Award Winning Costumes That Brought Films To Life

Anna Karenina Gave An Old Classic New Life

The retelling of the classic story, Anna Karenina, was another movie that won both a CDG and an Oscar in the year of its release. Designer Jacqueline Durran combined fashion from a few different eras to create the gorgeous looks seen in the movie (especially where Keira Knightley, who played the title role, is concerned). “The ’50s combined stark architectural elements with a point of elegance and that feeds into Anna — she’s kind of the essence of those two things,” Durran explained in a 2012 interview with Fashionista. And it wasn’t just Knightley whose look was breathtaking — it was everyone in the entire film.