Mary Stuart - 2011

As part of a collaboration with Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama we worked on the costumes for their production of Mary Stuart.  This particular take on the play took traditional shapes and styles from the Tudor period and updated it with a modern twist, and simply using black, white and red throughout the production. 


We constructed traditional Tudor doublets for the male characters, but used leather and zips as opposed to the traditional fabrics and fastenings.
Leather was a completely new fabric for me to work with, and proved a big challenge especially when it came to fitting the garments, as obviously the toile fabric had different qualities to the leather, and the zips minimized movement.