{"id":2724,"date":"2025-11-10T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cncurc.org\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:57:37","slug":"mia-goth-explains-hidden-details-in-frankenstein-costumes-that-was-deliberate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cncurc.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/mia-goth-explains-hidden-details-in-frankenstein-costumes-that-was-deliberate\/","title":{"rendered":"Mia Goth Explains Hidden Details In Frankenstein Costumes: \u201cThat Was Deliberate\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The newest adaptation<\/a> of Mary Shelley\u2019s timeless novel Frankenstein<\/em> has captivated audiences, with director Guillermo del Toro\u2019s film being praised for being mostly faithful to the source material. Starring Australia\u2019s own Jacob Elordi as The Creature and Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein, somehow it\u2019s Mia Goth, as Elizabeth Lavenza, who steals the show \u2014 adorned by Tiffany & Co. jewels and 19th Century gowns. Her extensive wardrobe for Frankenstein<\/em> came from the mind of Emmy Award-nominated costume designer<\/a> Kate Hawley, who has worked on projects such as The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power<\/em> and Crimson Peak<\/em>. Goth\u2019s character Elizabeth has an interest in entomology and botany, so Hawley included nods to beetles and other insects through patterns and garment shapes. Along with wasp-waisted tight corsets<\/a>, certain fabrics were also chosen to mimic paper-thin beetle wings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the green dress\u2026 that design was inspired by butterflies, and the patterns on butterfly wings,\u201d Goth tells Refinery29 Australia<\/em>. \u201c[This] was something that Guillermo and Kate were exploring a lot with Elizabeth and [with] all of the costumes, everything was thought through.\u201d To create unique insect-like patterns, Hawley studied both cellular structures and the anatomy of beetles. \u201cIt\u2019s all about echoing those insect and beetle-like qualities, just fitted to the period,\u201d Hawley says in the production notes.<\/p>\n

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Jewellery was also key to defining Goth\u2019s character, with her blue outfit featuring a Tiffany & Co. signature piece from the early 1900s. The Louis Comfort Tiffany necklace is made up of blue glass beetle motifs in a gold setting. \u201cWe wanted to pull pieces that were from the age of Mary Shelley so that you could study the choices our designers were making at that time,\u201d Christopher Young, Vice President and Creative Director of Tiffany Patrimony and Global Creative Visual Merchandising, said in a press video<\/a>. The result is what jewellers describe as blurring the line \u201cbetween jewellery and art\u201d.<\/p>\n

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One of Elizabeth\u2019s most striking dresses is her final look, a white dress where white satin ribbons wrap around her arms. Made to resemble surgical bandages, it pays homage to both Elizabeth\u2019s fate and The Creature\u2019s origin. \u201cThat was deliberate,\u201d Goth says. \u201cThat was there to mimic The Creature and his band aids that he has when he\u2019s first born.\u201d This white dress also features multiple layers of fabric that capture the light in an interesting way, a design element thought through by both the costume designer and director. \u201cGuillermo wanted Elizabeth to be very ethereal, and there\u2019s an iridescence and ephemeral nature to some of those colours and fabrics that helped us [portray this],\u201d Hawley notes.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s also a religious nod in many of Elizabeth\u2019s outfits, particularly seen through the use of bonnets. \u201cReligious language is a big part of Elizabeth\u2019s character, and that bonnet is like a halo,\u201d Hawley explains. \u201cMia has such an amazing, mercurial face \u2014 one of the first fittings we had, we put that bonnet on her, and we put the yellow veil over her, and she just became this other creature.\u201d While Goth jokingly tells R29 <\/em>she couldn\u2019t breathe in her restrictive wardrobe, stepping into the period pieces helped frame her performance as Elizabeth. \u201cThat was helpful, because that\u2019s exactly how a woman in the Victorian world would feel, and it formed how I moved and how I sat,\u201d Goth says. \u201cI felt once I started to see where the costumes were headed, I found my character, Elizabeth, kind of from the outside in this time around. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo, [by] seeing what they were doing with her on the outside, I was then able to kind of figure out what was going on in the inside.\u201d <\/p>\n

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The newest adaptation of Mary Shelley\u2019s timeless novel Frankenstein has captivated audiences, with director Guillermo del Toro\u2019s film being praised for being mostly faithful to the source material. Starring Australia\u2019s own Jacob Elordi as The Creature and Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein, somehow it\u2019s Mia Goth, as Elizabeth Lavenza, who steals the show \u2014 adorned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecotech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cncurc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cncurc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cncurc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cncurc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cncurc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.cncurc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"http:\/\/www.cncurc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cncurc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cncurc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cncurc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cncurc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}