Of course, I had a lot of questions while I was watching, as I am wont to do, so I thought maybe you could help me? And sure, I was pretty obsessed with this same mystery when I was a kid!
See my review of Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna for more. Jezebel calls him a low-rent Gerard Butler, and I feel like that does low-rent a disservice. So Rasputin shows up at some rando peasant house and asks to stay the night, making eyes at Peasant Daughter.
But I still enjoyed watching his eyebrows dance! Nicholas and Alexandra β married and crowned: Not bustles. She told Broadcastnow. As costume designer, the most important technical challenge was to be loyal to the story of the last Romanovs and bring the fantasy and romanticism that surrounded this family to life, as authentically as possible. I was inspired by Russian folklore and the European fashion of the time. I managed to get a great deal with one of the best costume houses in Madrid, which let me alter dresses that had previously been used in drama set in the same period.
I took a copy of a 17th-century dress, altered the corset, added an extra skirt and created new sleeves. The biggest challenge was finding fabric from the period. One day, one of my assistants showed me a picture of her living room in Vilnius. Her curtains were exactly the right fabric and colour for the task. After that, I realised buying bed linen and curtains from Vilnius and Madrid was a great way to get more metres for my budget and I was able to recreate a lot of dresses that way.
We also altered clothes from flea markets, which worked perfectly for Russian peasant skirts and heavy knit pieces for the town revolutionaries. One of my favourite dresses was for Alexandra: a cream and green early Edwardian dress that we created using a s dressing gown found in a car boot sale.
