Dressing the Past
Small Axe from director Steve McQueen required thousands of period costumes from its designers Hillary Atkin The Amazon original series Small Axe takes viewers back to a specific time in history in England for a specific group of people, those who traced their roots to West Africa and the West Indies. Lovers Rock, Mangrove, Red, White and Blue, Alex Wheatle and Education, each a feature-length film, dropped on five successive weeks on Amazon Prime beginning in November 2020. Each film tells separate stories set between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s, woven together by their ties to the co...