Oscars 2013: Costume design nominees

Keira Knightley in "Anna Karenina." Costume design by Jacqueline Durran.

"A lot of 1950s couture was itself looking back to an earlier time," said Durran. "We looked at some images from the time next to fashion pictures from the 1870s and although they were eight decades apart, the two periods meshed together very well."

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