CINDERELLA'S BALL GOWN

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Daily Mail has an interview with Sandy Powell, the creator of Lily James's ridiculously gorgeous Cinderella ball gown. She revealed some of the secrets behind the iconic dress and they're fascinating:

1. There are eight versions of the gown, and they're all different. "One was 2 inches shorter and a couple were 4 inches for the times when Lily had to run; another had holes cut in the sides of the skirt for harness work." It took 4,000 hours to make all eight versions.

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2. Director Kenneth Branagh said Lily ate soup in the dress so she didn't go daft. I believe that's English for "going slightly insane from lack of food"?

3. Lily James said she wasn't photoshopped and that she was squeezed in within an inch of her life. She added that the bigness of the skirt made her waist appear smaller.

4. Helena Bonham-Carter, who played Cinderella's fairy godmother, gave Lily advice on getting into the dress, telling her to breathe out when she's putting it on so her waist would be as tiny as possible.

5. The top layer of the gown is silk crepeline, a very lightweight, fine silk. The layers underneath are made up of a synthetic called yumissima, an incredibly light (and very expensive!) material which floats that thrown in the air.

6. If Lily had to go to the bathroom with the dress on, they gave her a mini camping portable potty to slip under her dress! (Talk about roughing it.)

7. The designers aren't allowed to say how much it cost to make the dresses but estimates put them at about $12,000 each.

8. The corset and the crinoline (skirt cage) are made out of steel.

9. The trickiest thing Lily had to do in the dress was dance with the prince; he kept tripping on it! (Which, duh.)

10. There are three miles of thread in the hems and 250 meters of fabric in each dress.

11. It took Lily 20 minutes to get the dress on! Which is surprisingly less time than I would've imagined considering everything involved.

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ABOUT CINDERELLA

Cinderella is 19 years old with medium-length strawberry-blonde hair, blue eyes, and fair complexion. After her father dies, she is forced into servitude in her own home and is constantly tormented by her evil stepmother, Lady Tremaine, and two stepsisters, Anastasia and Drizella. Despite this, she maintains hope through her dreams and remains a kind, gentle and sweet person. She has faith that someday her dreams of happiness will come true and her kindness will be repaid. Cinderella is shown to have a down-to-earth attitude, but she is also a daydreamer. For example, in "Sing Sweet Nightingale", she becomes distracted with the bubbles, allowing Lucifer to smudge the floor she was cleaning. Also, after hearing that the Grand Duke is traveling the kingdom with the missing slipper, she dreamily dances back to the attic humming the song she heard at the ball. She is also shown to have a sarcastic side and a sharp wit.

With the help of her animal friends, she fixes up an old dress of her mother's so she can attend a royal ball. However, when her evil stepsisters brutally tear the dress apart, she is heartbroken and fears that her dreams will never come true.

However, her Fairy Godmother appears, restoring Cinderella's hope by transforming her torn homemade gown into her now-iconic ball gown with a glittering puffed overskirt, a delicate laced white petticoat, and puffy sleeves. Although colored silver in the original animated film, since the 1980s it has been colored powder blue. She wears her hair in a French twist supported by a powder blue headband with diamond earrings at the tips, and her accessories include powder blue opera gloves, a black choker, and glass slippers. Her look was probably inspired by 1950s French haute couture, while her torn dress is clearly inspired by Salvador Dalì and Elsa Schiaparelli's Tear dress.

As a servant, she wears her hair down in a ponytail, held in place with a blue ribbon, sometimes supported by a white scarf and wears a brown dress with a powder blue blouse, a white apron, and black flats.

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