Seraphina Picquery Costume from Fantastic Beasts

My wife and I are working on a Seraphina Picquery costume that we're trying to have done for the January HP Celebration in Orlando. While she was sewing on Percival, I started on what we refer to as the breast plate. First I cut up gold sparkle ribbon per a sketch I created which was cut up as a template and glued to the back of the ribbon using stencil adhesive. I then cut out the pieces, applied fray check to all the cut edges and when this set, I glued these gold pieces to a piece of teal fabric:


I did the same for blue ribbon. It's not quite the right shade, but was the best I could find:


The pieces were numbered.


Using another template I stitched and glued on strings of teal beads:


My wife laid out the pattern for the dress on an old sheet as a test:


The sleeve needed an extra seem on top for the split at the elbow:


As far as we can determine the edge trim will be made up of three different trims. The first one sewn on was gold baby rick-rack:


The sleeve is lined with gold tone organza:


The dress so far:

The material was a teal paisley fabric we found at JoAnns.

Of course now that the movie is out and there are high res images available, it's pretty obvious the breast plate was actually done as beadwork. Must have been a lot of work!
ATL

Fantastic!

Egon Spengler said:

Fantastic!

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Egon Spengler Thanks!

For the breastplate, the detail is done but it still needs to be lined and trimmed and I believe the plan is to add snaps to attach it to the dress so it can be removed for when the dress needs to be cleaned.

Beside the breastplate are some of the items used to make it.

The second trim on the sleeve is a 1/16" (2mm) gold cord which is attached using Beacon fabric adhesive.


The third trim which is a 1/16" teal "rattail" cord was applied with Dritz fabric adhesive :


... and now the gold beads sewn on one at a time.:wacko


ATL

great tailoring

To me the trim work down the front of the dress looks to be a series of a alternating blue and gold cords:


Before actually attaching cords with fabric adhesive to the costume fabric, I figured I better try prototyping the concept first to make sure it's sized and looks right.


...use lots of Fray Check!

ATL

While watching the movie for the 3rd time, we realized that the trim (and the breast plate) is all bead work. So I bought 1700 9mm bugle beads:


Also started on the headdress. We found a black head turban thing and an old "snakeskin" belt which I applied imitation gold leaf:


To this belt I stitched a shaped piece of sheepskin. I applied amber shellac to the back of it to provide stiffness. The front will be painted a metallic gold and the back a semi-flat black. To this we'll add the flowers and the bird.


Work continues on the bodice which is 2 layers of organza.


ATL

Test fitting the various dress pieces:


And if this isn't the gaudiest thing I've ever made...






ATL

Here's the "over skirt".


Seven more strands of beads and some sew-on snaps to hold it all together and we should be finished!



ATL

Amazing work! I'm currently making this costume too, and I'm wondering which butterwick pattern you used for the dress?