Shirley Ann Russell

And so he has alternative ways of dealing with that.

His wife at the time is Shirley Russell, who's the costumer on this movie.

Oh, yeah.

Yes.

And Shirley Russell is very well known within the costuming community as being kind of like a revolutionary in terms of these period pieces.

And that she would go out and search all over the country, all over the UK, for accurate vintage pieces.

And then remake them in order to accommodate the costume.

I think he died when he was like 47, like way too young.

We do have the costume designer, which is Shirley Ann Russell, which is Ken Russell's wife.

And there is like a really cute anecdote about like his kids seeing like all the drawings in the house, like as they were making the devils and how ornate they are.

yeah I just think that's very

cute it's so cute and then also she like helped him dress because he was in like things that aren't full costumes but they kind of feel like a costume so if you see any like behind the scenes he's usually wearing like a monk's garb or something like that and that's because you know his wife was Shirley Ann Russell That's so cool.

Yeah, she was awesome.

People were saying that she could like date a portrait just by the clothes alone.