Sands Films
Costumes hire & makes
Sands Films runs a costume making workshop...
...as well as a costume hire business...
...including hats
and
shoes.
The long and painstaking pre-production of the 6 hours "Little Dorrit" in the early eighties created the start of the stock of costumes and marks the period at which Sands slowly started making costumes for other film production companies.
Over the last 20 years Sands has made and supplied costumes and costumes making services to a long list of period films. The company has built a world-wide reputation for the quality of its work. The services provided are wide ranging: on some production we might only supply costumes from stock. In other cases we supply the workspace for the design team and make all the costumes in our workshop. Our offices are confortable and very attractive with modern telecom and IT facilities and only 10minutes from Central London. We supply space for hair and make-up and many productions use the studio other spaces for read-throughs and rehearsals at the time of costume fittings
Sands Films facilities include dying, textile printing, breaking down and embroidery work.
Click on the pictures above for a virtual tour of the "Laundry" workroom where we dye fabrics and construct all three dimentional items such as masks and hats. The Virtual tour was created by Clare Moran.
Below is a list of films and TV titles for which
Sands Films
made or hired costumes:
(the list is not in any specific order)
"Bel Ami" designed by Odile Dicks Mireaux
"Vintner's Luck" designed by Beatrix Pasztor
"Bright Star" designed by Janet Patterson
"TheYoung Victoria" designed by Sandy Powell
"Larkrise to Candleford" designed by Phoebe De Gaye
"John Adams" designed by Donna Zakowska
"I Vicere" designed by Milena Canonero
"The Duchess" designed by Michael O'Connor
"The Golden Age" designed by Alex Byrne
"Becoming Jane" designed by Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh
"The Other Boleyn Girl" designed by Sandy Powell
Pride and Prejudice" designed by Jacqueline Durran
"Vanity Fair" designed by Beatrix Pasztor
"Man To Man" designed by Pierre Yves Gayraud
"Jacquou Le Croquant" designed by Jean Daniel Vuillermoz
"Marie Antoinette" designed by Milena Canonero (this film got an Oscar for best costumes)
"Le Grand Meaulnes" designed by Bernadette Villard
"Gangs of New York" designed by Sandy Powell
"Phantom of the Opera" designed by Alex Byrne
Oliver Twist designed by Anna Sheppard
"Fingersmith" designed by Suzannah Buxton
"Land of the Blind" designed by Phoebe De Gaye
"North and South" designed by Mick O'Neill
"Casanova" designed by Michelle Clapton
"Tristram Shandy" (Cock & Bull Story) designed by Charlotte Walter
Topsy Turvy designed by Lindy Hemming (this film got an Oscar for best costumes)
and many others..... such as
"Great Expectations", "Gormenghast", "The Lost Prince" By Odile Dicks Mireaux
Carlo POMPEI
Theatre and Film Shoes Rental
has a permanent office and stock room at Sands Films.
