Not to say that Sheppard did not try her darndest to get a natural variation of the princess tiara on the film’s heroine. If there is one trademark princess accessory that Aurora is missing, it’s her own headpiece. But I wanted the hood because I think it also gives Aurora this little girl look.” “So its very similar coloring-of course, Angelina’s was more dramatic and bigger volume. When Maleficent first met Aurora, Sheppard wanted the villainess to briefly be reminded “of the younger, innocent fairy she once was”-not the mistress of all evil that she had become. The first time teenage Aurora and Maleficent meet, Fanning’s character is wearing a hooded coat that is nearly a mirror image of the cape Maleficent wore the night she lost her wings and set forth on an evil, destructive path in life. In fact, Sheppard was so intent on maintaining Aurora’s modesty that she incorporated a conservative layer of chenille under Aurora’s costumes and insisted on sleeves so long that they almost covered her hands.Īlthough Aurora and Maleficent are spiritual opposites, Sheppard did link the two in terms of one costume piece. I wanted something really girly and innocent and also closer to nature.” With those constraints, Aurora’s off-the-shoulder necklines in the original did not make much sense. “I really walked away from that image completely. For Elle Fanning, who plays Aurora and was only 14-years-old when she filmed the movie, this meant brainstorming age-appropriate and setting-appropriate designs. Sheppard was determined to create a more “down to earth” and natural Princess Aurora. When it came to adapting Sleeping Beauty for modern audiences with Disney’s live-action retelling, Maleficent, though, Oscar-nominated costume designer Anna B. But in reality, she was being costumed by Disney’s animation director Marc Davis, who gave the fairy tale teen a chiseled hourglass figure, nary any ounce of baby fat, and the chic style sensibility of Audrey Hepburn. In theory, Princess Aurora was cared for-and by extension, dressed by-a trio of eccentric fairies in the forest until the age of 16. In retrospect, Disney was sending some sartorial mixed messages about Sleeping Beauty in its eponymous 1959 animated film. “I wanted to give her the same light, like she has got in the real life.” “She is incredibly innocent, she has got this very fair complexion, beautiful hair, and never really needs makeup,” the designer explains. Sheppard matched Aurora’s color palette to Elle Fanning’s personality.
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