The Masque of The Red Death

2024 

A design project for Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ demonstrating skills in costume design, costume construction and concept artwork. Poe’s short story is about an unnamed plague which I’ve adapted to the Spanish Influenza (1916-18). 

This is a costume interpretation for a mysterious masked figure that interrupts a masquerade ball and is soon revealed to be the personification of the plague, killing all the attendants. The costume is informed by WWI and greatly inspired by gas masks, military uniform, strait jackets and the human anatomy.