• Directed by Kenneth Branagh

• Produced by Simon Kinberg, Allison Shearmur and David Barron

• Music by Patrick Doyle

• Edited by Martin Walsh

• Release dates- February 13, 2015 (Berlin) March 13, 2015(United States)

• Production company- Walt Disney Pictures and Kinberg Genre

• Distributed by Walt Disney Studio and Motion Pictures

• Costume Designer- Sandy Powell

• Budget- $95 million

• Box office- $543.5 million.

ELLA’SPEACEFULKINGDOM

PROMISE TOALWAYS FACEDIFFICULTIES

WITH COURAGEAND KINDNESS

ELLA’SFATHER

REMARRIES

CRUEL ANDJEALOUS

STEP FAMILYFATHER

DIES

ELLA GOTTHE NAME

‘CINDERELLA’

FIRST MEETINGOF PRINCE KIT

AND CINDERELLATHE BALL

ANNOUNCEMENT

ELLA’SFAIRY

GODMOTHER

THE BALL

DANCE

MYSTERYPRINCESS

WHO WEARGLASS SLIPPERS

ELLA AND KITARE MARRIED

SUMMARY

Lily James as

Ella/"Cinderella”

Eloise Webb as10 year-old Ella,

Richard Maddenas Prince

Kit,

Cate Blanchett 

asStep

Mother

Helena Bonham Carter

as The Fairy Godmother

Stellan Skarsgårdas he Grand Duke

Holliday Grainger& Sophie McSheraas two step sisters

Derek Jacobias The King,

Hayley Atwellas Ella's mother

Ben Chaplin asElla's father

COSTUME DESIGNERS

SANDY POWELLBORN- 7 April, 1960NATIONALITY- BritishOCCUPATION- Costume Designer

Powell began working on concepts for the characters’ looks almost two years before principal photography began in the summer of 2013.

She even used 1.7 million Swarovski crystals for the gowns worn by Cinderella (Lily James), the fairy godmother (Helena Bonham Carter), and the wicked stepmother, Lady Tremaine (Cate Blanchett). 

MAHEEN KHANBORN- Karachi, SindhNATIONALITY- PakistaniOCCUPATION- Costume Designer &

Fashion DesignerAWARDS- Fashion Designer for

fashion labels like The Embroidery House, Maheen and Gulabo

USP- Embroidery

She did some embroidery for the film, specifically for Prince Charming, the King and the Grand Duke. The coats for Cinderella are all hand-crafted, although there are some jobs that have required machine embroideries.

Founded in 1895 in Austria, Swarovski designs, creates, and markets high-quality crystal product collections such as jewelry, accessories, decorative items for the home, ornaments, and figurines.

Swarovski has a global reach and showcases its sparkling crystal products via a network of own boutiques and retail partners, as well as the Swarovski website and Online Shops.

Lady Tremaine

(ELLA’S EVILSTEP

MOTHER)COSTUMES

THE BLACK BODICE-

The bodice is a chartreuse that looks yellow in certain light. The bodice isn’t just sparkly, it is sequined. The sequined fabric is then covered with black velvety flowers. The sequins are also arranged in neat rows, and each one is quite small and flat. 

The contrasting flower prints in the dresses worn by Cinderella's stepmother Lady Tremaine (Cate Blanchett). Her outfit consists of 3 main parts:

THE BLACK UNDERSKIRTThe underskirt is a tight black velvet column skirt with a slit in the back. The narrow underskirt with a full skirt and tight bodice is a silhouette that appears in many of her outfits.

THE GREEN AND BLACK OVERSKIRTThe overskirt consists of multiple layers. There is a green base fabric (silk satin or taffeta) that is covered by a layer of black organza, which is decorated with beautiful chartreuse flowers. There is a black border across the bottom which is just the organza folded over and appearing darker, and it appears that the organza and green fabric are flat-lined together.

The inside is also green, instead of being lined with black organza. Given the yardage required, double-faced silk satin was used.

There is only one layer of green satin, a layer of organza with velvet flowers, then a final layer of organza on top of that.

LADY TREMAINE’S ACCESSORIESShe wears a pair of black suede gloves; a black velvet scarf; gold and citrine brooch, earrings, and bracelet; a veil; black and green high-heeled boots; and a dramatic hat.

The hat is semi-transparent and decorated with birds and flowers.

The eight-piece Tremaine collection — including a necklace ($1,690), cuff ($599), earrings ($349) and ring ($299) — is reminiscent of the jewels seen on Cinderella's wicked stepmother, Lady Tremaine (played by Cate Blanchett), in the movie.Powell, who previously collaborated with Swarovski for her Oscar-winning costumes in Shakespeare in Love, wanted to design pieces that could be worn in real life.Swarovski's collection was ispired by Cate's character, Lady Tremaine.

