Content area
Full Text
The Movie: "Sense and Sensibility"
The Setup: The Dashwood women--mother (Gemma Jones, pictured right), daughters Eleanor (Emma Thompson, pictured left), Marianne (Kate Winslet, pictured center) and Margaret (Emile Francois)--cope with a life in near poverty in class-conscious England when the family patriarch dies, leaving his estate to his son. Based on the Jane Austen novel.
The Costume Designers: Jenny Beavan and John Bright, who shared an Academy Award for "A Room With a View." The pair also designed costumes for "Jefferson in Paris," "The Remains of the Day," "Maurice," "The Bostonians" and "Howards End." Bright, who owns the London costume house Cosprop, also did "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and "Tess."
The Look: In 1800, the young and fashion-conscious took their inspiration from Greek statuary and other forms of Greek art. The English facsimiles were soft, draped, empire-style...