Emily Adams Bode Aujla Brings Her Downtown Cool to ‘The Marriage of Figaro’

Bode has left the Decrease East Aspect in favor of late 18th century Spain. Emily Adams Bode Aujla lent her design skills to Little Island’s manufacturing of The Marriage of Figaro, bringing her Americana aptitude to the basic opera.

Whether or not she’s dreaming up a beaded flapper costume or a clown swimsuit costume, Bode Aujla all the time designs with a selected particular person in thoughts. So, for her, the method of making the Figaro costumes wasn’t a far cry from designing the collections which have earned her a cult following. “My collections are largely impressed by private narratives. I typically take into consideration folks which can be in my life presently, they usually function muses—whether or not that’s my husband or my pal Kurt from faculty. There’s sure folks in my life which have all the time been inspiring figures for me,” she says. “With the opera costumes, I don’t suppose I essentially am fascinated by the wearability within the day-to-day, however it nonetheless has that extra creativeness and muse thought of reminiscence and fascinated by issues.”

Bode Aujla views the style present as a cousin of stage efficiency, which helped put together her for the world of dwell theater. “Our exhibits are like tableau vivant. It truly is creating a whole memory-evoking thought, much like theater. It often includes scent or music,” she says. Little Island’s producing inventive director Zack Winokur considered Bode Aujla for the costuming due to her emphasis on storytelling. “Each time I see her collections, each time she talks concerning the work that she does, it’s all story. It appears a pure match for her to enter the theater,” he tells Vogue. “As a result of she’s so traditionally knowledgeable and actually serious about narrativizing, and placing her personal mark on historic type, [I thought] that this might be a extremely enjoyable project for her, and I believe she knocked it out of the park.”