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“Lucille, who is absolutely tied to this house, says a line about how she can never leave this house. Looking out at a vine that is dead, she says, ‘Nothing grows here anymore.’ So we started making these leaves.” She and the team also hand-dyed hundreds of long, claw-like acorns—and when the tops separated in the dye solution, re-glued each cap.
She modeled a large, intricate and dimensional garland of leaves from a sample piece of passementerie. It encircles Lucille’s dresses like vine that protects—or strangulates.
A team of six artisans created the leaves from a single length of cording, each frond and vertebrae glued and hand-stitched according to a template. Hawley estimated that each leaf took six hours to create.
“We built it so that we could take the whole thing off and put it on the next dress,” Hawley said. The intensive labor was easier to justify because Lucille wears dresses with the garland for most of the film.
Hawley also extended the utility of the dress by creating three different bustles. “Each one gets longer … and functions like an umbilical cord attached to the house,” she said.
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