Grace Kelly, as inspiration. Specifically, Kelly as Lisa Fremont in Rear Window. “I asked myself, how do I see our women this season?
She's dramatic, she's really romantic,” said Wickstead ahead of releasing her collection in film form on Monday. “There's a quote from Hitchcock where he says that when he was thinking about the wardrobe for Grace Kelly, he was wanting her to look like a piece of Fifties china.
I love that.”It’s a long time since many of us have dressed up enough to feel that decorative but Kelly, who mostly only appears in her boyfriend Jeff’s flat throughout proceedings, is surely the posterwoman for making an effort wherever and whenever in her parade of Edith Jead- designer costumes, just as I’m sure Wickstead’s clientele.
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