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Fashion Fix: Sustainable Costume with Sinead Kidao

Published: July 24, 2020, 4 a.m.

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Model Charli Howard meets the designer taking costume change to a whole new level in TV and film.

In her day job, Assistant Costume Designer Sin\\xe9ad Kidao's credits range from period drama (Little Women) to Disney princess (Beauty and the Beast) and from the biblical (Mary Magdalene) to the comic (Aisling Bea's This Way Up). When not dressing Saoirse Ronan and Emma Watson's characters, Sin\\xe9ad runs The Costume Directory- connecting costume designers with sustainable and socially responsible suppliers all over the world.

In a pre-lockdown chat, Charli asks Sin\\xe9ad whether costume can ever be sustainable- and what can the rest of us can learn from her ethical on-screen creations.

Presenter: Charli Howard\\nProducer: Kirsty McQuire\\nEditor: Rebecca Stratford

Image: Presenter Charli Howard in a black vintage cloak (producer's own)

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