Interview with Eclipse Wardrobe Stylist – Tish Monaghan

Self has an interview with Eclipse Wardrobe Stylist Tish Monaghan.

Check it all out here.

Here is an excerpt:

SELF: How is Bella’s look in Eclipse different from in New Moon?
Tish Monaghan: Well, it’s funny because the movies come out a year apart, but onscreen, only a week has passed. With Bella [Kristen Stewart], she’s a little more settled in public and in her relationship with Edward. And so, at the beginning, I wanted to show a little bit more of a relation to the Cullens’ colors, a cool palate, and steer away from the warm earth tones that were more evident in New Moon.

There are quite a few romantic scenes, so I wanted to show a softer side of Bella without going too girly or feminine, because that’s just not at the heart of who she is. She’s a very practical person, so I tried to soften her up a bit with color. We open up with her wearing one of her signature plaid shirts, but it’s in a softer, lilac fabric and looks very pretty in a field of flowers. We tried to retain the integrity of her character, but just lighten her up a little.

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Interview with Eclipse Costume Designer Tish Monaghan

The EW has an Interview with Eclipse Costume Designer Tish Monaghan.

Check it all out here to learn about the clothes.

Here is an excerpt:

• Even at the film’s premiere, people squealed when Taylor Lautner turned around in that black T-shirt.
“It was almost embarrassing. I felt so bad for him,” Monaghan says, with a laugh. “They were screaming and going ‘Wooooo!’” As she’d done on New Moon, her M.O. was to put him in smaller size Gap or Banana Republic T-shirts to emphasize his biceps, tightening the tees around the arm holes and taking them in down the side. (Pattinson wore Gap T-shirts, exclusively, she adds. “They were what fit him best. They had the best colors. So that’s what he ended up wearing, even when Edward takes Bella up to the tent. It may strike people as odd, but he doesn’t feel temperature, so that’s why we only put him in a shirt, and Bella’s all bundled up, and Jacob, of course, is running around shirtless.”

Interview with New Moon Costume Designer

The EW has an interview with New Moon costume designer, Tish Monaghan.

Read the entire interview here.

Here is an excerpt:

And did you or did you not pay special attention to where the sleeves of Jacob’s T-shirts fell on his biceps? Because job well done.

Absolutely. Everything was geared towards making sure that his arm muscles really showed. There’s a scene where he’s working on a motorcycle, and his muscles are really pulling against this plaid shirt he’s wearing. He looks very strong and very built, and we tried to do the same with this T-shirts. There was no way since it was the same actor that we could show somebody that had grown like six inches. So it was Chris Weitz’s genius idea to tailor his clothes, to make the sleeves a little bit shorter, a little bit tighter — make it look as if he’d grown out of his clothes in a couple of months and hadn’t had time to go get new ones. We found T-shirt brands that fit him well with hardly any adjustments and just stuck with those in earth tones — The Gap, Banana Republic, American Apparel, Levi’s. We tried more expensive T-shirts, but he looked too pretty.

Guide to New Moon Style: The Volturi

MTV Hollywood Crush has up a new article talking about the style of the stars in New Moon.

They got the scoop from the costume designer for New Moon, Tish Monaghan. First up in their New Moon Style Guide they had Bella and Edward. You can view that here in case you missed my earlier post.
Next up in their style guide is they had The Cullens and Jacob. You can check that out here in case you missed it.

Now they have up the Volturi.

Read the entire article at MTV Hollywood Crush to learn how to get their look.

Here is an excerpt:

TIME AND PUNISHMENT

Tish’s starting off point for creating the look of (very old) Volturi? “What I did originally was go back as far in antiquity as I could to where there were visual representations of judicial gowns in sculptures and paintings. I wanted to find something that the audience would recognize as an official robe, but still have the flavor of the 14th or 15th century.” The heavy wool robes were made by the costume department, though each had a different kind of trim and sleeve detail.

Guide to New Moon Style: The Cullens & Jacob

MTV Hollywood Crush has up a new article talking about the style of the stars in New Moon.

They got the scoop from the costume designer for New Moon, Tish Monaghan. First up in their New Moon Style Guide they had Bella and Edward. You can view that here in case you missed my earlier post.

Next up in their style guide is The Cullens and Jacob.

Read the entire article at MTV Hollywood Crush to learn how to get their look.

Here is an excerpt:

THE ENRICHED CULLENS
We know those Cullens are basically perfect, but one modification was made to the family’s closet for “New Moon.” “Chris wanted to stay away from them looking as pastel as they did in the first film,” Tish explained. “He thought they stood out too much. So he wanted them more of the world, but set apart within the color palette — so, just in cool colors.” Here, Alice (Ashley Greene, left) wears a blue dress by Rebecca Taylor and Rosalie (Nikki Reed, right) wears an Eli Tahari design.

Guide to New Moon Style: Bella and Edward

MTV Hollywood Crush has up a new article talking about the style of the stars in New Moon.

They got the scoop from the costume designer for New Moon, Tish Monaghan. First up in their New Moon Style Guide: Bella and Edward.

Read the entire article at MTV Hollywood Crush to learn how to get their look.

Here is an excerpt:

BEGINNING THE PROCESS
“There was already a particular look in place, so the first thing I did was find out from the studio and the director, Chris Weitz, if they were happy with the looks of the characters,” recalled costume designer Tish Monaghan. “Were there things they wanted changed? Once I got those instructions — there were only minor adjustments to be made.” Bella’s presentation from “Twilight” was kept consistent. “[The studio and Chris] liked that she was a tomboy and that she was in earth tones and was a little bit out of place. So I picked up on all of those comments, and when I did all of my purchasing for her, I stayed more or less in that world unless there was something specific that was required in the script.”