Made with love! Jillian Harris and partner Justin Pasutto can’t get enough of their two children — and fans are right there with them.
15.07.2022 - 01:23 / nypost.com
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” out Friday, a plucky, kind-hearted cleaning lady (Mrs. Harris, played by Lesley Manville) working in 1950s London discovers a Christian Dior gown in a wealthy employer’s closet.
The strapless lavender frock, festooned with glittering embroidered flowers and lace trimmings, propels Mrs. Harris on a quest for her own couture confection, leading her all the way to France and Mr. Dior’s hallowed maison.The film’s costume designer Jenny Beavan told The Post that Mrs.
Harris’ rapturous response isn’t actuallythat far-fetched, historically speaking.“For [many] women, it was just fantastic at the end of [World War II] to see clothes that had such volume in fabric, after everybody had been scrimping on rations,” said Beavan, a three-time Oscar winner. In fact, Christian Dior — who debuted his line in 1947, as Paris’ demoralized haute couture industry was still reeling from the aftermath of World War II and the Nazi occupation — had a knack for driving women wild with his clothes. Literally: Mobs attacked models wearing his early designs on the street, tearing the decadent duds off their backs.
For the film, Beavan had to translate that exquisite excess on screen.The actual dress that inspired Mrs. Harris’ delirious desire was the iconic “Miss Dior” gown, made from more than 1,000 silk flowers. Beyond that piece, Beavan and her team created some 20 “Dior” garments — many faithful reproductions of the designer’s iconic pieces from 1947 to 1957. It “couldn’t be any old thing,” Beavan said of the fashions.
Made with love! Jillian Harris and partner Justin Pasutto can’t get enough of their two children — and fans are right there with them.
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Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, aside from whisking it's audiences away to the French capitol of dreams, takes viewers on a fashion tour that would make any archive-obsessed TikTok fanatic want to storm the halls of the Christian Dior boutique as if they were storming the bastille.
Wilson Chapman editorAs the title character of “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” Lesley Manville charms nearly everyone she encounters: homeless men on the streets of Paris, the heads of the Dior fashion house (including Christian Dior himself), models, dressmakers and racehorse track operators.
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Tomris Laffly The joy of achieving a certain je ne sais quoi gleams in Anthony Fabian’s heartwarming “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” in theaters July 15, about a widowed ’50s-era cleaning lady—Lesley Manville’s affable Ada Harris — as she travels from London to Paris to purchase a Christian Dior gown. Designing the intricate costumes with exact Dior replicas was the job of Jenny Beavan, in another couture-centric film after her Oscar-winning designs for “Cruella.”As a storyteller in her own right, Beavan was charmed by Mrs.
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