Atonement
{I swear this is my last Keira Knightley post....at the moment. she just seems to be in every period movie with beautiful costumes! :)}
Jacqueline Durran seems to be brought up a lot when it comes to period movies as well (That's because she is AMAZING! KEEP IT UP).
Once again we have Jacqueline Durran to thank for the famous green dress that Keira wears while playing Cecilia in the film Atonement.
The famous emerald green dress worn by Knightley was voted the best costume of all time. So I thought I would focus only on that one piece because so much can be said about it.
Jacqueline designed the entire dress from scratch. Even though the movie was set in the 1930's early 40's, Durran wanted the dress to look purely couture and not the traditional 1930's style.
Joe Wright wanted the dress to be emerald green. Greens used in films are supposed to make the viewer feel uncomfortable, this is why Alfred Hitchcock made his character Tippi Hedren wear a green suit in his film The Birds.
Green is also the color of temptation, which a large character indicator for the movie. Cecilia wears all variations of green after the incarceration of her love Robbie. Green also symbolizes Cecilia's mood at the dinner party as well as Briony's envy. Green comes to symbolize later in the movie Cecilia's tortured life.
The famous emerald green dress worn by Knightley was voted the best costume of all time. So I thought I would focus only on that one piece because so much can be said about it.
Jacqueline designed the entire dress from scratch. Even though the movie was set in the 1930's early 40's, Durran wanted the dress to look purely couture and not the traditional 1930's style.
Joe Wright wanted the dress to be emerald green. Greens used in films are supposed to make the viewer feel uncomfortable, this is why Alfred Hitchcock made his character Tippi Hedren wear a green suit in his film The Birds.
Green is also the color of temptation, which a large character indicator for the movie. Cecilia wears all variations of green after the incarceration of her love Robbie. Green also symbolizes Cecilia's mood at the dinner party as well as Briony's envy. Green comes to symbolize later in the movie Cecilia's tortured life.
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