Real Beauty: Your costumes are truly breathtaking. Do you get the same reaction as the audience when you see your work or are you too focused on all the small details?

Jacqueline Durran: I always look at them and think,'Oh god that's not quite right.' But I'll tell you something about Anna Karenina: because after only 10 weeks of shooting, it suddenly changed to being [filmed] in a theater, it was very difficult to imagine how the costumes were going to look in the new environment. When we did Kiera’s fitting in the first dress, we took her onto the stage, and the milliner was there with her hat, the director, and the cinematographer—it was really a magical moment. It was extraordinary to see her in the theater dressed in this kind of 1870s style…I do get caught up in the detail, but I remember that initially I thought, 'Wow. This could be quite good.'