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Three Time Academy Award Winning costume designer Anthony Powell dies.

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  The wonderful British costume designer Anthony Powell nominated for 5 Academy Awards and winning 3 of them. died in London aged 85.  Powell enjoyed great success designing for both stage and screen (he won a Tony too). Although his raison d’etre was period costumes such as  Travels with My Aunt (1972), Death on the … Continue reading



Women He’s Undressed

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Gillian Armstrong’s captivating documentary on three-time Academy Award Winning Costume Designer the larger than life Orry-Kelly starts out with a rather wonderful statement ‘He called himself a hem stitcher, yet he really was a Hollywood Star. In the country he’s come from, that’s bloody amazing, but no-one has ever heard of him’.  The country it … Continue reading



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