#Emma Porteous

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One Dress a Day Challenge

September: Bond Films

The Living Daylights / Maryam d'Abo as Kara Milovy

So help me, but I love 1980s fashion. It's fun, it's bold, and it's not afraid to be extravagant. Plus it has those nods to the 1920s and 1940s, two other decades that I like. And yep, I think this ensemble looks great. Unfortunately, we never see it full-length from the front, so I don't know how long the dress is, but the robe/coat appears to be full-length.

In fairness, I would also have loved the original design (see below), which is more classic in style. Emma Porteous was the credited costume designer for this film, but apparently, much of the work was actually done by her assistant, Tiny Nicholls.

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Aliens (James Cameron, 1986).

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Emma Porteous "Pvt. Hudson" costume from Aliens (1985)

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Timothy Dalton as James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) dir. John Glen Costume design by Emma Porteous

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“FBFX's first film: Judge Dredd”:

Armour for the 15 Judge Hunters, a task force dispatched to capture Judge Dredd in the film, was FBFX’s main responsibility. They also made vambraces, elbow and knee pads, belts and adornments for Stallone and the regular Street Judges.

Danny Cannon told the team that the Judge Hunters should be the “Mercedes of the Judges.” Described by costume designer Emma Porteous as “all in black with black rubber armour and black helmets... really quite awe-inspiring,” bringing the Judge Hunters to life would take some innovation.

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Soy joven, soltera y no tengo ningún poder… “Soy Extraordinaria”

La serie está ambientada en un mundo en donde todos desarrollan un poder cuando cumplen 18 años, todos menos Jen. Va a cumplir 25 y todavía sigue esperando su superpoder. Ni siquiera le preocupa qué poder sea: ¿supervelocidad?, ¿vista láser?, ¿la habilidad de no fallar nunca al conectar un USB?, cualquiera estaría bien.

Como una oruga rodeada de mariposas, Jen siente que no puede avanzar, varada en un empleo sin futuro en una tienda de artículos para fiesta, y saliendo ocasionalmente con Luke, un joven excéntrico que tiene la irritante y maravillosa capacidad de volar. Por suerte, Jen cuenta con su amiga Carrie para evitar que se compadezca demasiado de sí misma. Juntas, comparten un apartamento en el este de Londres, con el novio de toda la vida de Carrie, Kash.

Carrie tiene el poder de comunicarse con los muertos, pero siente que su habilidad la ha eclipsado por completo: ¿acaso a nadie le importa lo que ella tiene para decir?. Kash toma su poder, la habilidad de volver el tiempo atrás, muy seriamente, aunque ocasionalmente lo usa para borrar situaciones embarazosas o momentos en los que le dice exactamente lo que no debería decir a la siempre sufrida Carrie.

El cuarto miembro de la casa es un gato callejero que oculta un secreto sorprendente: parece que hasta los gatos tienen más poder que Jen. A la deriva en un mundo enorme y confuso, y armada solo con un poco de esperanza y mucha desesperación, Jen comenzará un viaje para encontrar su posible superpoder. Al hacerlo, podría llegar a descubrir la alegría de sentirse más o menos bien.

Estreno: 25 de enero de 2023 en Star+.

Escrita y creada por Emma Moran, la serie cuenta con las actuaciones Máiréad Tyers, Sofia Oxenham, Bilal Hasna, Luke Rollason, Siobhan McSweeney, Robbie Gee, Safia Oakley Green y Ned Porteous.

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Costume sketches by Emma Porteous for CLASH OF THE TITANS (’81)

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365 Days of Charity Dingle: Day 253

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Rosemary Harris and Malcolm McDowell in My Life So Far (1999)

Direction: Hugh Hudson

Costumes: Emma Porteus

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emma & ned with their tv choice awards (x)

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in what world was this allowed

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Judge Dredd (Danny Cannon, 1995.).

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Judge Dredd

the costume

Designer: Gianni Versace (early concepts) Emma Porteous (production costume designer)

Though the helmet differs and the colors, overall, are darker, the final version was actually pretty close to the comic book.

Versace sketches:

Judge Dredd (1995)

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James Bond + leather jacket The Living Daylights (1987) Costume design by Emma Porteous

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Dark Disney: The Watcher In The Woods (1981) Review

If you go down to the woods today, you still won't be as surprised as the Disney execs were. Dark Disney: The Watcher In The Woods (1981) #Review

As part of In The Good Old Days Of Classic Hollywood’s Third Annual Bette Davis Blogathon, I’m taking a look at the 1981 family horror movie “The Watcher In The Woods” and kicking off my own mini-series looking at a strange period of movie history when Disney went dark. Towards the end of the 1970s, Walt Disney Pictures made a conscious decision to target the young adult market, a common enough…

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to read list for 2019

currently reading The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane

prose The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss Annihilation (reread) by Jeff Vandermeer Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Peagle A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Mara The Faun and the Woodcutter’s Daughter by Barbara Leonie Picard Nocturnes by John Connollys Orfeo by Richard Power

fairytales, folklore, myth The Merry Spinster by Daniel Mallory Ortberg Fairy Tale is Form by Kate Bernheimer Russian Fairy Tales by Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev  From the Forest by Sara Maitland (reread) The Tale of Tales by Giambattista Basile Marina Warner’s books Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker (reread) The Voyage of Saint Brendan by anonymous The Forest in Folklore and Mythology by Alexander Porteous Otherworld Castles in Middle English Arthurian Romance Chapter by Muriel A. Whitaker The Development of the Idea of Hades in Celtic Literature by Eleanor Hull

landscapes, nature Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane Underland by Robert Macfarlane The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane The Overstory by Richard Powers The Future of Ice by Gretel Ehrlich The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich Empire of Ice by by Gretel Ehrlich My Abandonment by Peter Rock Wilderness by Carl Sandburg The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing H is For Hawk by Helen Macdonald True North: Travels in Arctic Europe by Gavin Francis Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland by Sarah Moss Weird Ecology: On The Southern Reach Trilogy by David Tompkins Dark Ecology by Paul Kingsnorth Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Dark Ecology Project In Search of Sacred Places: Looking for Wisdom on Celtic Holy Islands by Daniel Taylor Discovering the Vernacular Landscape by John Brinckerhoff Jackson Politics of Nature by Bruno Latour The World without Us by Alan Weisman The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins  by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing The Natural Contract by Michael Serres Molecular Red, Theory for the Anthropocene by McKenzie Wark

religion Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid Macculloch Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West

scandinavia The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose by Kirsten Wolf Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland by Sarah Moss The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Shelley

‘Giving up the Ghost’ by Emily Urquhart interviews with Olafur Eliasson Cynthia Cruz, from ‘Justine, a Prophet: Blindness and Vision in Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’’ “Angela Carter’s wolf tales”, Bidisha Diane Purkiss, Producing the Voice, Consuming the Body: Women Prophets of the Seventeenth Century Anne Michaels, from Fugitive Pieces

read Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue