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Although he seems natural, Einar comes across as very restrained physically. And one of the ways we did this was by making a restrained, highly formal costume for Einar, almost an armor” ( “The Danish Girl” Costumer Explains Transforming Eddie Redmayne Into Lili Elbe). Delgado said, “Lili was entrapped, that body had to be like a prison for her. When we first meet Einar, Delgado dressed lead actor Redmayne in very tightly fitted, structured, high-collared suits. I found that an interesting take, given that as you’ll see below, only about 50% of the costumes looked like they were actually IN the late 1920s.
When asked about challenges, costume designer Paco Delgado said in one interview, “One of the most difficult ones was being faithful to the story and being respectful to the real Lili she wasn’t a fictional character, she was somebody who really existed” ( Paco Delgado on Dressing “The Danish Girl”: “We Were All Contained by the Bravery of Lili”). Overall, I feel like the costume design and execution was very nicely done from a character standpoint but had a few misses in terms of the historical period.ĭespite The Danish Girl being a fictionalized take on Lili Elbe’s story, the filmmakers aimed to be true to the real history. The film sets the story beginning in 1926 and then going through at least the late 1920s if not the early 1930s. The costumes were designed by Paco Delgado ( Les Misérables, 2012), and the film is a shoo-in for Oscar nominations up the wazoo, so he’s done TONS of press talking about his designs. I hope that this is appropriate and accurate to how Lili presented herself.
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*I’m going to call Lili “Einar” and “he” for the brief period in the movie before she began to realize her gender identity, and “Lili” and “she” once that realization begins. But I’m going to leave the politics to those in the transgender community, and move on to the costumes!
There was a lot of emphasis on Einar’s wife, Gerda’s, experience, which I found fascinating - although I was conflicted as to whether that detracted from Lili’s story.
The story is one of the few that I’ve seen to try to understand the transgender experience, although I’ve seen some criticisms of how that process is depicted. I think the main thing is that they compressed the timeline into the 1920s, while the real Lili (then Einar) married in 1904.* Taking the movie on its own terms, I found it an interesting watch. Neither are completely true to the real story - you can read a great run-down of what’s real and what’s fiction at History Vs. The movie is based on a fictionalized story of Lili Elbe’s life. The movie is prime Oscar bait, tackling a fascinating subject but coming under some criticism for casting a cisgendered Eddie Redmayne in a transgendered role. There’s NO way you haven’t heard about The Danish Girl, the 2015 and currently-in-theaters movie about Danish artist Lili Elbe, who was born Einar Wegener, and realized she was transgender in 1920s Denmark.