InStyle talks to My Week With Marilyn costume designer Jill Taylor
We caught up with award-winning costume designer Jill Taylor to chat all things My Week With Marilyn...
With a subject like Marilyn Monroe and stars including Michelle Williams and Emma Watson to dress, award-winning costume designer Jill Taylor certainly had her work cut out for her with the super stylish biographical drama, My Week With Marilyn! We caught up with Jill to talk all things Marilyn, Michelle and film magic…
And Emma Watson's character comes across as slightly naïve but fashion conscious. How did you go about defining her character through costume?
I’d found, in my research, an original cast and crew photograph of The Prince and the Showgirl. Emma was based on a real character and so there was a girl, or a couple of girls, that we could have chosen [from the photograph] so I just picked up on one girl and I based Emma on her because she feasibly could’ve been her. She was wearing a tartan dress, so I found Emma an original tartan dress – all of Emma’s clothes were vintage. I also wanted to introduce a touch of the American influence with Emma because the youth culture was just hitting at that period and we had Jimmy Dean, Marlon Brando, Sandra Dee. I wanted to pick up on that Sandra Dee type of character.