My initial response was, as usual:
Oh boy! So far I've met every challenge with an enthusiastic and gleeful rubbing of hands and energy to start. Now . . . to pare that enthusiasm down a little bit in terms of time I spend thinking of outfits. Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy Oh boy!
A little later, came an "Oh Boy!" of another sort, looking for clarification.I set myself a list of questions as to why I would want to be reimagining an iconic garment and came up with numerous reasons for doing so. However, when it came to fitting it into the film, it seemed to lose reason -- that is, I could imagine having a different color, or time period, setting, and so on, all of which would require a reimagining of other elements of the scene. One possibility also is not particularly caring for an iconic garment, and I can't think of one I don't care for. In reimagining Scarlett O'Hara, as an example of something I didn't care much for, the whole antebellum south style leaves me cold, at least at this point, so reimagining the dress would take it into another time period I think. . . . For those reasons I am wondering if you can give any clarification on how to redesign a dress as if it had not been done before that also fits in with the set and other clothing established in the film, as those things all working together are what make a garment appealing and result in its becoming an icon (case in point, the white shirt and short dance tights of Audrey Hepburn).
Should I be looking at replacing, for example, Audrey Hepburn with Alex, who would not wear that particular outfit as well as Audrey Hepburn did, though another one that fits the bill could be designed for her?
I do have one film picked that I can mine for possibilities -- "The Women" -- so I'm not MIA on this one. I'm just curious, as I hit a wall last night while considering things outside of the film I lit on (as a hummingbird lights on things), and the clothes in it may not be stand-alone icons.
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