King’s Foundation x Amazon MGM Costume Craft Programme
2025 - 2026
Explore a portfolio of work from the inaugural Costume Craft Programme. Based at Dumfries House, this fellowship delivered up-skilling workshops in heritage costume craft for film, television and theatre. Additionally, placements on Amazon MGM productions at Elstree and Shepperton studios.
Workshops included shoemaking, tailoring, leatherwork, embroidery, breakdown, natural dye, batch and made-to-measure production.
The programme concluded with a personal project. The concept selected was a Belle Époque ballgown designed and constructed for an 1890s reimagining of Amazon MGM’s ‘My Lady Jane’.
Photography by Tom Duncan, Twin City Pictures
Shoemaking
Passementerie Weaving
Natural Dye & Print
Leatherwork
Batch production for crowd: 1800s shirt
The Tempest, Ariel: An entirely up-cycled piece comprising lace wings, smocked corset and lunéville-embroidered skirt.