Naergi's Costuming Site

Picture shows Nicole Kidman as Satine, wearing the gown One day my friend Katrin asked me to make her a wedding gown. Which I did 😉 The gown I created is a fairly accurate reproduction of Satine’s red gown from Moulin Rouge. I used what I think to be the original fabric – double-sided silk […]

 I must say that I haven’t made an Elven dress for almost two years – before that, I’ve made dozens (see this gallery to see them all). However, when I was asked to actually design a gown from scratch, and only the main colors – red and gold – were given, I did so. At […]

I was invited to attend the European Premier of ‚Fast and Furious‘ (the fourth part of the series) and had to make a proper dress (or rather, costume!) for that occasion. So I took some yards of white silk satin and painted the cars from the previous parts to it, using some sort of wax […]

Note: If I had to do this jacket again, I would do it with this fabric from Spoonflower (which, at the time when I made this jacket, wasn’t even in existence!). It is more accurate (pattern-wise), even if it is printed, not embroidered; and strongly resembles the embroideries on Margaret Layton’s jacket (which is the […]

– this is currently just a collection of images – Appropriate, reprinted (which basically means – the pattern is correct; but the material is not, since they’re just printed, and not ‚voided velvet‘ – but they’ll create „the look“ of the gown…) fabrics for Eleonora Di Toledo’s portrait gown, in various color versions, are available […]

I have to admit that I was obsessed with this gown from the moment I saw it in the Cast Courts of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. I spent a lot of research on it after returning from my trip, and eventually even made a sculpture for SecondLife that looked like the tomb. Then, one […]

The „Arnolfini Marriage“ gown Subjects on this page (click or just scroll down to see them all): Overview of the portrait gown Making the dress The finished gown Differences between my reproduction and the portrait gown Statistics for the dress Links to other reproductions of this gown that I’ve found on the net Overview of […]

Navigation for this part of the page: [catlist categorypage=yes] As the Cranach gown is shown in so many variations in all his pictures, I’ve decided not to make an exact copy of one of those gowns but take bits and pieces that I like best from all the portraits – and combine them in a […]

Navigation for this part of the page: [catlist categorypage=yes] A gazillion people have already studied the Cranach gown, so I don’t expect that I will come up with something new. However, I have discovered something that I have not seen come up in any other Cranach study, so I thought I should write it down. […]

Navigation for this part of the page: [catlist categorypage=yes] I’ve decided to start with some basic measures that I would need to actually make the gown.. As explained in the planning of my ‚Hardwick‘ gown, I’ve first laid a digital grid over the painting of the ‚Magdalena‘ so that I could estimate the actual width […]