Christine Bieselin Clark
Born
Christine Bieselin
Alma materSuffolk County Community College, Stony Brook University
OccupationCostume designer
Websitewww.christineclarkdesign.com

Christine Bieselin Clark is an American costume designer known for her work on Tron: Legacy, Ender's Game, and Spy.[1] She was nominated in 2022 for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes for her work on Star Trek: Picard.

Biography

Bieselin Clark, who spent her youth on Long Island, New York[2] is an alumna of Suffolk County Community College,[3] and graduated in theater arts from the Stony Brook University. She began working as a theatre costume designer for productions throughout the East Coast.[4] Her career in the film industry started in 1997, when she joined the production of Deceiver as an intern costume designer.[4]

Bieselin Clark worked during the 2000s as an assistant costume designer on films including In Her Shoes, 300, Watchmen, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.[5][4] According to Entertainment Weekly, "she broke out as a sci-fi costume designer on TRON: Legacy"[5] For this 2010 movie, she worked with Michael Wilkinson (whom she names as her mentor[6]) in designing the lighted costumes, which used electroluminescent lamps derived from a flexible polymer film and featured hexagonal patterns.[7][8] Bieselin Clark told Wired that the costumes of the virtual reality siren characters are a "play on feminine shapes and then made [to] look like cars," adding:[9]

"We wanted an auto-body kind of finish so the characters' curves feel like metal. We used metallic paint and pigment and things you would use on motor vehicles and created a fabric that we invented for this process. When you put those little touches of light in there, it just becomes a whole other being, almost."

For her costume work on TRON: Legacy, she was nominated for the 2010 Costume Designers Guild Award.[10] The film's costume designs influenced the men's 2010 Donatella Versace collection.[11][12][13][14]

Her first job as the lead costume designer for a major film was on Ender's Game.[5][4] The costume helmets comprised three magnet-connected sections; it was important that the visor be easy to remove because of reflections during filming. Creating the helmets involved a 3D scan of each actor's head, so that a computer program could adapt the helmet shape to the head; the shape was then resin printed.[4]

For her costume work on Star Trek: Picard, Bieselin Clark was nominated for the 2020 Costume Designers Guild Award,[15] and in 2022, for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes.[16] When first approaching the costumes for this series, Bieselin Clark looked at costumes from throughout Star Trek as research. She wanted to humanize Jean-Luc Picard and show more vulnerability through his clothing. She also wanted to depict the changes that the character underwent in decades after the time of Star Trek: The Next Generation. An example of the latter comes in the episode "Absolute Candor", which begins with a flashback to Picard's time in Starfleet where he is seen in a white suit with his Starfleet badge. This is contrasted later in the episode when he returns to the planet in rugged, darker clothing that matches the changes in his personality and in the state of the universe.[17]

References

  1. ^ Anderson, Tre'vell (2015-06-05). "Meet the four faces of Melissa McCarthy in 'Spy'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  2. ^ "Christine Bieselin Clark - Costume Designer". Christine Clark official website. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
  3. ^ "Distinguished Alumni". Suffolk County Community College. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  4. ^ a b c d e Lytal, Cristy (2013-10-26). "Costume designer Christine Bieselin Clark crafts 'Ender's Game' flash". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  5. ^ a b c Scharf, Lindzi. "10 Hot Costume Designers In New Hollywood gallery". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  6. ^ Hogg, Trevor (2013-11-08). "Sew Good: Christine Bieselin Clark talks about Ender's Game". Flickering Myth. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  7. ^ "MAKING OF TRON: LEGACY (2010) Movie". Artooz. Archived from the original on May 10, 2012. Retrieved April 25, 2012.
  8. ^ Laverty, Chris (November 9, 2010). "Tron Legacy: Light Suit Costume". Clothes on Film. Archived from the original on June 3, 2012. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
  9. ^ Hart, Hugh. "Dreaming Up Tron: Legacy's Sexy Sirens, Wicked Light Cycles and Other Killer Visuals". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  10. ^ Powers, Lindsay (2011-01-20). "Costume Designers Guild Award Nominees Announced". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  11. ^ Menkes, Suzy (2010-01-18). "Back to the Future". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  12. ^ Barnes, Brooks (2010-07-26). "Marketing 'Tron: Legacy' Brings the Hardest Sell Yet". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  13. ^ Moore, Booth (2010-12-09). "'Tron: Legacy' costume designer talks light-up suits, pixie hairdos and Spanx". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  14. ^ "Exclusive interview with Tron: Legacy costume designer Christine Bieselin Clark « Celebrity Gossip and Movie News". Tribute.ca. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  15. ^ Tangcay, Jazz (2021-03-04). "'One Night in Miami,' 'Mulan' and 'Mank' Among Costume Designers Guild Nominations". Variety. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  16. ^ Schneider, Jordan Moreau,Michael; Moreau, Jordan; Schneider, Michael (2022-07-12). "Emmys 2022: The Complete Nominations List". Variety. Retrieved 2023-01-03.((cite news)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ Armstrong, Vanessa (February 27, 2020). "Star Trek: Picard's Costumes Showcase How Characters Have Changed and What Adventures Come Next". SyFy Wire. Archived from the original on March 12, 2020. Retrieved May 24, 2020.

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