Heroes and Villains Teh Art of the Disney Costume
The MoPOP Disney Heroes & Villains exhibit: Terminal week, I was privileged to join other journalists and writers at Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture to preview the touring display of Disney costumes originally shown at D23. For Serious Insights, I concentrate on logistics and design. As suspected, project management, IT, and some very diligent task management. Here is what I learned during my interview with Robert Maxhimer, Exhibitions Director, Walk Disney Archives. The interview has been edited for clarity.
Worn by Julie Andrews
Mary Poppins (1964)
Costume Blueprint by
Tony Walton and Beak Thomas
About the exhibit
Disney Heroes & Villains features more than than 70 original pieces and spanning more than 6,000 square feet of museum space, the exhibition explores the vision, process, and arts and crafts used to create the costumes worn by some of the biggest names in entertainment. Visitors will see ball gowns, sorcerers' capes, military uniforms, tiaras, and of course glass slippers, from some of Disney's toughest villains and kindest heroes, many on custom mannequins, as well as photographs and a special moving-picture show.
Where
Disney Heroes & Villains: The Art of the Disney Costume
Museum of Popular Culture
325 5th Ave North
Seattle, WA 98109
When
Opening Sat, June 5, 2021 through April 17, 2022 Key Dates
- Exhibition Open up to Public: June 5, 2021
- Opening Weekend Hours: Saturday June 5: 8:00am-8:00pm I Sunday June 6: eight:00am-vi:00pm
- MoPOP Regular Summertime Hours (kickoff May 27): Every Twenty-four hours 10:00am-6:00pm
- Tickets: Special exhibition fee of $six + general museum access
- MoPOP Members: this special exhibition is included with membership with no additional fees (more than at: www.MoPOP.org/membership)
The Disney Heroes & Villains Interview with Robert Maxhimer
SI: Tin yous provide some background on the exhibit.
RM: Nosotros started evolution on the [The Disney Heroes & Villains: The Art of the Disney Costume exhibit] in 2018. The D23 Expo happens every two years, and we have a pretty big infinite on the bear witness flooring, about 12,000 square feet. We have to bring something every 2 years. Nosotros've washed Disneyland, we've done the Pirates exhibit.
This time, we wanted to accept a slightly dissimilar approach, and focus on costumes, only specifically costume design, and what goes into bringing these characters to life through wardrobe.
What we did was identify the costumes based on the designers and the work that actually goes into it, not specifically looking at the film, or the player, but really trying to notice those special detailed moments in each of these costumes. So it evolved into what yous see here.
And by splitting them betwixt heroes and villains, and anti-heroes, we were able to really focus on those detail moments, and split them and then that people can stand and read a quote, yous know, and look at something that might seem mundane, similar this costume [pointing to Ben Gates costume worn by Nicholas Cage in National Treasure], merely there'southward a lot of piece of work that goes into putting this together for that picture show.
[Cruella De 7, worn by Glenn Close 101 Dalmatians (1996) Costume Blueprint by Anthony]
SI: Yep, that'south not hands off the rack stuff.
RM: No, no, exactly. Not off the rack. And if it is, it's gonna be customized, the designers are just so detail-oriented.
SI: And so how do you track this internally? I'1000 bold there'southward a database, photography.
RM: As far as the kind of logistics of the exhibition we commencement with, with a curatorial brief, everything that we practice starts with basically a thesis statement. Then we get and write that into an outline into the galleries. And once that's really formulated because that'southward the spine, the backbone of our whole exhibit, so we outset moving into object pick.
Nosotros go through our drove and our database, and we encounter what might fit each gallery based on the theme. And so information technology'due south tracked through an object list. And then we take an object listing that volition have the object number or numbers, dimensions, cloth address that kind of stuff.
