

"I wanted to know what they would wear for specific occasions, and just little details like when they would change outfits, when they would wear gloves and little things like that."Īs for Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, Deborah admits that the two actors trusted her enough to not get involved in the costume design process. "I did a lot of research based on the time’s etiquette, because that dictated what people wore, especially when it came to wealthy and poorer people," Deborah revealed. On Titanic, Deborah said: "I really threw myself into that time period by looking at every book, every fashion magazine - any magazine really.

Research is an important part of a costume designer's job, and Deborah told us that she often undertakes months of research pre-production. Michael J Fox as Marty McFly in Back To The Future
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It was doing something that I like to do, which is helping to tell the story through the clothes." "It was nice because everything was working together. " asked, 'Can you find us something that we could make a joke about it?' We went through a lot of ideas, and finally I came up with that, and a joke that it could be a flight preserver," she added.

"We needed to find an item of clothing that would be unusual in the 1950s, and something that could also encompass a joke", Deborah said about Marty’s life preserver jacket. One of her most iconic costumes was Marty McFly in Back to the Future. And Deborah also revealed that a lot of the costumes worn by Kate and Leo were original vintage outfits: "We didn’t want to destroy them, because they were precious items! We had a long prep on that too because we’d been collecting them from all over the world." Her latest film The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was released in the UK on April 16 but Deborah's career began back in the 1980s.
