Interview with Chéri costume designer Consolata Boyle

Costume designer Consolata Boyle chats about her work with Stephen Frears on Chéri, starring Michelle Pfeiffer.

L'amour, l'amour: to celebrate the release of the Blu-ray/ DVD of Chéri, the film's Oscar winning-costume designer Consolata Boyle chats on camera with fashion editor Danielle Radojcin about working on the film with director Stephen Frears, the freedom of corsetless fashion, and what it was like working with stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates and Rupert Friend. 

Directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen, Dangerous Liaisons), and based on the novel by Colette, Cheri is the story of the affair between Lea de Lonval (Pfeiffer), a famed courtesan on the verge of retirement, and Chéri (Friend), the 19-year-old playboy son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux (Bates).

The film's sumptuous costumes - over-the-top hats, Empire-line dresses and chemise slips - and glamorous demi-monde socialising (Chéri is a Maxim's habitué) make for an evocative one-and-a-half hour diversion back to the romance Belle Epoque France.

Chéri is out to own on Blu-ray/DVD from 21 September 2009