DANIELLE NIEVES costume design
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    • Sweeney Todd
    • I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
    • American Mariachi
    • Twelfth Night
    • The Winter's Tale
    • Beauty and the Beast
    • Lydia and the Troll
    • Under A Baseball Sky
    • Sense & Sensibility
    • Real Women Have Curves
    • Clean/Espejos
    • Behold The Dreamers
    • Man of La Mancha
    • Clockwork Orange
    • No End of Blame
    • Gertrude the Cry
    • Pity in History
    • Les Miserables
    • The Liquid Plain
    • Lovesong of the Electric Bear
    • Dance - Longitude
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    • Conceptual Design >
      • Hamlet
      • The Tempest
      • Assassins
      • Shakuntala
      • Journey to the West
      • Guys and Dolls
      • Pride and Prejudice
    • Helena Modjeska Costume Exhibition
    • Presence In Absence


Real Women Have Curves

2019 Dallas Theater Center
Director: Christie Vela

Photos by Karen Almond
Scenic Design: Arnulfo Maldonado
Lighting Design: Amanda West
Real Women is a comedy about 5 Chicana women in a sewing factory in East LA in the mid 1980s. The director wanted to dismantle stereotypes of Latina women in the USA by showcasing the diverse and profound impact Americanization and the “American Dream” has had on Latinx peoples in the USA. The costume designs showed a range from folkwear aesthetics to assimilated styles depending on the character.  For the finale, the director requested designs for a runway show that were “Mexican-folk costume meets couture”. Using archetypes of Mexican women as a silhouette base, I then used pre-Columbian art and symbolism on top of modern Latinx aesthetics (as transformed by the immigrant experience) to create the runway looks. 
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