Sentences with phrase «1950s dress designer»

An even more welcome surprise is how the film's women are given their due, with Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps proving a more than capable sparring partner for Day - Lewis's bratty 1950s dress designer, and the great Lesley Manville commanding her scenes as his imperious, but not unkind, sister.

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Sparkling Suzy Perette designer metallic silver lamé cocktail party dress dating back to the mid 1950's.

The original dress from the movie, designed by 3 - time Oscar winning costume designer Dorothy Jeakins, was such a hit after fans saw the movie that copies were made and sold in 1950s department stores.

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In order to ready himself to play Reynolds Woodstock, he studied the lives of designers, learnt to sew, watched archive footage of 1950s fashion shows, consulted with the Victoria & Albert Museum's curator of fashion, apprenticed for a time under the head of costumes at the New York City Ballet and created his own couture dress from scratch using his wife, Rebecca Miller, as a model.

Day - Lewis plays Reynolds Woodcock, a sought - after dress designer in 1950s London whose clientele — comprising mostly wealthy matrons — see Woodcock's creations less as pretty dresses than a crucial part of their female armamentarium: «I feel like it will give me courage,» one of his customers says of an evening gown.

Phantom Thread's high - end fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock, who custom - makes dresses for royalty and hoi polloi in London circa 1950s, is as much a model of obsessive - compulsive mania as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007); this master - dressmaker works in softer and more pliant materials than the wildcat oilman, but is similarly uncompromising about his process and results.

Phantom Thread Daniel Day - Lewis stars as a dress designer in 1950s London, whose obsessive work habits distort every relationship.

At first, the inner sanctum that is The House of Woodcock, where the designer and his sister, officious, sexless Cyril (Lesley Manville), run their empire, recalls all those fancy - dressed fashion movies of the 1950s when Dior and Avedon were the rage.