The costume designers of The Crown discuss the challenges of recreating Princess Diana's outfits and the sensitivity of the task.
That means delving into more than history books to dress the Windsor family—outfits have been inspired by everything from Lucian Freud paintings to Miu Miu campaigns. “I don’t think at any point I’ve sat there and looked at our work and gone, ‘Oh, it looks like a costume, it looks like a caricature,’ which it so easily could be with people like Mohamed Al-Fayed—a parody of something,” Sidonie says during a recent Zoom with both designers.
The duo, who won an outstanding-period-costumes Emmy for season three and were nominated each following season, leaned on this mantra when faced with their most daunting design to date. It was recreating the outfits that Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) and Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla) were wearing on August 31, 1997, when they died in a car crash. “Over the course of the four seasons that we’ve done, I felt the most duty bound to do that accurately,” says Amy. “More so than the revenge dress, more so than Aberfan even, because of the sensitivity of the nature of tha
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