New ‘Heroes and Villains’ costume exhibit debuting at D23Expo 2019

More than 70 costumes from 55 years of Disney movies and television shows will be on display as part of a new Walt Disney Archives exhibit at D23 Expo 2019 this August in Anaheim.

“Walt Disney Archives Presents Heroes and Villains: The Art of the Disney Costume” is a 12,000 square-foot exhibit featuring costumes spanning from the classic “Mary Poppins” to this year’s live-action retelling of “Aladdin.”

As guests enter the exhibit, they will be greeted by “Cinderella’s Workshop,” a gallery featuring the fairy-tale character’s dresses from her numerous Disney incarnations, including: 1997’s Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella; the gown worn by Scarlett Johansson for Annie Leibovitz’s 2007 Disney Dream Portrait series; 2014’s “Into the Woods;” the 2015 live-action reimagining of the animated masterpiece Cinderella; and the ABC hit series “Once Upon a Time. “

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The main gallery will be broken into three sections: “Disney Heroes,” “Disney Villains,” and “Spaces Between,” reserved for the antiheroes.

The “Disney Heroes” section will include are Belle’s village dress and ballgown from 2017’s “Beauty and the Beast;” creations worn by the Genie, Aladdin, and Jasmine in this year’s live-action “Aladdin;” and—for the first time ever displayed together—three iconic Mary Poppins “traveling dresses” worn in three Poppins productions: the 1964 original film, 2019’s “Mary Poppins Returns, “and the Broadway musical. “

The “Disney Villains” section include the trio of wonderfully wicked witches from 1993’s “Hocus Pocus,” the duo of dresses worn by the stepsisters in 2015’s “Cinderella,” and the dress worn by Bette Davis in 1978’s “Return from Witch Mountain.”

The “Spaces Between” section includes Maleficent’s gown from the 2014 film, as well as the Evil Queen and Hook’s costumes from “Once Upon a Time.”

Hollywood’s preeminent designers, past and present are part of the exhibit, including Academy Award-winners Colleen Atwood, Sandy Powell, and Tony Walton, as well as Emmy winner Ellen Mirojnick and Emmy nominees Eduardo Castro and Penny Rose.

If the costumes fascinate you, Disney will be releasing a book, “The Art of Disney Costuming: Heroes, Villains, and Spaces Between”, in September, but it will be available in adance at D23 Ecpo.

D23 Expo 29, the biennial event, presented by D23: The Official Disney Fan Club, is taking place August 23–25, 2019 at the Anaheim Convention Center.