Fabric pattern for visual storytelling One of my favorite movies is "The Last Emperor" (1987), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. One of the reasons is the patterned and textured costume designs (by James Acheson) that, despite the relatively low costume budget (compared to that of a major Hollywood film), still makes me want to reach out to the screen and touch them, after 27 years. The challenge was how to unify the different period costumes (many of which were antiques) in order to tell the story. The key was on the fabric patterns used. One of those patterns is this Escher-like tiling: This pattern is worn by persons of power in the Qing Dynasty scenes, as seen above, and on the shoulder cape of Dowager Empress Ci Xi (portrayed here with relish by Lisa Lu): Aside from being a trim for caps and capes, this pattern even doubles as faux mountain pattern scale armor for the imperial guards, as seen in this picture from The Foxling blog : A different pattern –
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