Project around the color red and deformity in Shakespeare’s characters. I made Catarina’s costume, from The Taming of the Shrew. A dispersed fury shifted to an obedient and submissive wife. This XVIth century costumes are all completed with masks and should show, and accentuate, the characters’s psychological and/or physical distortion.
The two sides of Catarina are presented on the same mask, features are accentuated while contrasting on the same face, showing all the character’s ambivalence.
While the mask plays with opposite left/right, the costume design, plays with opposite up/down : the rigid and opaque doublet, is contrasted with an un vertugadin en organdi rappelant la « cage » que organdie spanish farthingale (reminding the "cage" how Catharina associates her wedding). The sleeves are accentuated to envelop and again imprison the character.
Historical reproduction of Jan Albertsz Rotius painting "A portrait of a young woman of Hoorn" (1658).
The main material of the lace collar has been created by a combination of several transparent fabrics. The project was a collaboration with ceramicist students who had to incorporate ceramic pieces creating a soft/hard, transparent/opaque game.
A lace pattern is created by burning the organdies strips before assembling the different fabrics layers. Then, each strip has then been assembled by hand on a horsehair base.
Fourteen paintings have been reproduced for this project. These pieces were displayed for 6 months at the Mertetto Museum (lace museum) in Burano,Venice Italy.
Folkloric traditional costume of Arles (south of France) in the 1830's. This character must be a spinner, so the thread tactility must be present on the costume.
The spinner work is highlighted by some little ornaments of wind thread sewn onto a gelatin sheet. After the the gelatin evaporates, the thread decoration is sewn by hand onto the costume.
Show : "Du Fil au Rideau - Cannes"
Fileuse 1830
Doublet and wide lace collar XVII century
Tancrède - Avignon Opera House
Co-production project between Avignon Opera and "Centre de musique Baroque de Versaille" on the "Tancrède" opera of André Campra, costumes by Erick Plaza-Cochet. Making of the 18th century's costumes and alterations on accessories. Designing the toilles for « Monsieur Choufleurie » project.
The Taming of the Shrew
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New collaboration with director Ella, designing and making of a 1616’s woman dress. Short Opera on Anne Hathaway taking place the day after the death of her husband, William Shakespeare.
The show start with actress wearing a long shirt, an underwear in those times related to the intimacy idea, the actress will get dress on stage while singing and will be ready to get out and face the world by the end of the show.
Buxton Festival and Copenhagen Opera Festival summer 2016.
Hathaway, Eight Arias For A Bardic Life Opera - Helios Collective
