Stephanie Collie obit

Stephanie Collie Dies: ‘Peaky Blinders’ Costume Designer Was 60

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Stephanie Collie, the revered British costume designer who worked on Peaky Blinders, Layer Cake and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels died October 26 of cancer at St Christopher’s Hospice in London following. She was 60 and had a terminal cancer diagnosis six months earlier.

Huge stars Collie worked with down the years including Daniel Craig, Samuel L. Jackson and Cillian Murphy paid tribute. Her agency, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, called her a “highly acclaimed, award-winning British costume designer of multiple television series and feature films throughout a long and distinguished career.”

Born in Cheshire in 1963, Collie first started working in the sewing room at the BBC before becoming wardrobe assistant to Kenneth Branagh on Much Ado About Nothing in the early 1990s.

Her big break came doing the costume design for Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in 1998, and she gained a reputation for her ability to make gangster and period looks come alive.

This came to fruition again with her work on Craig starrer Layer Cake and on the first season of Peaky Blinders, the latter of which ushered in a mini fashion revolution and won Collie an RTS Award.

More recent credits include Argylle, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, London Has Fallen and My Lady Jane.

Craig said she was a “joy to work with and will be deeply missed,” Jackson called her a “wonderfully joyous and collaborative part of my process,” and Peaky Blinders lead Murphy hailed a “ferocious talent.”

Collie’s husband, director of photography Hubert Taczanowski, who was also a Casarotto client, died just a few months ago.

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