Carbon Costume

In American Horror Story: Coven, an extremely powerful Voodoo Queen in modern times, Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett) made the greatest of sacrifices to attain immortality. With a dark, bloody past behind her and a broiling war with a witch coven in the present, she calmly spends her days running her hair salon Cornrow City. But eventually tensions mount between her and the coven’s Supreme as each vies for territory within New Orleans. She dresses confidently, colorfully and powerfully.

A child TV star with stunning, frosty looks and perfectly done make-up, Madison Montgomery (Emma Roberts) winds up at Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Woman after telekinetically killing her director in the TV series American Horror Story: Coven. She does not at first get along well with her fellow students because of her domineering, condescending, overly confident and dismissive behavior. Her powers and demeanor, however, put her in the running for Supreme of the coven when the current Supreme dies. She dresses metro-chic in name brands, as any self respecting starlet would do.

The former Supreme of the coven at Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies in New Orleans, Fiona Goode (Jessica Lange) is a glamorous, stunning, brilliant, wildly powerful and exceptionally vain woman. In the TV series American Horror Story: Coven, she possesses the ability to drain humans of their life force in order to extend her own and is constantly searching for a permanent fix to mortality. She returns to Miss Robichaux’s Academy after a jet-setting stint in hopes of regaining control of the coven, but her daughter and current coven of witches make it difficult. She dresses as fabulously as her lifestyle, in sexy, tight, black clothing with a cigarette in hand.

As the Headmistress of the witch coven housed in Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies, Cordelia Foxx (Sarah Paulson) guides her students with a gentle, caring hand in the TV series American Horror Story: Coven. She is the daughter of the former and extremely powerful Supreme, although she and her mother have a strained – and sometimes murderous – relationship. Cordelia, a master of herbs and potions, understands the dark powers gathering against her coven and will sacrifice everything to protect it. This guide is for her outfit after she looses her eyesight, when her clothes change from a mix of white and black to predominantly black.

In Ultraviolet, set in a world in which vampires exist due to a disease called hemoglophagia, Violet Song Jat Shariff (Milla Jovovich) is part of the underground resistance fighting in the Blood Wars. The government is rounding up the vampires – called homophages – in order to kill or experiment upon them. Violet has a violent and bloody history with those she battles, having lost both a husband and child to them. This guide covers her red leather outfit that nearly covers her from head to toe to protect her from the sun.

A moniker for the cutting-edge AI system within Umbrella Corporation’s bio-weaponry facility The Hive, the Red Queen causes the entire series of events in the film Resident Evil. After an outbreak of the zombie-causing T-virus occurs within The Hive, the Red Queen initiates a lock-down and will not allow anything living to escape The Hive. She is modeled after the lead programmer’s daughter, appearing as a completely red little girl in the first movie and then as a full-color holographic girl dressed in red in the sequels.

Existing only as a figment of her husband’s memory in the film Inception, Mal (Marion Cotillard) is nevertheless an extremely powerful and often damaging presence. She and her husband, Dominic Cobb, excelled in the manipulation of people’s minds. Unfortunately, they pushed the limits of their abilities too far and Mal lost the ability to differentiate between reality and dreams. This guide is for her pivotal windowsill gown, a deep purple dress with heels.

An architecture student in France, Ariadne (Ellen Page) is recruited by Dominic Cobb as part of a team assigned to complete an inception, or the planting of an idea in someone’s mind. She possesses brilliant architectural design abilities, creating the subconscious maps through which the team navigates in the movie Inception. Ariadne is also the only one who calls out Dominic on his erratic mental state that could endanger the entire team. She dresses like a normal college student, but with an extra fashionable French flair.