Character Design > Marble Cities > The Servant Realized
The look of the rendering ended up reading too "old" on actress, Cassie Neumann, who delivered an incredibly moving performance as The Servant. We replaced the skirt with a longer and more bohemian looking skirt, which was a lovely green gradient fade with floral embroidery and light sprinkling of sequins. There was a very large table in the show, which was the main set piece of the show, and characters would jump up and down from it. The jumps down demanded a longer skirt. But the shape of the second skirt ended up not being just right. The shawl had been exchanged for a lush green scarf with a beautiful Eastern print. But the floral shirt didn't seem to work either. I ended up finding a dull longer and fuller green skirt by a stroke of luck. It still retained the tiered quality that the skirt in the rendering had. The top was exchanged for a flow-y, gauzy white top that completely changed Cassie's body language. The final look flowed gorgeously behind her body with the movement in the show. And it still retained the floral motif, because the center front section contained a small garden of embroidered flowers. In the end, I think the final look served the original idea I had even better than the rendering and still retained a cape-like quality.
Photo ©Kevenn T. Smith 2012.