The award-winning designer gives a behind-the-scenes look at the costumes for the Princess Diana play.
“I could retire on this if I sold it,” says William Ivey Long, plucking one of the many books blanketing his work table in the middle of his TriBeCa design studio in Manhattan. He flips open the prized possession: a catalogue for the sale of Princess Diana’s dresses in New York, two weeks before she died.
He called the show’s director, Christopher Ashley of “Come From Away” fame, and asked him to stop by the studio when he was in town. They’d already worked together on six shows, and Long is one of the most in-demand theater costumers.
“What we did in La Jolla was one thing,” says Long. “We’re now in the city where people knew her, friends of hers live here.” Case in point: Long sat next to one of those friends, Jane Churchill, at an event a month ago. “Boy, she was picking my brains. And all I said was, ‘I hope you love it!'” “I think that’s the point: they’re really beautiful clothes, made to fit a certain person,” he says. “The idea is every time [Diana] appeared in public she looked gorgeous. I’ve shifted some of the proportions so when she comes out, every moment is beautiful, and it’s to the 2020 eye.
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