Stephanie Collie, the revered British costume designer who labored on Peaky Blinders, Layer Cake and Lock, Inventory and Two Smoking Barrels, has died aged 60. Collie died at St Christopher’s Hospice in London following a terminal most cancers analysis six months earlier.
Big stars Collie labored with down the years together with Daniel Craig, Samuel L. Jackson and Cillian Murphy paid tribute. Her company, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, referred to as her a “extremely acclaimed, award-winning British costume designer of a number of tv collection and have movies all through a protracted and distinguished profession.”
Born in Cheshire in 1963, Collie first began working within the stitching room on the BBC earlier than turning into wardrobe assistant to Kenneth Branagh on A lot Ado About Nothing within the early Nineties.
Her massive break got here doing the costume design for Man Ritchie’s Lock, Inventory in 1998 and she or he gained a fame for her skill to make gangster and interval come alive.
This got here to fruition once more along with her work on Craig-starrer Layer Cake and on the primary season of Peaky Blinders, the latter of which ushered in a mini trend revolution and gained Collie an RTS Award.
More moderen credit embody Argylle, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, London Has Fallen and My Girl Jane.
Craig stated she was a “pleasure to work with and will probably be deeply missed,” Jackson referred to as her a “splendidly joyous and collaborative a part of my course of” and Peaky Blinders lead Murphy hailed a “ferocious expertise.”
Tragically, Collie’s husband, director of images Hubert Taczanowski, who was additionally a Casarotto shopper, died just some months in the past.
