Designer Profile:Michael O'Connor
Academy award for best costume design
BAFTA award for best costume design
Satellite award for best costume design
Michael O'connor is renowned for his Academy award for the film The Duchess, in 2009.However he has also worked as assosiate costume designer on Harry potter and the Chamber of secrets and also the Last King of Scotland. Aswell as other minor British films.
His work came to attension to me due to my love for the film the Duchess. The use of millinery to create a persona fo Georgiana is a fantastic and originial method in which to design costume. The periodic costumes are exquitely designed and seem authenthic to the setting and the script.
Duchess of devonshire was seen to be the most influtential female figure in british society, therefore the costumes for this character had to be much more elaborate than the others.She set the trends.
The focul point of the film was the stuggle Lady Georgiana( Duchess) undertook in a bid for her husbands love.She is an important figure in political history as she was influetnail in shaping the beginnings of thr Whig Party. She was an english arisocrat. And was at the same period as Marie Antoinette, The 18th Century.
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