Costume designer Anna Robbins embraced changing trends in Downton Abbey: A New Era
‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’s costume designer found it “glorious” to put Laura Carmichael in trousers for the first time. The period drama’s second movie is set in the late 1920s and Anna Robbins enjoyed embracing the changing trends of the time period, taking particular delight in sourcing costumers for Laura’s character Lady Edith. She said: “I found a beautiful pyjama set for Edith and we had her in trousers for the first time, which was glorious. “It was the perfect moment. “As a forward-thinking working woman, Edith would have absolutely embraced wearing trousers at the earliest opportunit...