“Sense and Sensibility” costume designer Grace Snell thought in chapters for Georgia Oakley’s new take on Jane Austen’s 1811 novel, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, respectively.
\n\nThe most distinct chapters, from Snell’s costuming perspective, are the country and the city. First, the Barton Cottage chapter, shaped by the Devonshire landscape. There, behind closed doors, the relationship between the Dashwood sisters is at its most intimate. Then, the London chapter, where Elinor and Marianne’s presentation to society takes on a different palette. Snell says the sets, weather and changing seasons inspired her work in the different phases.
\n\nAusten’s debut novel begins with the Dashwood family — sisters Elinor, Marianne, Margaret and their mother — settled at Norland Park, their Sussex estate. It’s set between the Georgian and Regency eras, in what Snell calls an “unusual transition period” as fashion began to “massively revolutionize” into the simpler style associated with Austen. Snell’s costuming inspiration, however, pulls from an array of eras, from period-accurate paintings and archival costume pieces to family portraits from the 2000s.
\n\nIn those photographs, “I really homed in on the intimacy that is within a family,” Snell says. “Particularly with sisters, and how…
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