Concepts Behind the “High School Musical 3” Costumes
February 25, 2009 by Julie Bonner
My friend Nikki at Celeb Look, had the opportunity to talk to Caroline B. Marx, who was the costume designer for “High School Musical 3”. She shared with Nikki her concepts behind the designs and also gave her some tips on what’s hot for spring and promo season.
On whether it was easier to expand on the existing characters or design for the new ones: “The thing is that you want to make every single person different. It’s interesting. Normally when I go into a film they don’t exist. I’m the one who comes up with the idea. I do research and kind of look into their character, their personality, where they came from. With the new characters it was definitely like that. In Jimmy, to me, the youngest, hippest kids out have the Emo vibe with the skater mixed in. I chose really cool, up and coming designers like Fyasko and Space Craft with Draven and Vans shoes. That’s what the younger, skater/surfer kids are wearing! With Jemma, I kind of gave her an English school girl look. Really cute and conservative jumpers and blazers. We used a lot of Rugby and Ralph Lauren, American Eagle, argyle sweaters, stuff like that. At the end, in the extended version, you’ll see her in a full blown English riding costume.”
This was a great interview and if you loved the costumes in HSM3 and want to know more about what all went in to create them, then read the rest of the interview:
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