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Costume designed by Jenny Beavan for Sienna Miller in Casanova (2004)

From Kerry Taylor Auctions

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Costume designed by Michael O'Connor for Keira Knightley in The Duchess (2008)

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Costume designed by Alexandra Byrne for Anya-Taylor Joy in Emma (2020)

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Costume designed by Janet Patterson for Nicole Kidman in The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

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Costume designed by Tom Rand for Elizabeth Taylor in Young Toscanini (1988)

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Costume designed by John Bright for Uma Thurman in The Golden Bowl (2000)

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Paintings come to life “some girls like….pretty girls.” {x}

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Embroidery from HBO’s television series Game of Thrones - Costume Designer Michele Clapton, Embroidery by Michele Carragher

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I am utterly enthralled by the fish.

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For this dress the designer Michele Clapton wanted a dragonscale like textured embroidery that starts to emerge on Daenerys’s costume and becomes heavier and more pronounced, growing and evolving as the season progresses.

To create this I used a North American smocking stitch. I then used a metallic thread combined with blue embroidery thread to do a stitch called “lock stitch" (a good book to find this in is “A Tale of Two Stitches” by Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn) in a random manner to fix and blend the smocked dragonscale onto the dress.

On the second dress I used much more of the lock stitch and started to grow the decoration down the dress.

The third and final dress is in a paper silk so has more sheen, again I applied smocked pieces to the shoulders, but add more down across the bust. Again I add the lock stitch in between, also adding pieces of Italian tubular mesh wire, which I open up slightly and use a lock stitch over the top. The decoration is heavier than on the previous dresses and grows further down trailing off down the skirt panels. The final embellishment is a few Miyuki Tila beads and Miyuki drops in matt metal patina iris on the edge of the sleeve and neck adding another scale like texture.

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Costume designed by Alexandra Byrne for Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth (1998)

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Costume designed by Raymond Hughes for Susan Hampshire in The Pallisers (1974-1975), later worn by Scarlet Johansson in The Prestige (2006)

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Costume designed by Jenny Beavan for Drew Barrymore in Ever After (1998)

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Costume designed by Jenny Beavan and John Bright for Helena Bonham Carter in A Room With a View (1985)

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Michelle Dockery in Downton Abbey (2010)

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Claire Foy in The Crown (2016)

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Claire Foy in The Crown (2016)

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Rachel Shenton in All Creatures Great and Small (2020)