SubscribeNote: P:R Original Jamie McKelvie returns to the site with a reinterpretation of the White Queen with an eye towards the classic. The X-Men: Season One artist has taken Frost back to a more refined time, and back to the roots of the Hellfire Club’s origin. – Chris A.
Here’s what Jamie had to say about the design:
A quick design, but the thinking behind it was: if she’s called The White Queen, why shouldn’t her costume be connected to that? With that in mind, I looked up a couple of Elizabethan outfits and went from there, while trying to keep it true to her origins as a member of the Hellfire Club.
Toks
/ February 6, 2012Nice! This makes more sense to me, I never really knew why she would dress like a hooker.
This design makes her look regal and powerful whilst keeping it’s comic book sensibility.
Paul Bonzulac
/ February 6, 2012Very nice, but too conservative for Emma’s personality. This would be an excellent design for the White Queen’s mom, however.
Dedpool
/ February 6, 2012A lil midrift showing and some windows to show some skin on her thighs and viola pefect Emma. Otherwise yeah too conservative for her personality.
Timberoo
/ February 6, 2012A lovely, regal design for an alternate reality Emma Frost
Marie Brennan
/ February 6, 2012I like the stomacher evoking the Elizabethan period, but I do agree with Paul that it could be more flamboyant. There’s room to do something interesting with the sleeves, for example, or a more dramatic collar, even if you want to keep the general look simple. Also — I don’t know the character well — while it warms the cockles of my heart to see her in actual trousers, it might suit her better to have a skirt. (Not of the Elizabethan sort, though. Farthingales are not good attire for super-heroing or super-villaining.)
Dean
/ February 6, 2012I like this design, but for Emma Frost, this outfit is the equivalent of a burqa.
Chad
/ February 7, 2012Nothing wrong with a Burqa, and in certain climates, it makes a ton more sense.
I love the idea that inspired this, White Queen is such a strange codename when you consider the fact that her signifiers have always been T&A and the color white.
Also agree with the notion that there’s a lot of room for drama when you subtract the skin and remember the persona. I assume McKelvie is trying to be more practical, but right now that lovely stomacher is all that’s really going on. We need some equally lavish boots or gloves, and a crazy Elizabethan collar. She’s a billionaire ex-super-villain diamond-hard telepath, no need to have a costume designed for comfort when the greatest weapon at her disposal is fear.
Warren Newsom
/ February 7, 2012I love this! I think it’s well-reasoned and well-designed. Marvel should consider something like this for her.
Paul Bonzulac
/ February 8, 2012I feel bad that my comment was so brief – this really is a well conceived and well drawn design. I particularly like how the fur-collared cape connects to the charmingly antiquated stomacher (a new word for me, thank you Marie) and how it somehow seems superheroic and regal simultaneously. I think this is the sort of thing Xavier may have insisted she wore if she’d dated him instead of Scott!
Maki P
/ February 15, 2012This is very nice, the outfit looks beautiful and regal. Of course Emma Frost being Emma Frost could show more skin, but I prefer reasonably dressed superwomen.
Stefan Tonio
/ March 7, 2012according to Emma herself- she does it purposefully. She proud of her body- and doesnt give a crap if people oogle her- it’s to THEIR detriment….and she uses that as a purposeful distraction.