rosalyn51:I wanted to dress Lady Mary in a Fortuny Delphos gown. Mariano Fortuny didn’t design dress
rosalyn51:I wanted to dress Lady Mary in a Fortuny Delphos gown. Mariano Fortuny didn’t design dresses with a V-neck, but I wanted to do something that felt contemporary and relevant so I reimagined the shape of that original dress and played around with various necklines and settled on this one, which is more dynamic, edgier and a bit cooler for Lady Mary. So that’s how I modernized something that was very much of its time.I always look at interesting necklines for Edith. And she really suits a pussy bow. So we added this tawny russet silk pussy bow to an original dress under a velvet coat that lifted the costume so that it had a focal point. Pussy bows are from current catwalks but were also fashionable in the 1920s, so that’s the balance I try to find: pieces that sit perfectly within that world but that are understood by a modern audience, so they are coveted.- Anna Mary Scott Robbins, Downton Abbey movie costume director, Secrets of ‘Downton Abbey’ Style, New York Times Sept 13, 2019 -- source link
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