Photo Gallery Glued, Stapled and Woven
Germany's Tanja Schulz-Hess won the competition for best costume design at Carnival in Venice in both 2007 and 2008. Her 2008 outfit "Luna Park" was modeled after an amusement park.
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Here, Schulz-Hess and her husband stand in front of a fitting backdrop.
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Her 2007 costume, called "Montgolfiera," included a hot air balloon headdress that weighed nearly 1.6 kilograms. Her skirt was supported by half of a laundry basket.
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Schulz-Hess, who comes from Hamburg, first visited the Venice Carnival 10 years ago. Here, she appears as in her costume "Casino" ...
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... and here in "Sensation of Music."
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Schulz-Hess says "people need something to look at."
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The costume designer claims that she can't make patterns or sew. She works her magic with a glue gun -- and even made her own wedding dress that way. One year she dressed up as "Treface trasparente" ...
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... and another year, she appeared as the Venice opera house La Fenice.
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Here, Schulz-Hess, wearing her "Farinella," does a portrait sitting in a cafe.
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The skirt of her "Farinella" costume showed current Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's face with a long Pinocchio nose superimposed on the body of a Commedia dell'Arte jester.
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Schulz-Hess spends 20 to 60 on materials for her costumes. She finds much of what she needs by poking around at flea markets. Here she is dressed as "Teatro all'interno."
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