Tutankhamun Replica Exhibit, Cologne, Germany; June 2011 The website for the exhibit, which travels from Cologne to Brussels and Dublin, can be found here. I’ve visited the exhibit with my son and found it very interesting. Despite the fact that all the things in the exhibit are replicas, they do look very realistic. Also, it’s kind of an advantage to not just be able [...]
Real-Life Research
Movies
Costume in the movies I guess this is where a lot of people got into first contact with costumes: a movie. The costumes shown in such a movie might be more or less accurate… but basically, they are – for some people – the chance to fall in love with the period with which the [...]
Chronicles of Riddick
Costumes of and thoughts and studies on the ‘Chronicles of Riddick’ Note: This is a work in progress. Almost all images I wanted to have here *are* already here, but some of the costume descriptions are still missing my descriptions, which I will have to copy to the appropriate places. This takes some time… as [...]
Titanic – a letter to James Cameron
An open letter to James Cameron Dear Mr. Cameron, while I appreciate your movie ‘Titanic’ from 1997 a lot (otherwise I would not have seen it approximately – and without exaggeration – 200 times, eight of those times in the cinema!) from cinematographic, historical and personal view, I have one question for you. Why, for [...]
Church in Steinkirchen
The church of Steinkirchen (“Stonechurches”) obviously gave its name to the village I used to live in. Originally being built in 1300, it was completely remodeled from 1770-1786 to become a baroque church. This is the look which the inside of the building still has today: However, on the outside of the church there are some [...]
Church in Gruenendeich
A legend says that there had been a church before in a place nearby, being the common church of Grünendeich and Twielenfleth, but it was swept away by floods in the 16th century. The “new” church of Grünendeich was built on ground which was donated to the church by Margareta Peders Dotte Skuthe, a woman from Sweden who lived nearby, [...]
Highlander
When I started studying Ramirez’ (Sean Connery’s) wonderful outfit from “Highlander”, I soon found that there are surprisingly few pictures on the net of this really, really great suit and especially the beautiful Peacock cloak. Well, here’s my will to help people out of the dilemma where to get pictures of that outfit…
Brotherhood o.t. Wolf
The costumes from ‘Le Pacte Des Loups’ (Brotherhood of the Wolf) This movie has so many beautiful costumes which, in my opinion, never got the attention they should have. Here’s my tribute to some of them, sorted by the actor wearing the costume in question. A short note in advance: Looking at the movie one [...]
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love There are very, very few movies out there of which I would say that I’d like to reproduce almost *all* costumes from. Shakespeare in Love is one of them. All the costumes in this movie are *mostly* historical – *mostly*, because they include a vast mix over almost 50 years of Elizabethan [...]