Swarovski's Tremaine collection features a gold leaf and emerald motif similar to the jewelry worn by Blanchett's character in the film. Swarovski's Tremaine collection features a gold leaf and emerald motif similar to the jewelry worn by Blanchett's character in the film. 

COSTUME OF

STEP SISTERS

The stepsisters’ dresses were inspired by the 1950s.

CRINOLINE CORSET

The stepsisters were supposed to be accessorised with hats, pretty shoes and heels, umbrellas, boxes and baskets, very much decorated fans with fur wires etc.

FAIRY GODMOTHER

COSTMEs

Helena Bonham Carter's exquisite fairytale gown was encrusted with 126,000 crystals and star-pendants to evoke a dream-like illumination to the Fairy Godmother's enchanting dress.

She is decked out in a fantastical 18th century style gown with a wide ruff made from layers of filmy ice-blue fabric. The shimmering and floaty material transforms her into a dainty fairy, while the luxuriousness of the gown conveys the regal quality of the character.

Helena Bonham Carter literally lights up the screen as the Fairy Godmother — in a silver dress with 4,000 LED bulbs and have a 15lb battery pack on my bum.— and then proceeds to transform Cinderella into a fairy-tale princess.

A crinoline is a stiffened or structured petticoat designed to hold out a woman's skirt, popular at various times since the mid-19th century.

CRINOLINE- SKIRT CAGE

CORSETThe under garment that boost up the chest area and gives up a cone shaped figure. The most common and well-known use of corsets is to slim the body and make it conform to a fashionable silhouette.

FAIRY GODMOTHER MAKEUPThe Fairy Godmother makeup came from an old photo from the '20s. It was a hand-tinted photo with the big dark eyes and peachy look. They had big perfect teeth made for Helena which changed her look quite drastically.

For the Fairy Godmother, the foundation they used was a very pale foundation and took it all over her body so she had this flawless finish, but they didn't glitter her up the way they did Cinderella because her dress was lighting up and there was so much going on with the dress and she had a huge wig so the amount of flesh showing was quite restricted. So it just they keep it very clean and very pure-looking and open and lovely.

THEGOLDENCARRIAG

E

First and foremost, the carriage is large, very ornate, and looks like the real thing. From the rubber clad wheels to the disc brakes, Cinderella’s Golden Coach was built to function, with details that makes this coach more than just a  movie prop:It’s 10 feet tall, 17 feet in length, and weighs nearly two tons!

The coache’s cabin is suspended by leather straps and curved leaf springs.  We saw them in action when two “Princesses” placed their feet on the steps.  The coach rocked softly–until a cast member politely asked the princesses to please not touch the coach.

CINDERELLA’S TRANSFORMATION(the ball dance DRESS)

3 Miles of thread in the hems

250 Metres of fabric in each dress

10,000 Swarovski crystals hand-applied to the dresses

20 Minutes it took to get the dress on.

IT LOOKS LIKE LAYERS AND LAYERS AND LAYERS OF BEAUTIFUL FABRIC-That’s exactly what it is! Obviously, we knew that it had to be big, because it’s a ball gown. She did not want it to look like a big heavy old period costume; She wanted it to look as light as air—really light. Especially thought about what it would look like when she was running away.

CONSTRUCTION-It’s made of several layers. All the top layers are the finest fabric. The top layer of the gown is silk crepeline, a very lightweight, fine silk. The layers underneath are made up of a synthetic called yumissima, an incredibly light (and very expensive, about £150 a metre) material which floats when thrown in the air. If you actually threw a piece of it up in the air, it just floats. They are all different colors. Together, it produces a blue, but if you look carefully, you can see blues and greens and lavenders and lilacs.

VOLUME UNDERNEATH-First of all, there’s a crinoline over a wire cage. Then there are petticoats with hundreds and hundreds of miles of frills to give it the volume and the lightness. On top of that are the really fine layers of fabric. Of course, she’s wearing the corset as well to give her that fantastic shape.

TINY WAIST-Her waist is that small. I’ve read people talking about the Cinderella ball gown and thinking that actually all the photographs had been Photoshopped because her waist is so small. But it’s really her waist. The volume of the skirt creates an illusion, really. Her waist is small, but it looks even smaller because of the volume of the skirt.

WEIGHT OF GOWN-No, the whole thing is light. It had to be light because she did so much in it.PROCESS TIME TO FINISH TO DESIGN THAT GOWN-It took a team of 20 people 4,000 hours to create eight versions of this very special gown. Cinderella – played by Lily James – has to dance and run away into the night, and Sandy Powell wanted the dress to look as light as air, a watercolour in motion. It took probably four or five months. They had to find the right fabrics, try different shapes, and try different ways of doing it and different fittings. Sandy powell said- I was lucky enough to have that amount of time to develop an idea, really.

THE CORSETA tight, stiff piece of clothing worn by women under other clothing to make their waists appear smaller.

