Madeline Fontaine

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Madeline Fontaine (born before 1982) is a French costume designer .

Life

Madeline Fontaine, who grew up in Paris, first attended an art school. During the shooting of Jean Becker's film L'été meurtrier in Provence in 1982 , she assisted the costume designer Thérèse Ripaud in making costumes and in finding shops with old-fashioned clothing. Through this filming, she got to know the creative possibilities of a costume designer and then decided to work as an assistant for costume designers such as Michèle Richer and Rosalie Varda, for the film Le matelot 512 by René Allio , Sylvie Gautrelet for Jean de Florette by Claude Berri and Agnès Nègre in the Work film La neige et le feu by Claude Pinoteau .

For the first time she was solely responsible as a costume designer for the costumes designed by Jean Paul Gaultier for the film La cité des enfants perdus by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro . Further collaborations with Jeunet followed. She first became known to a wider audience in 2002 with the film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain and her first nomination for the César . For the next joint film with Jeunet, Un long dimanche de fiançailles , she received the César for best costume in 2005 . In 2009 she received her second César for the film Séraphine by Martin Provost , and she was nominated six more times.

For the Franco-Canadian television series Versailles , which is considered to be the most expensive series project ever realized in Europe, she designed costumes from the 17th century.

With the film Jackie by Pablo Larraín , Madeline Fontaine showed her precision in mimicking 1960s fashion, including color adjustments to match the shades of gray in contemporary television reports, for which she won the 2016/17 BAFTA Award , Circuit Community Award , Critics' Choice Movie Award and the Satellite Award . She was also nominated for the Seattle Film Critics Award , Phoenix Film Critics Society Award , Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award , Costume Designers Guild Award and the Oscar for Best Costume Design .

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GFY Interview: Madeline Fontaine, Costume Designer for Versailles, accessed on October 10, 2018
  2. ^ Madeline Fontaine, créatrice des costumes Versailles, accessed on October 10, 2018
  3. ↑ How Jackie Kennedy Became a Fashion Icon. In: kurier.at. January 30, 2017, accessed December 31, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Fontaine, Madeline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH France