Keira Knightley Comes Out of Fashion ‘Retirement’ For Erdem

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is not persuaded out of the cosy confines of her private life easily, but she will step back into the fray for Erdem Moralioglu and the Duchess of Devonshire.

The period-drama favorite journeyed to Derbyshire’s Chatsworth House—one of the stately locations for , starring Knightley herself as a deliciously defiant Elizabeth Bennet—to see the opening of , an exhibition paying homage to the late dowager duchess, Deborah Cavendish, through Moralioglu’s lens.Erdem, as fans will know, made the former Mitford girl affectionately called “Debo” the after he fell for the “push and pull” of the two sides of her eclectic personality.

Deborah was a keen Elvis fan who loved rare-breed chickens and cast a spell over legions of men; having once declared she would marry a duke, she wed Lord Andrew Cavendish, who unexpectedly became one.

She threw herself into restoring Chatsworth, the Devonshire family seat known as the Palace of the Peaks, with the same gusto she had for collecting insect jewelry.Erdem Moralioglu and Keira KnightleyJenna ColemanAt the time, Candida Lycett Green reported for British Vogue that the country pile the size of Harrods needed “2,592 lightbulbs to light its 297 rooms (of which 48 are gigantic), 1,000 meters of passages, and 17 staircases,” while the various animals living in the 105 acres of grounds required hands-on care. “Debo is always up to the minute, state of the art, looking forward to tomorrow,” said Lycett Green of the duchess’s infectious zest for life, zero pretensions, and exquisite turn of phrase.