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♕ empress regnants of all russia

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“The colour palette was inspired by two tapestries – one at Hampton Court Palace, and another at the V&A – that production designer Lucy [Spink] had found. Some parts of them have aged terribly, so the colours are very faded – beautiful but washed out – and then some bits are still quite acidic and bright. And then you’ve got all the dark shadow tones, so together they formed the basis of my colour palette.

The focus in this production is that for once, it’s not about Henry VIII, it’s not about the men: it’s about the women. So, the men are on the outside of our focus as an audience, almost. They are the black tones, the dark shadows, and their costumes are not really to be noticed at all. Anne has her in a circle of the women around her – her ladies in waiting – and they’re in these kind of faded, beautiful washed-out tones.

Then you’ve got these acidic bright jewel tones that capture the eye in Anne’s wardrobe: she needs to be the centre of focus. The idea is that the audience’s eye is always drawn to exactly where it needs to be.”

“The Unlikely Inspiration Behind Anne Boleyn’s Commanding Costumes”, Lynsey Moore interview with Bustle 

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Dancing “La Volta” in Tudor Films

The Sword and the Rose (1953) - Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) - Anne Boleyn and Henry Percy

Elizabeth R (1971) - Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley

Elizabeth (1998) - Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley

The Virgin Queen (2005) - Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley

The Tudors (2008) - Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII

Wolf Hall (2015) - Anne Boleyn and Thomas Howard

The Spanish Princess (2019) - Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII

Anne Boleyn (2021) - Anne Boleyn and Henry Norris

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I’m angry with myself? Why?

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→ History meme:  4 Families/Dynasties : (¾) Tudor Dynasty (England)

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Children of Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon

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man splaining isnt when a guy is excited and talking about something he likes thats just called sharing your interests with people man splaining was when one of my male coworkers started explaining storyboarding to me (a sequential arts major) because he “learned about it from a simpsons dvd extra” 

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Now Frida is a very interesting combination, because Frida will get dressed up, she will wear traditional garb in a non-traditional way. She had her own sense of style, and she celebrated herself. In her darkness, you could see that in her dress when she cut her hair off and wore a suit—we were shocked. But we understood, because the great thing about doing something like Frida is that you had proof within both her words and paintings. Your tools were there. You watched Salma become Frida, and you watched Salma as Frida.

Costume Design by Julie Weiss Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo FRIDA (dir. Julie Taymor, 2002)

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minor coding myself by having bangs

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feel like pure shit just want thee/thou pronouns back

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Tudor Week Day 6: Favourite Tudor Non Fiction Media/s - Documentary

David Starkey’s documentary on Elizabeth I

DISCLAIMER: David Starkey is a horrid, racist git who I denounce utterly as a decent human being. Nevertheless, this is - frustratingly - one of the best documentaries on Elizabeth out there with the most well-casted Elizabeth I’ve ever seen. Thankfully, the full thing is on YouTube so if you watch it there, you won’t be giving Starkey a penny for it.

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art detail: blue & gold fashion

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Tudor Week Day 7: Favourite Tudor Historical Event

The Kenilworth Festivities of 1575

Kenilworth Castle was granted to Robert Dudley by Queen Elizabeth I in 1563, a year before he was to be made Earl of Leicester. Leicester spent lavishly to expand the castle and turn it from a Medieval fortress to a Renaissance pleasure palace, complete with sumptuous gardens for Elizabeth’s use. 

In 1575, Leicester invited the Queen to his castle for a sumptuous 19-day celebration of its completed renovation. Leicester had gone all out; there was music, feasts, dances, hunts, plays and pageants, acrobats and awe-inspiring fireworks - some were shaped like dragons and others could dive into the water and shoot back out, still burning. It was considered by some to be one of the most spectacular events of the century. 

Most tellingly, many of the entertainments were centred around the theme of marriage. Some historians claim that this was Leicester’s grand, last attempt at a marriage proposal to the Queen, a sort of courtly swan song. Other argue that the heavy overtures of marriage are actually Leicester subtly asking the Queen to let him marry someone else since he wed Lettice Knollys soon afterwards. Whatever his true intention, the Kenilworth festivities went down as one of the most magnificent fêtes in English history. 

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ANNE BOLEYN (2021)

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Costumes in Jane Eyre (2011) dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga, costume design by Michael O’Connor (½)

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Katharine Hepburn. The Lion in Winter. Anthony Harvey, 1968.