Disney Heroes & Villains the Slide Show
SI: And nearly of these are multiple parts…
RM: Yeah, exactly. And that's, that's the catchy thing with costumes. A costume does non travel as one piece. At that place are coats or jackets or socks. There are cufflinks, necklaces, and hats, and millions and millions of pieces. So it's a lot to keep up with. But information technology'southward fun, particularly when it all comes together…similar this, upwardly and running.
SI: Exercise you do have something like a bill of materials for i of the costumes that basically says the you know, for this, for this part of the exhibit tits these pants, these shoes?
RM: Yes, yes. So we have a registrar on the exhibition's team. And that's pretty much her whole job is to break that down into a detailed list and then come up with a manifest for aircraft and condition reporting for the installation.
All of united states individually, fifty-fifty the mannequins themselves are tracked, because the mannequins we had custom made per costume. Currently, we would take a still from the film, saying like when the Wolf bends down in front of Red Ridinghood, and then we worked with a mannequin manufacturer who 3D printed these in China, then they're shipped over, painted. The idea was that they're in kind of that primer looking color. So they [the mannequins] kind of disappear, you know, focuses is on the costume.
As far as aircraft, some of the older costumes, Mary Poppins for instance, that has to exist undressed, boxed in an archival box, and shipped independently of the mannequin. Other more robust costumes can travel on the mannequin. They'll go into custom crates where they'll take their accessories and hats. Packed separately. The costume itself can live on a mannequin.
SI: I am curious if there was in terms of the layout and Design changed from the D23. floor plan to this ane?
RM: It was a lot of collaboration with MoPOPp. This is a very unique infinite. At the Expo, nosotros basically had a large rectangle. So what we did is nosotros had the workshop, so people would enter and sympathise what costume blueprint is with Cinderella as kind of a case study. Then they would enter into the main gallery, and we had villains, heroes. And then back on the far side, we had the anti-heroes.
Everything was around the perimeter, except for these platforms, the rotating platform, and they would be in the centre. The reason for that really was only the book of guests that we take come through. We had nigh 20,000 people come through in three days. It's got to be kind of a quick affair.
When you accept a bigger open space, it flows a little scrap easier, right? Here, they're not going to accept that upshot, because of the number of guests that can exist in here at one time. So everything'south a trivial bit more intimate, a trivial chip closer together. With the plexiglass, you can really get up and look at the designs and the details. So yeah, that's probably the biggest alter.
SI: What was the difference in thinking between this exhibit and the earlier Marvel i? In the Curiosity exhibit, there were a lot of architectural components.
RM: This one is really focusing on the costume. We wanted information technology to exist very simple. We wanted the backgrounds to use the verbal aforementioned Pantone colors as the mannequins, then they would kind of fade away. Nosotros use some lighting, just for effect. The [design] focus was only on the costume. They did a great job with merely these little set up pieces because it helps bring them to life. Merely it can very easily get overwhelming. It worked for the Curiosity showroom is experiential and you're in this earth. With this 1, information technology'due south more just focused on the past.
SI: Does your team manage Comic-Con, like when they had a stormtrooper showroom?
RM: So in that location are different divisions within the company that handles things like events and Lucasfilm, especially if it's a newer title. Nosotros will receive assets after production is completely done—advertising, marketing, all that stuff is complete. And then sometimes, and nosotros've had some things at Comic-Con before, only non at the scale of like Lucas.
SI: We hear you have at present adopted the Fox archive?
RM: Yes. Yes. That was astonishing. I'm a cinephile. So having some of those pieces in the collection, it'due south then much fun, especially when y'all're developing an showroom like this is very specific, the Disney studio films, right this exhibit. Just there are other ones we're working on that nosotros can incorporate other material? You know, Fox assets into it or Lucas.
SI: We appreciate the fourth dimension and hopefully we'll shake your hand at some point in the hereafter.
RM: Appreciate it. Cheers.
Worn by Tim Allen in The Santa Clause three: The Escape Clause (2006). Costume Design by Ingrid Ferrin.
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