A Tailor of Two Empires

Bafta award winning costume designer Ngila Dickson profiled (+ slide show) in the New York Times. The signature of Dickson’s work on Lord of the Rings and Last Samurai is its fluidity and authentic attention to details. Her objective is to “create a kind of banquet for the senses – even to the rustle of her characters’ robes”. Dickson describes the challenge of mastering the complexities of traditional Japanese garb as “a sort of origami for beginners.” Her work on Last Samurai has been window dressing Barneys in Madison Avenue, NYC.