A lot of hard work and Chanel went into the movie’s to-Di-for wardrobe.
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Diana’s style is so distinctive, and so documented.
What kind of directives did Pablo give you from the beginning?
So there’s an endless amount of research.
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I mean, if you go onto any search engine, there are thousands and thousands of pictures.
And we also narrowed it down by having a time frame, which ran somewhere between 1988 and 1992.
There’s also the bomber, the blouson jacket that she wears at the end.
Costume designer Jacqueline Durran, with her Oscar for ‘Little Women’ in February 2020.Rachel Luna/Getty Images
I mean, it’s the same!
So that was sort of amazing.
So we were quite consciously not trying to do the closest version we could in every instance.
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But in some places we used things that were exactly her style and then other places we drifted off.
We bought a retro pair of jeans, and the sweaters weren’t made by us, obviously.
But a lot of the pieces were made.
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It’s a bit harder because it’s more fashionable and more people are interested in buying it.
What was the process of that like?
Pretty early on was we had an enormous fitting.
So those were clothes that I continued to look for right through shooting.
So that’s great that you got that from watching.
And how did you guys make Kristen look so tall?
Because Diana had a good five or six inches on her.
It was a lot to do with how she was shot, I think.
We didn’t make huge changes to anything particularly so that achieve it.
But we avoided things that kind of highlighted the fact that she was shorter than Diana.
Were there looks that Kristen particularly loved or hated?
She absolutely loved the Mondi jacket, the bomber.
But you know, I can’t speak highly enough of her.
And she’s got such great style.
It’s so different to Princess Diana’s, but that kind of shows how great her talent is.
At the beginning, I was quite obsessed.
We were making Pablo and Kristen’s movie.
So I didn’t feel the weight of the resident Brit too hard.
Let’s talk about the wedding gown.
It’s not actually so much like the famous real-life dress, really, that giant poof.
It didn’t feature in the main movie, it’s [only] in the montage.
So we just adapted a wedding dress to be an approximation of it.
I’m under no illusion that there were differences between Diana’s dress and the dress that we made.
But it was a kind of the spirit of the dress, rather than an exact replica.
What about the yellow sailor look?
That has to be a favorite.
That was based roughly on something Diana wore.
She went to review the Navy, I think, in Portsmouth.
And then I think it found its place.
It was classic, I think, and quite simple.
It was just an instinctive choice.
That one was one we made.
And the pearls, yeah, exactly that!
They were beautiful and oppressive at the same time.
Just like her life.
