As ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’ hits cinemas, costume designer Anna Robbins talks Vogue through the costumes in the second ‘Downton Abbey’ film.
is set on the Riviera, and I studied a lot of photographs of Chanel in the South of France while designing the Crawleys’ slightly more relaxed holiday wardrobes. Edith, in particular, embraces some of the more daring styles that were becoming popular [a natural choice given her relationship with the Bloomsbury set and the more bohemian circles in London at that point]; I found these beautiful cream-and-green trousers that she wears with a kimono and matching slippers.
”“When it came to designing Lucy’s wedding dress, I found a photograph in a ’20s copy ofthat I nearly exactly recreated; it’s streamlined through the hips and then layer upon layer of gathered silk tulle flows out around her. She’s more down to earth than the other characters who have been married at Downton Abbey, so it felt important that she would be able to lift up her skirts and dance at the reception. Her veil, though, is more elaborate than any of the others.
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