Costume Design

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“Persuasion”: Dakota Johnson Trends ‘Today’ in an Updated Jane Austen Costume Design

Can Jane Austen fans be persuaded to love Netflix's adaptation of her final novel Persuasion - starring Dakota Johnson (Anne Elliot), Henry Golding (Mr. Elliot) and Cosmo Jarvis (Captain Frederick Wentworth) Jane Austen's Persuasion has critics all aflutter at the liberties taken by director Carrie Cracknell and costume designer, Marianne Agertoft (Poldark, Utopia, Les Misérables) that imbues the work with a current sensibility? This is established in the first beat of the film when Ms.
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Deliciously Styled in Character on “Julia”

How costume design helped the actors of new HBO Max series “Julia” fit into their characters In playing Paul Child in the 8-part HBO Max series Julia, costume designer John Dunn fitted David Hyde Pierce with a piece of clothing that Pierce said automatically helped him look — and feel — the part. The show is set in the ’60s when famous chef and television personality Julia Child (played by Sarah Lancashire) started popularizing French cooking in America.
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Oscar Nominated Costume Designer, Massimo Cantini Parrini (Cyrano), Captures Love in Fabric

What does love look like? Oscar Nominated Massimo Cantini Parrini (Cyrano) has captured the intangible and magical feeling in fabric and hue, so if the viewer feels like they are inside moving art, the twice nominated Italian costume designer – previously nominated for Pinocchio – has achieved his aim, for he drew inspiration from 18th century watercolors he’d observed in the museums of London and Rome. At Italy at The Oscars, the Tuscan native declared, “I love to work.