Sandy Powell's Dressing the Part: Costume Design for Film
Dressed: The History of Fashion
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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is dedicated to one of the greatest visual storytellers of our time, costume designer Sandy Powell who joins us to talk about her prolific 40 year career creating movie magic. Her work is the subject of a current exhibition Sandy Powell Dressing the Part: Costume Design for Film on view now at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion and Film until March 2025. The exhibition is the first retrospective of Sandy’s work and features more than 70 costumes from 30 films, including Shakespeare in Love, Interview with the Vampire, The Young Victoria and many many more.
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| 0:00.0 | Dress the History of Fashion is a production of Dressed Media. |
| 0:08.7 | With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. |
| 0:12.9 | Every day, we all get dressed. |
| 0:15.1 | Welcome to Dressed, the History of Fashion, a podcast where we explore the who, what, when of why we wear. We are fashion historians |
| 0:22.7 | and your host, April Callahan. And Cassidy Zachary. April, how many costume designers can say |
| 0:31.7 | they lost the Oscar for Best Costume Design to themselves? Okay, well, you being the former film, TV, movie costume person, you're the expert on this, |
| 0:44.8 | so I have no clue. |
| 0:46.5 | Well, let's just say that it's exactly the case with today's guest, Sandy Powell, one of the most decorated and sought after costume designers living and working |
| 0:55.4 | today. And Sandy's career spans an incredible 40 years, 50 plus films. She's earned the highest |
| 1:02.5 | honors, including the title of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire or |
| 1:08.1 | OBE. And she has an incredible 16 BAFTAs. |
| 1:13.0 | And BAFTAs are the British Academy Film Awards. |
| 1:15.3 | She has 15 Academy Awards. |
| 1:17.7 | And these are all nominations. |
| 1:18.8 | So 16 and 15 nominations. |
| 1:21.2 | And she's won three of each. |
| 1:22.9 | And this is a fun fact. |
| 1:24.3 | Her first BAFTA and Oscar wins came in the same year in 1998 when she was nominated |
| 1:29.2 | at each Academy's awards for her designs for not one, but two films. So she took home the Oscar |
| 1:35.2 | for Shakespeare and Love and the BAFTA for Velvet Gold Mine. I mean, I think that this is maybe not the |
| 1:40.3 | first time that we've had an Academy Award winner on the show, but she definitely takes the cake. Yeah. And this was not the first time that we've had an Academy Award winner on the show, but she definitely takes the cake. |
| 1:44.6 | Yeah. |
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