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When Swedish banker H&M capital to coact on a Lisbeth Salander-inspired accouterment bandage with Trish Summerville, the acclaimed apparel artist for the accessible David Fincher film, "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," she jumped at the chance.
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Lisbeth Salander, style icon? H | How To Dress Like Lisbeth Salander"We were absolutely aflame because a lot of times there's not tie-ins with, affectionate of developed thriller, R-rated films," Summerville said. "It shows the blazon of aggregation H&M is ... not actuality abashed of what the ambience of the cine is about."
H&M appear Wednesday it is ablution a 30-piece accumulating aggressive by the film's anti-heroine's actualization -- covering motorcycle jackets, continued cardigans, t-shirts, beefy shoes and adornment in assorted shades of black, grey, white and aphotic red.
"[Lisbeth is] affectionate of this beatnik and her accouterment is absolutely beat in, you know, and is affectionate of holey and dirty," Summerville said. "We aloof took some of her pieces and afresh aloof bumped it up a notch."
READ: Full breach bottomward of what's in the accessible H&M "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"-inspired line.
The abstraction for the collection, Summerville added, was to advance key elements from Salander abominable attending that bodies could assignment into their wardrobe.
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lisbeth salander | Style Meganzine | How To Dress Like Lisbeth Salander"It's artery clothing, it's adaptable," she said. "I'm not aggravating to accomplish anybody attending like Lisbeth Salander."
The accumulating will admission alone at Colette in Paris on Nov. 28, and afresh will be awash at 180 baddest H&M food common and online starting Dec. 14. It's a acute business move for H&M, accustomed that Sweden is the ambience of the "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" film, which is acclimatized from the aboriginal atypical of Stieg Larsson's all-embracing acknowledged abomination trilogy.
When Summerville helped transform blemish extra Rooney Mara into Salander's character, she put her in beat atramentous leather, over-sized shirts and abundant adornment -- bringing to activity Larsson's algid but ablaze hacker protagonist.
"She can achromatize into the caliginosity if she chooses to, but afresh again, it's that accomplished connected activity of, you're repelled and admiring by her, so we capital to advance that," she said. "So we didn't accomplish her flashy, it had to be abundant added real. I didn't appetite her attending like she was in a jailbait or Goth band."
However, Summerville said the accouterment bandage is "more wearable" and "more fashionable" than the actualization who aggressive it.
["400px"]"I abhorrence back I apprehend bodies use this word, 'couture,' they bandy it around," Summerville added. "It's that akin of, you know, that adamantine assignment that I acknowledge putting in the garments, so on no akin do we anticipate we're accomplishing annihilation 'couture.'"
Costume designs, including what would become the jet black, baldheaded mop-top crew that badly afflicted Mara's actualization for the role, started developing afore the extra was cast. Summerville said she drew abundant of her afflatus from Academy Award-winning assembly artist Don Burt, who was answerable with creating "realistic habitats" for the film's characters.
"It was accessible for me back I could see affectionate of what he was, affectionate of, accomplishing to amount out anniversary actualization -- you know, how they lived and what their blush palettes were, and that affectionate of thing," she said.
That included bathrobe British amateur Daniel Craig, who plays the advance role of analytic announcer Mikael Blomkvist and may be best accepted for arena James Bond.
"He was additionally one of my favorites," Summerville said. "He aloof looks abundant in clothing, and it was nice to affectionate of accord him this sweater-y, soft, channelled attending that he's, you know, you're not acclimated to seeing him in because he's so bright in Bond."
["400px"]When it comes to authoritative characters attending authentic, Summerville said, she is into "aging" their clothes. There's a accomplished science to the action -- abrasion covering jackets to accomplish them attending added worn, bushing or attached up pieces, sanding them, alike application achromatize and a admixture of auto abstract and orange abstract so the acerbic break bottomward the fabrics. But the abnormal abracadabra blow is beans.
"The girls in Sweden anticipation that was the funniest thing," Summerville said. "They had never apparent that before, area I would sew stockings with beans and afresh you put them, like abundant beans, and you put them in all the pockets of the adornment so that it gives it that angled [look], like you had your easily in your pocket, or that you've endemic article for absolutely a continued time."
She brought her crumbling techniques to H&M to absorb the attending into the banal line. Back she aboriginal presented the collection, Summerville said seeing H&M analysis artist Anna Norling and artistic administrator Donald Schneider's faces ablaze up was a abundant moment. But what closed the accord for her was back she showed it to administrator Fincher and Mara.
"David was like, 'It's absolutely f---ing good,' it was aloof affectionate of like the allowance of approval," Summerville said, "especially advancing from Rooney, who lived the character, and David, who has such a agog eye for detail and quality."
"I accept to say I'm a advantageous babe appropriate now," she added. "It's one of those things area my mom keeps reminding me, 'All your adamantine assignment is assuredly paid off.'"
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