COSTUME

CABARET - RWCMD 2016

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Costume Design by Jessica Campbell-Plover Directed by Paul Kerryson

Musical Director: Nathan Jones

Choreographer: Tom Jackson Greaves

Set Designer: Tina Torbey

Lighting Designer: Becky Heslop

CABARET SKETCHBOOK

Kit Kat Klub Moodboard

Kit Kat Klub Moodboard

Sally Bowles

Emcee

Kit Kat Dancer

Kit kat Dancer

Kit Kat Dancer

Clifford Bradshaw

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OPULENT SHOWGIRL

Costume, make up, styling-Jess Campbell-Plover
Photography-Jamie Beahan

Brooke Candy Music Video Outfit

The idea behind this project came from looking at costume and styling in music videos. I decided I wanted to create an outfit for the singer Brooke Candy as I love her over the top style. I decided to create a punk showgirl look as it fitted in with the imagery Brooke uses in her clothing and music videos. I wanted to make a feather headdress encrusted with jewels and spikes to portray her opulent style.

Sketchbook Page

Sketchbook Page

Costume, make up, styling-Jess Campbell-Plover
Photography-Jamie Beahan

Costume, make up, styling-Jess Campbell-Plover
Photography-Jamie Beahan

Costume, make up, styling-Jess Campbell-Plover
Photography-Jamie Beahan

Costume, make up, styling-Jess Campbell-Plover
Photography-Jamie Beahan

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Costume designed and made by Jessica Campbell-Plover

FIRST LADY BY GEORGE ORANGE - EDINBURGH FRINGE 2016

Themes of the show moodboard

Garment ideas moodboard

Final Costume Design

Fitting the toile

Black sequin outside

About to reveal

The reveal

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Costume designed and made by Jessica Campbell-Plover

OLD HOLLYWOOD CLEOPATRA

Old Hollywood Cleopatra

My inspiration for this project was Ancient Egyptian imagery and Old Hollywood films that depicted the queen Cleopatra. I wanted to create a garment for theatre that embodied the extravagance of Ancient Egyptian artefacts and the glamour of 1920s-1960s film.

Final Photoshoot

Costume, hair and make up by Jessica Campbell-Plover. Photography and set styling by Sandy Campbell.

Final Photoshoot

Costume, hair and make up by Jessica Campbell-Plover. Photography and set styling by Sandy Campbell.

Final Photoshoot

Costume, hair and make up by Jessica Campbell-Plover. Photography and set styling by Sandy Campbell.

Final Photoshoot

Costume, hair and make up by Jessica Campbell-Plover. Photography and set styling by Sandy Campbell.

Final Photoshoot

Costume, hair and make up by Jessica Campbell-Plover. Photography and set styling by Sandy Campbell.

Final Photoshoot

Costume, hair and make up by Jessica Campbell-Plover. Photography and set styling by Sandy Campbell.

Final Photoshoot

Costume, hair and make up by Jessica Campbell-Plover. Photography and set styling by Sandy Campbell.

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Costume designed and made by Jessica Campbell-Plover

MILLINERY

Oversized Bow Headdress

Headpieces and garments designed
and made by Jessica Campbell-Plover
Photographs by Elliot Newton

Oversized Bow Headdress

Headpieces and garments designed
and made by Jessica Campbell-Plover
Photographs by Elliot Newton

Millinery

Here are some millinery pieces I have created
inspired by circus and burlesque. Some are created from various pom poms stitched together with
details nestled into them, such as bows and sequin stars.
I have also created oversized bows out of a wire structure and also embellished
buckram structures with sequins, feathers and beading.

Oversized Bow Headdress

Headpieces and garments designed
and made by Jessica Campbell-Plover
Photographs by Elliot Newton

Giant Pom Pom Headdress

Headpieces and garments designed
and made by Jessica Campbell-Plover
Photographs by Elliot Newton

Giant Pom Pom Headdress

Headpieces and garments designed
and made by Jessica Campbell-Plover
Photographs by Elliot Newton

Giant Pom Pom Headdress

Headpieces and garments designed
and made by Jessica Campbell-Plover
Photographs by Elliot Newton

Millinery Process

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CORSETRY

Photoshoot

Corset, hair, make up and styling by Jessica Campbell-Plover
Photography by Jamie Beahan

Corsetry

This corset was created by using a pattern that fitted to my personal measurements.
I used a silver satin and a black polka dot mesh to make my corset from. The skills
that go into creating a corset include backing outer fabric onto coutil, fitting the corset to
the body, stitching in boning channels and inserting steel bones,
inserting a busk, putting in eyelets and lacing, binding the edges
and adding any trimmings.

Fitting the corset

Fitting the corset

Back detail

Side detail

Back detail

Front detail

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TAILORING

Finished Half Jacket

Couture Tailoring

Here I created half a woman’s bespoke tailored jacket.
Tailoring a garment includes lots of hand sewing and traditional techniques.
Some of these techniques are tailor tacking, pad stitching, moulding chest and
collar canvas, binding edges, creating a jet pocket, shrinking and expanding
wool with a steam iron, button hole stitching, inserting a shoulder roll
and shoulder pad and lining the garment.

Finished Half Jacket

Finished Half Jacket

Buttonhole

Sleeve Lining

Lining

Shoulder Pad

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Fitting the toile