Stephanie Collie Dies: ‘Peaky Blinders’ Costume Designer Was 60
deadline.comStephanie Collie, the revered British costume designer who worked on Peaky Blinders, Layer Cake and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels died October 26 of cancer at St Christopher’s Hospice in London following.
She was 60 and had a terminal cancer diagnosis six months earlier. Huge stars Collie worked with down the years including Daniel Craig, Samuel L.
Jackson and Cillian Murphy paid tribute. Her agency, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, called her a “highly acclaimed, award-winning British costume designer of multiple television series and feature films throughout a long and distinguished career.” Born in Cheshire in 1963, Collie first started working in the sewing room at the BBC before becoming wardrobe assistant to Kenneth Branagh on Much Ado About Nothing in the early 1990s.
Her big break came doing the costume design for Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock in 1998 and she gained a reputation for her ability to make gangster and period come alive.
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