At 02:16 20/11/2007, you wrote:
In a message dated 11/19/2007 9:10:36 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm sorry, but I have to correct you. The person who made the "Wives"
costumes for the BBC series was not Janet Arnold, but Jean Hunnisett
I also THOUGHT Janet Arnold also lectured on the subject, but I could be
wrong. I remember, in the early 1990s, she was making the rounds in
the US, and
I heard her speak on both the Medici Grave Clothes and one other
topic--either it was "Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd" (which of
course we know she wrote
about) OR the wives of Henry VIII. Sorry this is so vague--but I traveled
almost 200 miles to hear her speak on the one she HADN'T spoken on, only to
learn she was repeating one I had already heard. But I
can't remember which was
which!
Are you SURE she didn't consult on Henry VIII, even if she didn't design it?
Oh, yes, I'm very sure. I knew Jean Hunnisett very well, and she got
very indignant when people suggested that Janet Arnold had influenced
the making of both "Henry" and "Elizabeth", and in fact asked me to
make it very clear in an obituary I wrote on her, under her
instruction. Janet was researching "QEWU" at the time of Elizabeth,
and knew the director's wife, so was invited on set to see how things
were. She took loads of photos, which must be somewhere. She and Jean
already knew each other through membership of the Costume Society,
and Janet offered to make some ruffs, as that was her particular area
of research at the time. That was her only involvement in either of
the two series, according to Jean.
The designer of "The 6 Wives" was John Bloomfield
(http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/henry.htm), a theatre designer, ho
was still designing when Jean left Glyndebourne a year or so before
she died. The designer of "Elizabeth R" was Elizabeth Waller
(http://www.pfd.co.uk/clients/wallere/t-cde.html), who I also know,
and worked for (the worst ever job) on "Company of Wolves".
Suzi
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