"Durran told Vogue: We're not representing a moment in time at all. The mood board for Cathy's costumes included Thierry Mugler, Alexander McQueen, a German milkmaid-style, and Elizabethan, Georgian, Victorian and contemporary fashion. The challenge was to distill that into looks that told the story that Emerald wanted to tell, Durran says. Storytelling and spectacle rather than a quest for historical accuracy lead Cathy to wear a dress in a material resembling cellophane on her wedding night, as if she's a gift wrapped for her husband."
"Wuthering Heights is part of a movement of costume design disobedient to historical accuracy in favour of creative freedom and, arguably, fun. Costume designer Kate Hawley acknowledges her Oscar-nominated work on Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is also far from historically accurate. In Yorgos Lanthimos' 2023 film Poor Things, set in the late Victorian era, Bafta-winning costume designer Holly Waddington used modern fabrics such as plastic and latex."
Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights employs deliberately anachronistic costumes that mix historical silhouettes with contemporary and avant-garde influences. Jacqueline Durran's designs draw on Thierry Mugler, Alexander McQueen, Elizabethan, Georgian, Victorian, German milkmaid references and modern fashion to create narrative-driven looks. Cathy’s wedding dress uses a cellophane-like material to suggest gift-wrapping and emphasize storytelling over period accuracy. The film joins a broader movement in which designers prioritize creative freedom, spectacle and material experimentation. Other recent examples include Kate Hawley's work on Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and Holly Waddington's use of plastic and latex on Poor Things.
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