Potter’s Sixties Take

Set designers find inspiration in the 1960s


by Willow Green |
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While the security surrounding every facet of the upcoming Harry Potter movies has meant that precious few details have slipped through the net, occasionally some news slips into Empire Online's lap. This morning, we hear that the set designers for the movie have taken inspiration from a designer more associated with the 1960s than the 21st century. Fabric designer Celia Birtwell, whose husband dressed the likes of Elizabeth Taylor, Faye Dunaway and Mick Jagger back in the Swinging Sixties, was visited by the Potter set designers who took away a swathe of fabric called History. 'It is a beautiful dark red velvet covered in stars and moons and fantasy horses,' Birtwell tells Vogue.Com. 'But we don

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