Costume Designer Mayes C. Rubeo Talks The Great WallThe Great Wall goes on display at Saks Fi
Costume Designer Mayes C. Rubeo Talks The Great Wall The Great Wall goes on display at Saks Fifth Avenue The Great Wall director Zhang Yimou, star Jing Tian, and costume designer Mayes C. Rubeo were on hand at the Saks Fifth Avenue Beverly Hills location on Monday to celebrate the release of their upcoming film. Legendary and Universal partnered with Saks to decorate window and store displays around the world inspired by the film’s costume and production design. Backstory went in depth with Mayes C. Rubeo (Avatar, Thor: Ragnarok) to talk about her process designing the costumes for a film of this scale. See the full gallery and read what she had to say below. “We had guidelines from Zhang Yimou to look into the Song Dynasty (as a reference), that went from 960 AD-1279 AD. It was a very fluorescent dynasty, so we looked very closely at that for inspiration.” “I watched all of Zhang Yimou’s movies for inspiration…Having someone like Zhang is just enough, he is so involved in everything. He makes the movie complete. I am somebody who is very detail-oriented too, so working with him is amazing…his visual aesthetics are just beyond this world.” “For me, it was eight months of work because I had to do two whole months of research and pre-concepts and then we had six months of prep. It was just enough to get ready for the start of shooting.” “On and off, we had about a 150-person crew between having to hand-sew a lot (of the costumes) and we were making shoes and we had people throughout Europe and Asia making shoes and costumes and sculpting everything and we were lucky to be at the home of the place where they make all the costumes in China for major movies, especially Zhang Yimou’s films. They welcomed us there and had an amazing crew and we love each other. It was fantastic!” “(Zhang Yimou) had all the ideas clear from the get-go. He wanted the Cranes to be blue because the way they attack is airborne – so when he was going to shoot from below he wanted the Cranes’ capes to cover the whole sky so you see the “sky” as the blue of their capes.” “The Eagle Corps was going to be purple but then we switched at the last minute to red because he liked the lines of the reds in the details of everything. The feathered ends of the arrows were bright red so he wanted the costume to match. When Will begins to embrace the Nameless Order, he is given the arrows and they are all very bright red in contrast with his monochromatic costume. That is the type of color matching and contrasting that Zhang like to work with to tell his story.” The Great Wall opens on February 17, 2017. Find out more about The Great Wall on Legendary’s main website. -- source link