by Niña Mendoza December 22, 2020 Beth Harmon in a plaid green dress and white dre...
December 22, 2020
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| Beth Harmon in a plaid green dress and white dress shirt in “The Queen’s Gambit”. (Photo from @netflix) |
We all know making a movie consists of Costume Designer, but do we know what is the deal behind their very job in films and movies. They are more than the person who sews a costume then make it work in the actor, In minutes without a script and the clothes alone should tell the story itself and built it up. The costume designer is an energy and aura setter, they immerse to who the character, breakdown and making up character development with each chosen color pallete and texture from within to the out. They need to make it not unnormal with the sense that it wouldn’t clash with the flow of the screen and the background even very challenging if the era is set in a different timeline paying very careful with the timely projection of the clothes.
Netflix released this series that is about a young intelligent Girl name Beth who has an astonishing talent for Chess. As the Series follow her story that is set in the 1950s-1960s we also get to be with her adventure and competitions here and there in different countries as she grows and contains being not so normal young girl who gets this benefit of traveling and doing what she is passionate about and talented.
The costume designer Gabriele Binder, really tries to not let us be distracted with and see through the clothes, I didn't realize what he was displaying their, It was a genius move. The costume of “chess” was demanded to come off until the last Episode where Beth’s costume was full white with a puff in her head that mimic the outline of the piece of Queen in the stand of the chessboard, there it is, momentary and have the right to stand out since it's the last episode. Then I started to search for her other wardrobe that's when I realized all of her previous competition clothes are full of vertical lines, checkered and squares, The designer gives it to Beth, how she is very passionate about the idea of Chess that is seen in her clothes textures and minimalistic designs.
In a deeper analysis of her wardrobe, we saw how her clothes signify meaning as they should, with her Long sleeve dresses and closed off turtle neck and her tone done color choices from the episodes, it represents her sociality portraying her as a cold person yet will posture Girl to a lady A lot of her color palette is very darkish shading of brown with her shoes and sometimes her jumper dresses it shows how she is a very unlikely old thinker and with matured wisdom. Beth's choices of clothes even in other places are sometimes in overall sets already it seems like she is straightforward to know what she wanted from head to toe.
I love how colors can seem to be remembered as a person's darkest moment or memorable one. While Beth’s character is shown off as very Self-assured she is also self-destructive on some points, Her only villain was her self and the wired events of her memories with her relationship with her mother. With the young Beth, they chose to represent her with a light green color. “Very early, we had this feeling that this light green could be her color,” Binder said. “We tried to find out what makes her stronger, what makes her weaker, and what are the points where maybe the same color gives her power.”
Told Binder. Luckily, Ana Taylor, The actress, actually gets to have all the clothes she wore on the show.
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