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Costume designer Grace Snell considered how each scene of 'Sense and Sensibility' would be lit when she designed Elinor and Marianne's dresses, choosing vintage fabrics specifically for candlelight, natural light, and more. Here she breaks down Marianne Dashwood's ballgown made from "the finest gold silk" in this video.
Transcript
00:00The lighting of the film was very important to how I designed the costumes.
00:03I knew there would be candlelight and I knew that there would be lots of natural light.
00:07So this leads me back to why the lightest of cotton fabrics were to be used,
00:12so that there was movement and we could catch the light through the costumes.
00:16And when I was designing Marianne's ball gown, I knew we'd be seeing it in candlelight.
00:21So this one is the finest gold silk that shimmers and is very, very, very loose.
00:27It moves like water and drapes beautifully.
00:30And that was designed specifically to be seen in candlelight.

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