This year I got the chance to work with the Royal New Zealand Ballet on their production of The Nutcracker
I made 2 of these Pohutukawa fairy tutus, as well as a few other various costumes.
RNZB The Nutcracker by Val Caniparoli 2018
Photographer - Stephen A'Court
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Pattern making project
We were given the basic design and fabric, were allowed to pick the accent colour, and the sleeve and collar style.
Photography by Phillip Merry
Modeled by Emily Brady
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Official photo’s of my 18th Century dress
Photography by Phillip Merry
Modeled by Tara Erenskjold
Progress photos at
http://vicdustrael.tumblr.com/post/159773504189/making-a-late-18th-century-ensemble-for-the
http://vicdustrael.tumblr.com/post/161537120704/completing-my-late-18th-century-ensemble-for-the
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Cute dress I threw together. Made from a thrifted tablecloth, a sheet for lining, and net curtain petticoat
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Memento Mori
Full range line-up of my designs for my end of year project at Uni.
To start we did a word association exercise and then pulled 3 or those words out of a bag to use as our concept, my words were Victorian, Hourglass, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy. From there I brainstormed further and pulled out the concept of Death and the awareness of Mortality, as the Victorian's had an obsession with death and the hourglass is often related to the Grim Reaper. From the Sci-Fi/Fantasy I looked at warrior women and took some detailing from the armour. Some of the pieces are more androgynous then my normal, as Death doesn't care if you are a male or female; and I used the sheer chiffon to demonstrate the mysteriousness of Death, as no-one truly knows what happens.
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All designs © Tamara Mills
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Victoria Dustrael
This is a more finalised version of my OC, Victoria Douglas. She has Multiple Personalities, where each personality belongs to a different era. Her real name is Victoria Douglas, but each personality goes by a different variation of this, to suit the era. In her modern-day personality, she goes by Tori Douglas and is a fairly normal girl of 22, who is into the alternative and Goth scene. Vickii D is her retro, Rockabilly personality from the fifties, and Victoria Dustrael is a young Victorian lady of the upper middle class.
I’ve still got to work out some of the more specific details and backstories of each ‘character’.
This version of Victoria is a bit more Neo-Victorian punk and stylised then her normal.
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Elwynrind
She has a (kinda lame) back-story as to why she's so dark looking but still saves the world. Something to do with her being a demon/reaper, but she falls in love with a human, who is then brutally murdered, so, because she has to drain human souls to live, kinda vampire styles, she spends her time tracking down murderers and bringing them the death they have brought upon innocents. She lives in a post-apocalyptic Victorian world.
Her design is loosely based on the concept art from World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
She is wearing a deep blue Corset, with bone rib-cage armour, deep green skirt, which is pulled up with (very) large rubies, which have feathers and beads dangling from them, an asymmetric pig-skin leather underskirt with fishing net? which has a skull caught in it, with more feathers and beads.
She is also supposed to carry a lantern.
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Dress design based on Lucretia from Spartacus for my Mum
Red Taffeta base, lightly boned, with dark blue Chiffon, draped over.
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