Camilla Huey

To Design and Conceptualize an appropriately minimalist and modern costumes and headdresses for the singers and musicians for this Japanese Opera without the design cliches of western interpretation. This was a preview of a work in progress that is moving forward as an Opera and Film.

As Artist/Costume Designer created personifications of nine literary women in the life of Aaron Burr as a social circle. I was Producer of the film now available as a download on VHX. I researched, conceptualized and executed each of the personified portraits.

The costumes were colorless so that they transformed in color onstage from Michael O'Connor's lighting and set to music by Nick Brooke and Ian Chen. The costumes incorporated pieces of repurposed clothing that were distressed and patch-worked together with tech dying. Costume were co-designed with Sylvia Grieser.

Created special one of a kind couture garments particularly for the desert scenes on the camel.

Created bridesmaids dresses and petticoats among other items too numerous to name!

Created Couture one of a kind bridal dresses for wedding sequence, etc. Special pieces for Sarah Jessica Parker.

Set as events transpiring on a single day, the challenge was to give each character distinct and instant character reads through costume. Although events transpired in a single day the characters intersect only in passing, linked by geographic proximity. The intersecting lives unfold against a backdrop of a suicide bombing revealed through documentary footage. Most character had only one change.

This was a film set in the 1920's south on a Mississippi plantation. The costumes were vintage purchases and some rentals. The costumes required constant hand laundering despite their fragility because of filming in August on a Mississippi cotton plantation. Extreme aging and distressing required.