Can you tell us about the process of designing the May Queen dress?

This dress was the biggest thing in the movie. I think we worked on it for two months because we had never made something like this before, and also Ari had a big vision for it. What was most important for Ari was that the flower dress look like a meadow. Not like a fashion statement. We knew it had to be huge and wearable. First, we had to find out how we're going to make the base of it. I think we bought around 10,000 silk flowers in the end. Even if it's silk, it's very, very heavy.



How heavy is the finished dress?

It was around 15 kilo. The actress [Florence Pugh] was a small little girl and she had to wear it and walk in it, so we had to first construct the base. We got the idea to make a hoop skirt for the base. My husband made it because he's an architect. It was more an engineering thing than a designer thing, the base. He made three or four versions, we kept changing it.

