Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorCostume designer Michael O’Connor worked closely with director Francis Lee to create the period look of “Ammonite,” the new drama starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan.In conversations, Lee wanted O’Connor to stay away from red, keeping it for scenes of romance and passion between the two lovers.Set in the mid-19th century, O’Connor used a sea color palette for both women.
When it came to Mary Anning, the real-life person paleontologist who Winslet plays, she was dressed practically instead of in classic Victorian-era dresses.For Ronan’s Charlotte, a wealthy London woman, O’Connor added small details into her capes and dresses to represent a modern person.Below O’Connor breaks down the looks of “Ammonite,” now.