To be getting paid for doing something I love.
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Sandy Powell
British costume designer
United Kingdom · b. 1960
Arts and letters
Born in London, Powell, 59, made costumes for the choreographer Lindsay Kemp in the 80s; she graduated to film after being mentored by Derek Jarman. She has won three Oscars and received the 2019 Costume Designers Guild award for The Favourite. Her next film is Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, showing at the London film festival next month. On 12 September she takes part in a Behind the Scenes Q&A about independent film with Mark Kermode at Autograph Collection’s Bankside hotel in London.
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Coffee, which is why I’ve given it up.
A daily massage.
Not meeting David Bowie, but then they say it’s best not to meet your heroes.
When I rode on the back of a motorbike from London to Rome with my eyes closed the entire way.
My friend [art director] Simon Costin who, in 35 years, I’ve never once seen in a bad mood.
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