From left to right, Laura Carmichael, Harry Hadden-Paton, Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville and Michelle Dockery in a scene from Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.

For British costume designer Anna Mary Scott Robbins, dressing the Crawleys in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale meant creating a closet of paradoxes. While curating the wardrobe of the beloved wealthy English family, she had to craft a vision rooted in the 1930s that balanced opulence with the looming Great Depression.

“More than anything, this film represents a window into a disappearing world,” says Robbins. “There’s poignancy in knowing what this family and world will eventually go through and I had to showcase that.” While the task was historic in nature, it was, as Robbins notes, “deeply important to reflect the sharp ta

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