Why was Keira/Cecilias evening gown such an unusual shade of green?
Joe said he wanted a green dress. Green is a very symbolic color, but I never wanted to pin down exactly what green meant to him. It’s an open-ended symbol that means many things to many people. I think of green as temptation but that’s just me. Was it hard to find the perfect green? Oh, yes. We didn’t! We found all the green silk and organza fabrics in London and ended up with three green choices: a lime- green silk, a black and green organza and another green chiffon. Then we took the swatches to a master dyer in London and had him special dye 100 yards of plain white fabric into that rich green. The dress was the composite of those three hues. What else had to be considered for that pivotal dress? Joe wanted the gown to have a wide hemline so that it moved beautifully when she walked. He knew he was going to shoot the ground and the dress billowing. It also had to be a dress that she looked almost naked in, as fine a fabric as possible, and loose-bodied. Instead of traditional ’30s
