Last week at my doll club meeting I saw the IRL Jupiter Ascending doll. She looks exactly like the promotional photo and in no way resembles the actress Mila Kunis or the gown in the movie.
Mila Kunis is a hot-looking woman.
This sculpt does her no justice. It's all wrong. The mouth is pinched
and dark and it really looks plastic (besides being plastic.)
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"Jupiter
Ascending"
Limited Edition of 300
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I'm not oblivious to the fact that the movie costume is a true work of art with fabulous details, blah, blah and that a doll costume would cost a fortune to compete but this costume falls short of the sense of delicacy which is the main beauty of the gown in the first place. It looks like the flowers were thrown at it instead of gracefully encircling it. Something went very wrong with the interpretation of the flowers.
I'm a big fan of many of Tonner's extravagant gowns but not this one. One thing it has in it's favor is no glitter has been applied.
The film's costume designer was
Kym Barrett who enlisted
Filipino fashion designer Michael Cinco to create the wedding dress.
Cinco created a custom made couture dress for
Mila, a sparkling red and white gown elaborately adorned with delicate
flowers and jewels, with a matching headpiece. Cinco told us that "as the premise of the film was
in outer space, with Mila Kunis as a reincarnation of the Queen Mother,
the challenge was indeed immense. I was inspired by heavenly goddesses
and came up with a beautifully surreal bride in Mila Kunis, in nude mesh
embellished with red ceramics. The three other gowns I made for the
film were equally stunning and well, heavenly."
Quoted from "Mila Kunis is working some gorgeous couture in Jupiter Ascending "
written by Joanna Crawley
