The costume designer on an embarrassing on-set confrontation and her love of sausage rolls
Born in London, Powell, 59, made costumes for the choreographer Lindsay Kemp in the 80s; she graduated to film after being mentored by Derek Jarman. She has won three
Oscars and received the 2019 Costume Designers Guild award for The Favourite. Her next film is Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, showing at the
London film festival next month. On 12 September she takes part in a Behind the Scenes Q&A about independent film with Mark Kermode at Autograph Collection’s Bankside hotel in London.
What is your greatest fear?Losing my sight or losing my mind.