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Costume Design for 'Posh Spice' in Sinbad the Sailor

Costume Design
2007 (Made)
Artist/Maker
Charles Cusick Smith (costume designers)
Place of origin
York (Made)

Costume design by Charles Cusick Smith for 'Posh Spice' in Sinbad the Sailor at the York Theatre Royal, December 2007.


Object details

Categories
Entertainment & Leisure
Pantomime
Costumes
Designs
Object type
Costume design
TitleCostume Design for 'Posh Spice' in <i>Sinbad the Sailor</i> (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour and pen on card with attached fabric swatch and digitally printed images
Pen
Paint
Synthetic Fabric
Paper
Card
Drawing (Image-Making)
Painting (Image-Making)
Brief description
Costume design by Charles Cusick Smith for 'Posh Spice' in Sinbad the Sailor at the York Theatre Royal, December 2007
Physical description
Costume design by Charles Cusick Smith for 'Posh Spice' in Sinbad the Sailor. Full length figure of a Pantomime Dame, wearing a short pink dress with puff sleeves and a bejewelled belt with a VB monogram buckle. The dress has lycra sleeves under the puff sleeves and a similar infill at the bodice. She has lycra tights, a jewelled collar, gold bangles and silver platform shoes. An image of Victoria Beckham is attached, lower left, to show the appropriate hairstyle, and there are images of a foot in a silver and white platform shoe, and a row of platform shoes in different colours, lower right. With an attached fabric swatch, upper right.
Dimensions
  • Height: 42cm
  • Width: 30cm
Credit line
Given by the artist
Summary
Costume design by Charles Cusick Smith for 'Posh Spice' in Sinbad the Sailor at the York Theatre Royal, December 2007.
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.1004-2017

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Record createdNovember 22, 2016
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1373160/costume-design-for-posh-spice-costume-design-charles-cusick-smith/
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