This exhibition has many beautiful costumes from stage and screen, with a particular emphasis on Scottish designers. Jane Petrie, from Newport-On-Tay has many glorious costumes included here, such as the regal gowns from the hit series The Crown starring Claire Foy, and The Essex Serpent with Tom Hiddleston and Claire Danes. A reproduction of Jackie Kennedy’s dress is also displayed here.
There’s also a chance to see Meryl Streep’s iconic Emmeline Pankhurst dress, also designed by Petrie, from the feature film Suffragette, Sir Ben Kingsley’ and Niamh Cusack’s stage costumes from Othello. created by Perth born Alex Reid, and Ros Little’s glamorous outfits from bodice ripper TV series Poldark.
Representing Dundee Rep’s stage, there’s Allison Brown’s playful colourful and quirky outfits for Scottish Dance Theatre and Kenneth MacLeod’s cheeky outfits for the recent stage musical adaptation of Oor Wullie.
Designs, drawings and fabric samples are all included here too, bringing insights into how the materials are chosen through painstaking research to bring real authenticity to time and place.
It’s excellent, like being let in on a little secret world- a small but perfectly stitched together peek behind the red curtain.
Photos by Grant Anderson.
Until November 15th,2026. Free admission.
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