Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is an examination of female authorship. Unlike previous adaptations, the film considers each woman’s artistry in full without trivialization. Marmee’s anger and Jo’s loneliness are bared, allowing for aspects of Louisa May Alcott’s personhood to be realized in an extra-textual manner. Jumping between the timelines of childhood and adulthood, traditional Shakespearean structures of comedy and tragedy combine to create something more ambiguous and complex. Gerwig thus weaves her own authorship into the Little Women narrative.
Garments absorb meaning as they are designed, created, styled and worn in a constant cycle of rebirth. Period fashion colored by pastel romanticism often fails to realize this. Examining a fashion narrative of the past in totality requires a consideration of tones clothing has taken on over time and now currently bears, and a questioning of whether fashion’s present narrative is enriched by, or rather tethered to, the past.
Words: Minnie Black
Creative Director: Minnie Black and Anna Mcgregor
Stylist: Minnie Black and Anna McGregor
Photographer: Geoff Haggray
Assistant photographer: Nina Amanuma
BTS photographer: Seth Stromberger
Models: Audrey Amarice, Giana DeAngelis, Madison Bryan