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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Costume Designer Arianne Phillips discusses ‘Wallis Simpson’

‘W.E.’ costume designer Arianne Phillips reveals how she recreated Mrs Simpson’s famously lavish taste in fashion for Madonna. Wallis Simpson was “That Woman”: a strikingly glamorous and impeccably dressed American adventuress whose attempts to infiltrate English society sparked suspicion, snobbery, ridicule and – ultimately – ostracism. So even a cod psychologist could venture a guess as to what first attracted Madonna to the idea of directing a film about her. For while Madonna might not have prompted a king to abdicate, and the Duchess of Windsor never donned a conical bra and simulated intimate acts on stage with a backing dancer, the two women have a fair bit in common. – - Read more  …here — story by Luke Leitch © Telegraph.co.uk

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