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The Crown's Costume Designer Breaks Down the Fashion of Season 2 | Vanity Fair

Costume designer Jane Petrie explains the research rigor behind dressing a real-world royal family on screen. Great for designers working on any project grounded in real history and public record.

Vanity Fair · 10 min · Intermediate · DES · Production Design · 2018

What you take away

Period costume accuracy is a research discipline as much as a design one.

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