Lady Macbeth Paper Costume Project

In our final term at Studio 58, under the guidance of costume designer Mara Gottler, all production students get to create costume designs for a show of our choosing and pick one of those designs to then create a life sized version of that design out of only paper. I decided to do my fourth term set and costume designs for Macbeth in a stylized, late 1870's, Victorian world, and make a life-sized version of Lady Macbeth's first, introductory costume.

For this show, I didn’t want the costumes to distract from the story and what’s being said so I stayed with classic mid 1800s silhouettes, and a tricolor palette, with black representing immorality, White representing purity or innocence and red representing blood. Macbeth, being a soldier and murderer, he is almost entirely in black while Lady Macbeth is in mostly white because she never kills anyone except herself but still has that immorality in her that is foreshadowed in the black details on her gown. You can read a full rational of Lady Macbeth’s costume design Here and you can see my other costume designs for Macbeth Here.