Your Highness Inspiration for Medieval Costumes

The upcoming movie Your Highness starring Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel has great medieval costumes, and setting and is bound to be hilarious judging from the trailer. Your Highness costumes serves for good inspiration for medieval costumes ideas for Halloween and other dress up parties or Medieval weddings.

In the Your Highness movie, 2 princes born into the same family but worlds apart in terms of chivalry and personality are asked to track down a evil wizard who has abducted the lover of one of the princes. The wizard lives in the tower in the Your Highness movie as shown above, and the princes must somehow journey to the tower, avoid being killed, defeat the powerful magic - wielding wizard and rescue the lover - played by Zooey Deschanel.

Natalie Portman Your Highness Costume

Natalie Portman dresses up as a sexy yet powerful ranger rouge type character with strength, beauty and perfect archery skills. The team of the 2 princes encounter the character played by Natalie Portman on route to the dark tower of the wizard. They team up in the hope that their combined powers can overcome that of the wizard. Natalie's character wears a fantastic female robin hood type costume, armed with a bow. She also dresses down to her throngs in one scene, attracting the attention of the 2 princes.


The Princes and Wizard Your Highness Costumes

The princes dress up in their usual medieval princes type costumes - one is dashing and any medieval tunic can make him look good, the other is slightly plump but wears a full body protective armor to emphasize the knight in shining armor mentality. The wizard, despite his rather ugly looking teeth, looks quite wizardry in his wizard robes. Complement that with the supreme magical powers from his fingers as he abducts Zooey Deschanel - a true dark wizard indeed.


Zooey Deschanel Your Highness Costume

Zooey Deschanel dresses up as a princess and damsel in distress costume in Your Highness. Although her costume hardly changes, the costume blends into very fittingly. She gives a hilarious and wonderful performance in negotiating with the dark wizard.

"I had so many amazing costumes in the movie," Zooey tells Lucky magazine. "They weren't things I would normally wear. They were basically medieval gowns. It was really fun dressing up like I was going to a Renaissance fair for three months."

The costume department had hundreds of costumes for the extras—from elaborate regal finery and barely there loincloths and bikinis to the weird and bizarre dark-hooded costumes of Muldiss Darton’s denizens.


This was in addition to the individual styles of each principal cast member—from Thadeous’ misguided fashion, Fabious’ striking questing attire and Isabel’s warrior princess costumes to Leezar and Belladonna’s decorative costumes and the witches’ red cloaks.

To imagine the people of the medieval trading town of Muldiss Darton, Webb-Crozier crafted costumes with inspiration from original places. As Your Highness costume designer Webb-Crozier describes: “It wasn’t a script that you could be tame about. In order to make it funny, it was all or nothing. We’ve gone medieval but also into the ’70s and ’80s. There’s a bit of French influence, a bit of Italian. It couldn’t be done in a mild way, so I just went for it.”

Juila Victorian Gothic Vampire Wedding Dress

The Gothic wedding dress may resemble those of the Middle Ages, Renaissance or the darker side of the underworld. White is allowed but usually not used except in conjunction with other dramatic colors, Styles can include puffed sleeves, plunging necklines and tightly cinched bodices.

This Gothic wedding dress below looks so fabulous on every woman. It works with a girl with curves or a girl without. Its beautiful sweetheart neckline and soft straight lines of the fabric create a gown to remember.



This gorgeous Victorian wedding gown is made from a corset that is a collection of different fabric textures and depths. It is made of your color choice or exactly to look like this picture. The main part of the corset is made from your choice of Poly blend or cotton colored fabric. What makes it unique is it is decorated with a silk dupioni of another color in the shape of an abstract cross design.

As KMKDesign's wedding dresses collection, this Gothic wedding dress can be made with or with the metal cross sewen in the middle. Adorned with matching crystals at the top. Measurements we will need High bust, Bust, Natural Waist, Hips, collar bone to hip, Height and the natural waist to tip of the base of your neck.

The bottom of the corset was decorated with lace or plain depending on your preference. It is fully bonedand fitted with black, silver or gold grommetts which ever fits you color choice best. Laced with matching satin or organdy ribbon.

For a successful gothic wedding, all elements need to be in harmony in order to create the desired atmosphere including your wedding dress design. Therefore, you may consider this Juila Victorian Gothic Vampire Wedding Corset and Skirt by KMKDesign as your Gothic wedding dress.

Sexy Red Gothic Corset Dress for Blood Devotion Wedding

Gothic dresses and wedding gowns for a dark fantasy prom or Gothic bride mostly inspired by Grecian, Medieval, Renaissance, Tudor, Baroque, fantasy and fairytale styles. Produce a variety of styles and accents are typical of each era. Either they red, gold or silver lace, jacquard, ribbons, cording and trim accents. This time I introduce a wedding dress that is inspired from popular Gothic tradition. Blood Devotion Vows!

The Red Gothic Corset Dress silk with Asymmetrical Skirt is inspired by Blood Devotion Vows ceremony, the traditional gothic wedding - traditional in the sense that it's far more likely to be performed than a full-on Victorian bash. Blood devotion vows are popular because of the links to handfasting (many Goths are pagan or Wiccan) and vampirism - many vampire lifestylers, whether Goth or not, have been known to take the blood vows.

Certain Gothic vows are recited. The couple's left wrists are bound together with red cloth, and the bride and groom both drink out of a wedding goblet filled with red wine. The wine symbolizes the couple's 'blood devotion' to each other. The very last drop of wine is poured upon the wedding altar. In order for it to be a legal marriage, the couple must be declared 'husband and wife' at some point. A Gothic celebration follows. This ceremony is similar to handfasting due to the binding of the wrists.


