The Taming of the Shrew gets under way

Big events today on the Design Show & Tell. To everyone's dismay and Adrian Noble's fury, nobody was present from the set design team to introduce the model or answer questions. After the incredulity had subsided Adrian introduced me in glowing terms, and I took everyone throu my concepts - to varying degrees of comprehension(!)

In the afternoon we had the fitting for Bree Welch's costume that we were reviewing on Saturday. Noah Tafolla was there again to film so Maxwell came in too. Louise Powers' work was much admired. Bree had the perfect figure for the dress and was delighted with it.






Very few alterations were required, and as this is the bridal dress we left it long to create a train.








These are swatches for Fitzroy, an ambitious equerry, in Madness of King George.


I plucked up courage to ride my bike into work across the park. On the way back a passer-by, hijacked by Maxwell, took this photo of us with a statue of Kate Sessions, a lady who spent 60 years of her long life clearing Balboa Park of the desert scrub and planting the beautiful parkland one sees today.