My Fair Lady

Jasper Conran faced the challenge of bringing a new look to a Broadway musical whose visual style had hardly changed in 35 years, when he designed the costumes for Simon Callow’s 1992 production. His dramatic and fresh designs ensured that the audience reaction was every bit as rapturous as the delighted response that greeted Cecil Beaton’s original designs in 1956.

The action opens in Covent Garden with costumes in sombre blues and greys, which contrast in style and status quo with the bright, old fashioned colours adorned by the society ladies and gentlemen.

His central flower theme is most vividly brought to life in the Ascot scene where the ladies parade in stalk dresses in shades of green topped with huge hats fashioned as roses, tulips, pansies and lilies.

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