Illustrated with a generous selection of images from Phyllis Dalton’s extraordinary archive, Alexander Ballinger tells the story of Phyllis Dalton, one of the most celebrated film costume designers of the 20th Century.
Alexander spent almost a decade in exclusive interviews with Phyllis (1925-2025) and the result is an entertaining and revelatory book about her work on films such as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V and cult classics The Princess Bride and Disney spectacular The Spaceman and King Arthur (1979), which was filmed almost entirely at Alnwick Castle.