Five Miss havishams appeared in London!?



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Five models transformed into Miss Havisham during 2014 in London and it is for celebrating the screening of 'Great Expectations' on TV Channel Drama. A team of top stylist, make-up artists, costume designers and dressers spent over three hours to transform each model into Miss Havisham. The Miss Havishams travelled to central London by public transport and visited Westminster Abbey which is where Charles Dickens's final resting place and Big Ben. They congregated in front of Big Ben at 8:40 am as it was the time Miss Havisham was jilted by her fiancé in the novel and was the time she stopped the clocks around her.

I found the Miss Havishams's look quite creepy but on the other hand, I think they look amazing!  I like how the characters have presented the Gothic features and also like what Dickens described Miss Havisham in the novel 'the witch of the place'. I also find the photographs very interesting and powerful as it is like five Miss Havishams in a modern city.

Katya Wildman and her team spent two months to source and age the jewelries, veils, flowers and the wedding dresses that the five models wore, while for the makeup and hair was created and done by Julia Townend, Nicci Jackson and Deanna V'lcevska.

Costume designer Katya Wildman says, "We watched a number of actresses playing Miss Havisham, including Gillian Anderson, Helena Bonham Carter and Charlotte Rampling as well as reading the descriptions of this haunting character in the book. We wanted to capture Miss Havisham's ethereal beauty as well as the decaying of her clothes and spirit as a  result of her long period of mourning for the wedding she never had, The result is a complete transformation of our five models that we hope captures the essence of this haunting and very moving character."

Adrian Wills, the General Manager of UKTV channel Drama says, "The Miss Havishams are a fitting tribute to one of the most memorable characters ever created. We like to think that Charles Dickens, who is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, would have been amused to think that more than 150 years after he created Miss Havisham she is standing at the foot of Big Ben at twenty minutes to nine, still pinning for her lost love."