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Jany Temime

Jany Temime
Temime in 2018
Born
France
Other names
  • Jany Fischer
  • Jany Hubar
  • Janine Hubar
  • Jany Van Hellenberg Hubar
Alma materParis Nanterre University (MA)
OccupationCostume designer
Years active1975–present

Jany Temime is a French[1] costume designer. She is best known for her work on the final six films in the Harry Potter film series, each of which garnered her Saturn Award nominations.[2][3] She won the Costume Designers Guild Award in 2012 for the 2011 film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 and in 2013 for the 2012 film Skyfall.[4][5]

Early life

Temime spent most of her childhood in Paris, France. The daughter of French ready-to-wear company owners, she progressed from creating outfits for her dolls to designing, fitting, and producing costumes for her entire class's school play at the age of eight.[6][7] In Paris, she earned master's degrees in French and Literature (or Latin)[contradictory] at Paris Nanterre University, as well as a certificate in Art History.[8][9] Her first job was at lifestyle magazine Elle as a fashion journalist.[8]

Career

While training at Elle, Temime was advised to start a career in the film industry. She subsequently moved to the Netherlands where she started by designing for short films and commercials. She later gained recognition for her work on several major Dutch film productions, such as De Lift, Ciske de Rat, Op hoop van zegen, as well as Academy Award-winning productions Antonia's Line and Character. After moving to London, England, Temime served as costume designer for the last six films in the Harry Potter film series, the 2013 film Gravity, and two films in the James Bond film series, Skyfall and Spectre, elevating her expertise to international recognition.[9]

Succeeding Lindy Hemming as costume designer for the third film of the Harry Potter film series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Temime was tasked with reinventing the established look of the then two-part-series. Highlighting the actors' coming of age and giving the series an overall more realistic and relatable look was important for both Temime and the film's director Alfonso Cuarón who had also been new to the series. Though Cuarón would not be involved with any future installments, Temime kept her role up until the final film, each new film challenging her to adapt her costumes to the characters' growing age and unique arcs.[10][11]

After working on several period films and a decade of designing for the Harry Potter fantasy series, Temime transitioned to designing reality-based space suits for the 2013 film Gravity, which, as she claims in an interview with The New York Times, proved to be her biggest technical challenge up until that point.[12] After thorough research into actual space suit designs, Temime had to make significant – preferably unnoticeable – changes to accommodate the actors, while still retaining a scientifically accurate look. In order to allow lead actress Sandra Bullock to easily open the suit and undress by herself, Temime moved the zipper to the front of the torso and removed the cooling garment and diaper, changes that were criticized by the scientific community.[13][14] For the project, Temime deviated from her usual pen-to-paper approach to conceptualization and created the costumes in a digital 3D environment instead.[15]

With her involvement in the 23rd and 24th James Bond film, Skyfall and Spectre, Temime's work was specifically centered around adjusting the Bond girl's appearance to today's society's idea of femininity, as well as making their outfits more functional and logical. Whereas older entries meant to dress Bond girls solely for the purpose of eye candy, modern Bond girls were supposed to have a more sophisticated, feminist, and independent approach to their style, according to Temime.[16][17][3][8]

Temime declined to return as costume designer for the Harry Potter spin-off film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them because she felt that her involvement with the franchise was meant to end after the conclusion of the main series.[11]

In 2017, Temime joined artists' supply brand Prismacolor, products of which she frequently uses for her own work, as an advocate.[10][11][18][7]

Controversy

During the promotion of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 in 2010, Temime, who served as the film's costume designer, was widely accused of copying a dress from the Alexander McQueen fall 2008 collection "The Girl Who Lived in the Tree" for the film.[19][20][21][22] The white layered tulle dress, worn by the character Fleur Delacour in the context of a wedding ceremony, features a pattern of two phoenixes facing each other on the bodice and black over-laid peacock feathers dissolving down the length of the dress. The latter appears to be directly copied from the Alexander McQueen dress, while the peacock motif was slightly altered to more closely resemble the phoenix. Temime has commented in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that she wanted the dress to be a "witch wedding dress but not a Halloween dress. The dress is white but it needed to have something fantastic to it. So there is the phoenix [motif], the bird, which is a symbol of love in a way because there is rebirth, love never dies, it is born again."[23]

Personal life

Temime has maintained a friendship with actress Emma Watson, whom she dressed for the role of Hermione Granger in Harry Potter over a span of six films. As Watson began modelling for such brands as Chanel and Burberry, Temime was hired as her stylist for film premieres.[18]

Filmography

Film

Costumes of (from left to right) Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Costume of Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge
Costumes of Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone (left) and George Clooney as Lieutenant Matt Kowalski (right) in Gravity
Costume of Daniel Craig as James Bond in Spectre
Year Title Notes
1975 Red Sien as Jany Fischer
1979 Uit elkaar as Janine Hubar
1980 The Lucky Star as Jany Van Hellenberg Hubar
1982 A Question of Silence as Jany Hubar
1983 Een zaak van leven of dood
De Lift
1984 Ciske de Rat
1985 Private Resistance as Jany Van Hellenberg Hubar
De prooi
The Dream as Jany Hubar
1986 Op hoop van zegen as Jany Van Hellenberg Hubar
1988 Honneponnetje
1989 Rituelen
1990 In the Shadow of the Sandcastle as Jany Hubar
1992 The Johnsons
For a Lost Soldier
1993 Belle van Zuylen – Madame de Charrière
Unknown Time
1994 1000 Roses
The Butterfly Lifts the Cat Up
1995 Last Call
Antonia's Line
All Men Are Mortal
1996 Crimetime
1997 Character
House of America Won—BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Costume 1998
1998 The Commissioner
1999 Sunset Heights
De bal
2000 Rancid Aluminium
Gangster No. 1
The Luzhin Defence
2001 High Heels and Low Lifes
Invincible
2002 La balsa de piedra
A Family Man
Moonlight
2003 Resistance
2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Costume Design 2005
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Costume Design 2006
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Costume Design 2005
2006 Copying Beethoven
Children of Men
2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Costume Design 2008
Nominated—Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Fantasy Film 2008
2008 In Bruges
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Costume Design 2010
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Costume Design 2011
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Costume Design 2012
Nominated—Award Circuit Community Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design 2011
WonCostume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Fantasy Film 2012
2012 Wrath of the Titans
Skyfall WonCostume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Contemporary Film 2013
2013 Gravity
2014 Hercules
2015 Spectre
Victor Frankenstein
2016 Passengers
2017 Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2019 The Kid Who Would Be King
Judy Nominated—British Independent Film Award for Best Costume Design 2019
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Costume Design 2020
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design 2020
6 Underground
2021 Black Widow

Television

Year Title Notes
1976 Sil de Strandjutter as Jany Fischer
1982 Tony as Jany Hubar
1989 Beppie
1991 De Dageraad
1994 Coma
Pril geluk
1995 Achilles en het zebrapad
De Partizanen
1996 Marrakech
In naam der Koningin
1998 Het glinsterend panster
2022 House of the Dragon WonCostume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television 2023[24]

Awards and honours

BAFTA Awards, Wales

  • 1998: House of America, Best Costume.

Costume Designers Guild Awards

  • 2012: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Excellence in Fantasy Film.
  • 2013: Skyfall, Excellence in Contemporary Film.
  • 2023: House of the Dragon, Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television.

Netherlands Film Festival

  • 1995: Special Jury Prize for her costume designs.

Rembrandt Awards

  • 2010: Honorary Rembrandt Award for her work as costume designer.

References

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