Sue Blane

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Sue Blane
Born
Susan Margaret Blane

(1949-04-23) 23 April 1949 (age 75)
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationCostume designer
Known forThe Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Susan Margaret Blane,

RDI (born 23 April 1949) is an English costume designer. She is best known for her costume designs for both The Rocky Horror Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.[1] With her designs for Rocky Horror, Blane is credited for creating the look that became the template for punk rock fashion.[2]

Life and career

Blane studied costume design at Wolverhampton College of Art and at the Central School of Art and Design in London, finishing in 1971.[1]

Fashion influenced by The Rocky Horror Show

Before

Citizen's Theatre in Glasgow, where they were both involved in a production of Jean Genet's The Maids. Blane also designed the costumes for other Rocky Horror productions, including the 1975 Broadway production and film, and created the costume designs for the sequel, Shock Treatment (1981).[3]

Since

Don't Dream It", making the character Frank N. Furter seem to say, "I wanted to be dressed by Sue Blane" (instead of "dressed just the same," as written).[4]

Blane also created the costume designs for

Disney's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Berlin): The Love for Three Oranges (Opera North/ENO); The Three Musketeers (Young Vic); Capriccio (Staatsoper, Berlin); Guys and Dolls (RNT); Into the Woods (Old Vic / West End); Porgy and Bess (Glyndebourne) and La Fanciula del West, with Plácido Domingo (La Scala, Milan).[5]

Sue's many production design credits include The Relapse, voted Best Design by What's On readers, (RNT), The Nutcracker and Alice in Wonderland for the

Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal Dramaten Theatre, Stockholm and RSC; Cabaret (Donmar Warehouse); Sylvia (Birmingham Royal Ballet); King John, The Learned Ladies, and Antony and Cleopatra all for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Barber of Seville (Scottish Opera); The Duenna and Thieving Magpie (Opera North); Christmas Eve (ENO) and Lee Miller (Minerva Chichester). Her designs also feature in a new ballet for English National Ballet based on Oscar Wilde's novella of The Canterville Ghost conceived and choreographed by Will Tuckett
.

Honours

She was nominated for a 1997

BAFTA nomination for Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract (1982). Her current designs can be seen in Dance of the Vampires in Vienna, directed by Roman Polanski.[6]

Blane received an

MBE (Members of the Order of the British Empire) in 2006.[1][7]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Sue Blane Gets MBE from Queen Elizabeth". The Rocky Horror Preservation Foundation. Archived from the original on 4 June 2007. Retrieved 4 June 2007.
  2. ISBN 978-1495007477
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  3. ^ "Information about Blane's design credits". TimeWarp fan club. Retrieved 28 September 2007.
  4. ^ Morrisroe, Patricia. "Interview with Blane". Rocky Music. Retrieved 8 December 2006.
  5. ^ "Photo of Blane". Rocky Music. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Profile of Blane". Cosmo's Factory. Retrieved 21 November 2003.
  7. ^ "Information about Blane". Rocky Horror Vacations: Orlando. Midnight Madness ORG. October 2001. Retrieved 19 August 2004.

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