A woman's close-fitting boned supporting undergarment that is often hooked and laced and that extends from above or beneath the bust or from the waist to below the hips and has garters attached.

Final touches: The detachable ‘bertha’, which topped the fairytale gown, was decorated with dozens of hand-painted butterflies made by Hiroshima artist Haruka Miyamoto.

A crinoline is a stiffened or structured petticoat designed to hold out a woman's skirt, popular at various times since the mid-19th century.

Using the white silk organza, dyed Turquoise, make your triangles with 70cm sides. This is attached approximately half way up the foundation petticoat.

Frilling: The petticoat had flounced frillsat the hem, with a second three-layeredorganza petticoat placed over the top.Team effort: The dressmakers work on the petticoat. In total, Lily worea chemise, corset, crinoline, petticoats and the dress – five kilos in total.

THEGLASS

SLIPPERS

 This slipper is constructed entirely of Swarovski crystals and based upon a shoe from the 1890s that Powell found in a museum in Northampton. 

The slipper was a 3-piece hand cut Swarovski crystal. The slipper “took a long time. Swarovski provided 1.7 million crystals.

And approximately 150 hours were spent developing the perfect slipper, with six versions made before the final model was decided on.

Sandy Powell clearly paid attention to detail, like the butterfly bow on the slippers, and it totally paid off.

Cinderella’s foot wear was of crystal, it was never made to be worn, but simply play a part as a prop.

"The white pants was just to go with the white jacket in the ball scene," Powell says. "The light color pant is really not unusual for a 19th century man.  They would quite often wear sort of off white or a cream trouser -- a normal thing to wear with a black jacket even. The fact that I did make the suit tight white trousers like riding pants because I gave him white boots the whole time because I liked the boots.  You have to have something that works with the boots.  And fortunately Richard had a nice, tight white pant."

PRINCE KITCOSTUME

THE WEDDING SCENE

WEDDINGGOWN

A team of seamstresses meticulously cut, sewed, and stitched together the elegant, to-the-floor–length gown for nearly a month. Once it was assembled, the frock was given to the artists who intricately hand painted flowers onto the gown. For the wedding dress, costume designer Sandy Powell, made a long sleeve, silk organza gown with enchanting floral detailing.

In total, the wedding dress took 16 people over 550 hours to make! That’s the equivalent of almost 23 days.

According to Powell, it couldn’t be bigger or just the same shape in another color, so she decided to go with a late 19th century look (instead of the mid 19th century look of the ball gown) so that it would be more streamlined. She wanted it to be more grownup and sophisticated. She didn’t want it to be completely white and opted to add hand-painted flowers inspired by 1950s dresses.

Cinderella's Prince Charming Costume -inspired by Richard Maddens character in Cinderella 2015.

The outfit comprises of:Tail Coat: Pale blue velvet, decorated with gold cording, beading and gold buttons. Made to fit the prince measurement this coat is masculine, detailed. The epaulets enhance the squared shoulder look and are detailed with lace and buttons.

Jodphur: True dressage style jodphurs made from form fitting quality ponti jersey, with seamed leg details

Sash: decorated with ribbon and carved leather medallion.

HAIRSTYLES

It took dozens of antique hair pins, handfuls of Swarovski crystals.Hairstylist Carol Hemming had done a very good job in the film.For the first half, at least lily was shown up to set with her hair in braids, as it looked young and different from all the other characters. "Her hairstyle for the ball is based on a test shot of Vivien Leigh from Gone With the Wind, and so weaved and twisted the top layer of James's hair to create the illusion of a tiara.

Hemming pinned Blanchett's hair into a victory roll, using combs to secure the various hats and feathers (all fitted, sewn, and dyed for the film).

For the stepsisters, they pin-curled the hair using rags, went over the ringlets with a curling iron, and secured their updos with vintage tortoiseshell pins.

Bonham Carter's hair (a Jean Harlow–blonde, curly wig), her teeth (a set of hyper-perfect dentures), and her nails (painted in a iridescent, frosty polish).

The production of the movie, is also releasing various promotion events related to the movie. Especially, cosmetic and fashion brands made limited edition products collaborating with the movie. The cosmetic brand, MAC has released the ‘MAC Cinderella Collection’ inspired by the movie, as they collaborated with ‘Maleficent’ last 2014. There was also an event giving a movie ticket of ‘Cinderella’ to the customers, who purchase over certain amount. The Japanese cosmetic brand KOSE has also released Cinderella inspired products.

Additionally, recently Disney has showed the reinterpreted designs of Cinderella’s crystal shoes, designed by Ferragamo, Jimmy Choo, Charlotte Olympia, and many other famous fashion designers.

PROMOTION

The design of the Palace itself was inspired by the Louvre, the Palais Garnier opera house and the Palace of Versailles.More than 450 extras were used for the ballroom scene.The set used 5,000 oil candles which had to be lit by hand.

THE PALACE

A SECRET GARDEN