#Holly Baxter

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Clickbait: A Novel

By Holly Baxter.

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emma stone as bella baxter in ‘poor things’ (2023), costume design by holly waddingtonin

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Emma Stone as Bella Baxter in Poor Things (Film, 2023).

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Crimson Peak (2015), costumes designed by Kate Hawley Poor Things (2023), costumes designed by Holly Waddington

"The house really dictated how to approach the costumes, from a sculptural point of view, to give them extra depth, to give them a painterly quality. I didn’t want to get myself caught up in detail that didn’t feel like it meant anything, like generic lace or decoration. So all the details we made and they all came from the symbolism of the characters or the house itself. The leaves on Lucille’s dress were constructed by hand, with a single piece of cording. And for Edith, the motifs of the flowers, she blooms. It was about trying to create an atmosphere. [...] [Edith's] like a chrysalis at that point. She’s very fragile, so the butterfly is dying and becoming this little husk. [...] When Guillermo said to me, “It’s about a house that breathes,” that’s why we chose the lightest fabric, just a little thing to try and help the storytelling with the idea of the house." "[As Edith falls in love with Thomas Sharpe,] the silhouette of the sleeves becomes fuller, and the flowers start growing on her dress. You have the world of the moon, and black, and Lucille being the moth, and Edith being the butterfly.” - Kate Hawley

"I wanted texture to be everywhere in the costumes… for everything to feel like it was living and breathing – from an animal or a sea creature from a shell. It all has a kind of organic quality to it. There are curvy, linear shapes, and no sharp lines. Bella’s costumes are very airy. Those sleeves are like huge lungs full of air, and she’s just been reanimated so that felt like a good thing to include. The huge sleeves also affect her body shape, which felt like a good idea, because she is more creature-like when she wears these.” - Holly Waddington

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poor things, costume design by holly waddington

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people launching discourse on this scene being "overdone," "problematic," and misperceiving it as the film trying to state injustice existing as a wild, deep concept have just lost the whole plot. the film is told through bella's eyes as it is BELLA'S story and she had lived a sheltered life that, while no fault of her own, was in part due to being white and wealthy and in part because god confined her to his house. the point? it is meant to be an immensely dramatic scene because that is BELLA'S poignant, indignant reaction to the realization that injustice exists. her heart is destroyed. this is a GOOD thing in the sense that she ... you know ... truly cares about systemic oppression. it would be disheartening to see her act indifferently as those around her do.

indeed, she has what we'd call "rich white lady" guilt and her naïveté leads her to initially believe that throwing money at the problem will solve it, which, while good-intentioned, obviously will not solve things. this clownish behavior, again not an insult to bella as she doesn't know better, is intentionally presented that way to comment on the ridiculousness of that typical white saviour mentality from people who are in fact aware of injustice and simply do not choose to educate themselves on how they can meaningfully contend it because they do not care. bella, however, upon finding that it's not that simple, is committed to finding ways that actually do help. the witnessing of the slum was her moment not just of "growing up" from a sheltered life but of radicalization, which ultimately leads her to socialism and the finding that deconstructing oppressive systems is a collective effort. read: the scene isn't "poverty porn" but rather a wake up call and one of action for bella given she is a good-intentioned being. her impetus to effecting actual social change. she couldn't do this if she didn't even know it existed.

i am perpetually shocked at people's proclivity (perhaps propensity but it seems to be a common phenomenon to hop on a hate train) to misperceive this film, in so doing acting in a petulant, unhelpful way that the film critiques, but i digress.

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Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) Copper gown.. Poor Things (2023).. Costume by Holly Waddington.

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Emma Stone as Bella Baxter in Poor Things (Film, 2023).