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‘Emma’ Costume Designer Alexandra Byrne On Balancing Period Accuracy With Creative Storytelling – Contenders Film: The Nominees

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Designing the costumes for Emma, the Autumn de Wilde-directed adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic period novel, was a balance between staying true to the era (the early 1800s) while leaving room for some creativity and artistic license, says Oscar-nominated costume designer Alexandra Byrne.“To design a period film you need to know and research the period, so that you can make decisions to enable the storytelling from a point-of-view of knowledge as opposed to a point of ignorance,” she said during Focus Features’ panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees awards-season event. “Autumn [de Wilde] wanted to know everything about the period, she wanted the comedy and the humor to come from period, it was our job to really understand it.

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