Dressing The Marvel Universe at WonderCon with Ruth Carter & Elisabeth Vastola /  by Elisabeth Vastola

Saturday Morning Cereal's Dressing the Marvel Universe with Ruth Carter and Elisabeth Vastola! Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world & working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week Grim, Marke, Johnny Heck & Holy Hobbits slip into the wonderful world of costume design from your favorite entries into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In celebration of MCU excellance & the release of Luke Cage season 2 on Netflix & with a special thanks to our friends at Impact24, we continue our exclusive, one-of-a-kind, SMC stamp-of-approval WonderCon 2018 coverage with Academy Award nominated Costume Designer Ruth Carter who made the world of Wakanda come to life in the box office beast that is Black Panther. If that's not enough to keep your tights on, we also sat down with the force behind the costume design of Darvedevil & Jessica Jones on Netflix, Elisabeth Vastola! 

Take a break from the computer generated eye-candy & learn about the real, intricate, brilliant work that goes into making the MCU television and movie properties a reality. The real heroes of these brilliantly clad characters share behind-the-scenes details on how they keep the costumes of the MCU true, and somehow appeal to fans. Trust us- it's not an easy task. 

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/  by Elisabeth Vastola

Cold in July:

"It was actually really useful to have the mullet and the short-lived mustache and the high-waisted, pleated pants and loafers and short-sleeved plaid shirts and matching ties. It all taught me a lot about who this guy was and how he moved. Without putting on the character's clothes, you really don't have a complete sense of how he holds himself and how he moves." 

Michael C. Hall
May 19, 2014
Details.com

Featured interview on Style Bistro, 2015.

Second interview with Style Bistro, 2015.

"Built around nifty yin-yang paired performances by Michael C. Hall and Sam Shepard, along with a huge comic-relief assist from Don Johnson and his fire-engine red Caddy, "Cold in July" is tense, gripping, gruesome, often hilarious, brilliantly engineered and highly satisfying. Its atmosphere is so compelling that one is tempted to haul out cliches about cutting the East Texas heat with a knife, when in fact this movie, like Mickle's earlier features, was made in New York."

"[...] the sheriff convinces Richard and his goody-two-shoes wife (Vinessa Shaw, in a series of fabulously awful outfits) [...] and the two of them tak[e] an increasingly violent road trip to Houston in the company of a private eye called Jim Bob Luke, delightfully underplayed by Don Johnson in a grim demeanor and outrageous cowboy fashions."

Andrew O'Hehir
January 22, 2014
Salon

 

"With the story set in 1989 Mickle has created here a film that does not merely feel like a period piece but like an artifact dropped on our laps from a different time. From the gritty cinematography to costuming, hair and the stellar - and heavily John Carpenter influenced - score, this is a film from another place."

Todd Brown 
January 21, 2014 

Twitch Film

 

"The film embodies the '80s with its setting, score and costuming, right down to Hall's almost-mullet and mustache."

Emily Estep
January 30, 2014

Wegotthiscovered.com 

 

We Are What We Are:

"Russell Barnes' production design and Elisabeth Vastola's costumes cleverly support the evidence of the Parkers as descendants of another time and way of life."

David Rooney
January 26, 2013
The Hollywood Reporter 

 

Angelina Ballerina:

“Elisabeth Vastola’s gorgeous ballet costumes look wonderful in the dance numbers, and her mouse ears and tails help each cast member embody the tiny rodents. “

Shoshana Greenberg
Theateronline.com
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“Adding a beguiling visual impact are the adorable mouse costumes designed by Elisabeth Vastola […]“

Lisa Jo Sagolla
October 9, 2010
Backstage.com
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“Preschool girls, especially those who enjoy dressing in pink and twirling around the room, will adore the choreography […], the frilly costumes […]”

TimeOut New York Kids
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“Based on CG-animated series, Angelina Ballerina The Next Steps on PBS KIDS, Angelina Ballerina the Musical hosts a high energy cast in cute costumes […]”

Sherri Shuber 
October 17, 2010
MomTrends
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“ […] even Angelina herself sounded and looked as I would imagine her in real life.”

Jessica Shyba 
October 2, 2010
Momma’s Gone City
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