This red Gothic wedding dress is seductive dark and beautiful, great for a queen of hearts ensemble or for just being edgy and beautiful. The top is a fully boned four layered corset made of silk black taffeta with a deep blood red silk dupioni applique. Elegant black lace gently frames the buntlines will a fun frill of white front edges the bottom. Black grommets in the back with red ribbon lacing and a separating strong zipper for easy wear.

The skirt is created from a combination of red organdy, chiffon, silk and polyester. It is a One of a kind skirt can be remade but would be always be a little different. It is higher on one hip for a little flirtatious fun and tacked up in a mix of fun drapes and curves of red.

Sexy Red Gothic Corset Dress with asymmetrical skirts by KMKdesigns.org and will ship within 2-3 days of ordering ships priority mail domestic and international.

Beautiful Blue and Gold Jacquard Victorian Wedding Dress

Enchanted in a world of snow and light with a beautiful Blue and Gold Jacquard Victorian Fantasy Wedding Dress and let this gown convey you to a fantasy world made only of beauty and imagination.

"Victorian" here is not meant to indicate a specific culture, but rather references a time period and an aesthetic: the industrialized 19th century. Historically, this period saw the development of many key aspects of the modern world.

Neo-Victorian gold and light blue woven jacquard polyester blend with rich golden silk trim and ruffle. This gown is a 3 piece ensemble with a fully boned corset top adorned with a sheer golden ruffle along the neckline and hip. The skirt is a gathered 2 tiered skirt with a floor length train and then a knee length gathered hem in front. Comes with a full snowy white and creamy tylle petticoat that is lined with soft lightweight taffeta and covered with a circle skirt and silk bronze gold ruffle.

It is easy to put on with and elastic waistband invisible zipper in the skirt and side zipper in the top with gold colored grommets with organdy ribbon lacing.


Pictures of this Blue and Gold Jacquard Victorian Wedding Dress taken by Karrah Kobus and Model is the Lovely Rin Schwartz. The beautiful Victorian fantasy wedding dress made for medium size, Natural waist smallest part of your torso 2 inches above your belly button 28-32 and Bust over the fullest part of your bust not your Bra size 34-40. The model is 4' 11" Meant to be worn at any height. Dry clean only. Iron on the wrong side can be steamed.

Beautiful Blue and Gold Jacquard Victorian Fantasy Wedding Dress by KMKdesigns.org and will ship within 2-3 days of ordering ships priority mail domestic and international.
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Red Silk Gothic Eve Wedding Dress

Be the queen not just the princess on your wedding day with this handmade Red Silk Gothic Eve Wedding Dress by KMKDesigns.

We saw this gorgeous Red Silk Demask with Fleur De Li fabric and we had to make this gown. The fabric is one of a kind and we will not be able to purchase it again. It makes this dress truely unique. No one else would ever have its duplicate. This gown will make heads turn on your special day, whether it be your wedding day or some other important occasions.

The fantasy wedding dress is made from ten yards of one of a kind rich red silk we can make it again in silk Dupioni but this gorgeous demask is special. The skirt is a full tiered ball gown look. It’s trimmed on each tier with a full ruffle of red organdy for an immense look of dimension. The top is a fully boned corset and grometted with red ribbon lacing. The top is adorned with a silver colored flower sewn at the top center front. A lovely red silk bow in back completes this look.

This handmade Red Silk Gothic Eve Wedding Dress is from KMKDesigns line Elegant Blood created to embody the mysterious and magnificent world of the Vampire. This design does not include the petticoat to create this very full look. You can purchase the petticoat here on Etsy and if you purchase the petticoat at the same time as the dress you will receive $40 off on the petticoat.

First Red Silk Gothic Eve Wedding Dress photos by the wonderful Gas oven Photography for Gothic Wedding Gowns - look her up she is amazing.

Victorian Fantasy Wedding Dress

The Wedding Day has arrived, the most important event in a Victorian girl's life. It is the day her mother has prepared her for from the moment she was born. The Victorian girl knew no other ambition. She would marry, and she would marry well.

Once the bride chose her wedding day, a prerogative conferred upon her by the groom, she could begin planning her trousseau, the most important item of which was her wedding dress. The early Gothic Victorian wedding dress had a fitted bodice, small waist, and full skirt (over hoops and petticoats.) It was made of organdy, tulle, lace, gauze, silk, linen or cashmere. The veil was a fine gauze, sheer cotton or lace. The reasonable cost of a wedding gown in 1850 was $500, according to Godey's, with $125 for a veil. By 1861, more elaborate gowns cost as much as $1500 if constructed with lace.

In the early Victorian era, the bridegroom wore a frock coat of blue, mulberry or claret, and a flower favor in his lapel. By 1865, men's coats were tailored with a special "flower-hole" for this purpose. By the mid-Victorian era, frock coats were seldom worn, the morning coat being preferable because of its smarter appearance. Some grooms still wore frock coats, however, and did so with a vest of black cloth, dark gray trousers, a folded cravat of medium color, and lavender gloves stitched in black.


This Red Victorian wedding dress below is pure magic and inspired by old world fashion and Cinderella's magic night. This dress is flattering in every shape. Created with a delicate champagne dupioni silk. A fully boned 4 layered corset on top with white grometts and cream ribbon lacing. Easy to put on with a side zipper. Decorated with ruffled cream lace and hand sewen glass perals and crystals. The bottom of the corset is flared and frosted with a pleated satin white ruffle accented with lace Can be made with our without off the shoulder satin sleeves.

The skirt is a full ball gown look with a petticoat. Made in two tiered ruffled skirt that spills out in rich gathers. This Victorian wedding dress is shown with a petticoat that is sold separately. Without a petticoat it is still beautiful but will not be as full as the picture.

Victorian Fantasy Wedding Dress is also available in white glamor - please click image to enlarge!