"Bridgerton"'s Costume Designer Says This Wardrobe Clue Hints at the Finale

"As we meet Kate (Simone Ashley), she's in heavier fabrics. I used taffeta silks rather than the soft shawls that we've seen the majority of people in. I wanted her to look like she's got her guard up. She means business and she's stronger. Having her in these harder fabrics kind of gave her this armor. And then as we see her travel through her journey, we see her becoming softer. With Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) as well, he's in very dark colours. We see, as they move along together, he becomes lighter and lighter, and uses the teals to transition between the two characters."

"I wanted to make the sisters quite distinctively different. We have Kate who is in her jewel tone colours, which is her emphasis of her Indian roots. [We brought] pinks into Edwina's (Charithra Chandran) colour palette, which is the colour of love. That's her journey. She's softer. She's having those softer pinks, and then bringing out some stronger pinks as she gets stronger in her character. With Mary Sharma (Shelley Conn), I wanted her to balance both the sisters, so [we used] quite soft tones with her. As a character, she's quite delicate herself. I didn't want her to be overpowering in a way with the sisters."

"Jewellery for me is really important. I was fortunate to have three jewelers within the Bridgerton team. Every piece is made in house — well the majority of pieces. With all the jewellery for the mothers, I tend to take Georgian inspiration, and take modern and contemporary inspiration for the younger girls. When this was the Bridgerton wedding ring, this was Lady Britain's ring. I researched Georgian ceremonial rings, we chose pearls and diamonds, and were just like, 'Yeah, this is the look.' So we combined a few elements of period Georgian rings. We have to remember that this wedding ring has travelled down through generations. So, it's nice to have that period look when we're setting that scene."

"I found a French lace I could make three dresses from because Edwina would have to wear two dresses over the shooting period because she wears that costume for one month. It's worn for that whole episode. Laces are not woven; it's quite narrow when it's woven. I really wanted a long train. There was a lot of piecework to make that dress as long as it is because the fabric was a lot shorter. Having the same fabric for both dresses was instinctive [since] it was Anthony visualizing Kate. But also, I changed it so Kate's dress was a little bit sexier. There was more bust on show. There was a shorter sleeve. We saw more skin when we saw Kate in the wedding dress. We wanted her to look sexier because that's how Anthony was visualizing her at that time."

"There needed to be a maturity to her. Now, she's a mother. She was very pretty in season one. I wanted to bring something more sophisticated in the sense of [fewer] laced fabrics [for season two]. As we use floral laces, they weren't as decorative as season one. We were moving her into the mauves rather than into her blue colour palette. That was quite distinctive. [Hairstylist Erika Ökvist] really changed that look up as well. With her jewellery, we were going a bit more sophisticated, more decorative, and more period correct than she had in season one. That gives her an older look."