
You can watch Cinderella on when it releases on March 13 of 2015. The new Cinderella film is directed by Kenneth Branagh and will star Helena Bonham Carter, Cate Blanchett, and Lily James as Cinderella. “I was amazed that I was allowed to do it-that nobody wondered how they were going to reproduce it for children. The film will stay true to the animated version for the most part except in some minor details. “So besides the fact that Cinderella’s slipper is crystal, the shape of the last makes it impossible to walk in,” Powell says. The film starred Lily James as Cinderella and also featured other actors like Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, Stellan Skarsgård, Holliday Grainger, Derek Jacobi, and Helena Bonham Carter. That shoe had a five-inch heel and no platform. “How could I live up to this? Then I realized I could use that fear to show me how Cinderella would feel at that moment.”Ĭinderella’s signature slipper, meanwhile, is made of crystal, designed in collaboration with Swarovski, and based upon a shoe from the 1890s that Powell found in a museum in Northampton. “When I first put it on, I felt both empowered and scared,” James recalls. Lily James (Lady Rose of Downton Abbey) stars as the ultimate little girl’s fantasy figure, while an elaborately skirted Cate Blanchett channels Joan Crawford as Cinderella’s evil stepmother.Īs for the Dress-the magical raiment that arrives courtesy of Cinderella’s scatterbrained fairy godmother (Helena Bonham Carter) on the eve of the royal ball-it’s a cerulean gown with a voluminous skirt composed of more than a dozen layers of gossamer-fine silk in different shades of pale blue, turquoise, and lavender. “And the good, kind person is always the most challenging.” Disney’s live-action Cinderella, directed by Kenneth Branagh and due out in March, gave her plenty of room to stretch in both directions. “The bad guy is always the most fun to dress,” admits three-time Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell. Who would Judy Garland’s Dorothy be without her blue gingham pinafore (Innocence!) and red sequined slippers (Temptation!), or Jean Harlow without her liquid satin gowns? (Both women’s looks were created by Adrian, the wardrobe king of Hollywood’s Golden Age.) Audrey Hepburn’s ethereal lightness was magnified a hundredfold by Hubert de Givenchy’s chiffon confections, while ice princess Catherine Deneuve discovered a deep vein of perversity within her thanks to Yves Saint Laurent’s costumes for Belle de Jour. About halfway through the movie, Ella’s wicked step-sisters give her the nickname Cinderella, because she has cinder.

In the new version, her name has been changed to Ella. In the 1950 movie, the princess’s first name is Cinderella. But then, a young man called Kit changes her life forever. The biggest change between 1950 Cinderella vs 2015 Cinderella is the name change. There’s a mysterious alchemy at work in the best costume design for film, a secret marriage uniting clothing, character, and a director’s vision. The titular character, a beautiful, kind, optimistic young girl who, after her parents die, becomes a scullery maid under the thumb of her stepfamily. Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell reinvents the glass-slipper splendor of Cinderella.
