Sandy Powell Costume Designer of the Cinderella Movie, is an Oscar award-winning artist who realized a generation’s iconic fairy tale into an array of color, fashion and fantasy. I knew from the moment I saw the press release pictures with the elaborate costuming for the Cinderella movie that, Sandy Powell was nothing short of incredible. The first thing I noticed was the vibrant colors. They just filled the frame like an explosion of flowers with rich detail in and whimsical flare that gave the decadent fabric a fairy tale home in Cinderella. Before the movie came out and before the red carpet World Premiere, I was hooked on the costumes alone. When I saw the over the top fabulous glass slipper, I knew Cinderella would be THE movie of 2015.

The Sandy Powell Interview

Her Childhood Cinderella

I wasn’t a kid who wanted to be a princess, but I loved dressing up. I dressed up in my mother’s wedding dress.

I remember my mother’s wedding dress and a bride’s maid dress in my sister’s dressing up box, and that’s what we dressed up in. So I loved all of that. But I don’t ever remember wanting to be a princess. I wanted to be a fashion model.

I wanted to wear fashion outfits and not princess outfits.

I talked to my sister about it the other day, ’cause she’s a journalist. She was in a group of journalists interviewing me in Berlin. She was asking that same question. I said I don’t remember. Then she said, “Well, we had that book of fairy tales, but I don’t remember you liking it as much.” So I wasn’t brought upon it.