene Marie Richardson, will be examining how costume designers use Jane Austen’s characters and the Regency period at large to create the look of Austen’s most notable characters. Looking at “What does Regency clothing tell us about history?” and “How do costume designers take history but imbue their own voice as designers?”, this lecture will look at the role of costume designer and how they work with actors, screenwriters, and directors to create visual signifiers for each character. We will also examine how the times in which films were made reflect both that era and the historical era of the story. Come with Jolene as we go behind the seams into Jane Austen’s world of her most famous film adaptations.
