«Breaking News» Oscar Queens: Olivia Colman and Helen Mirren shared the fashion crown

She may love to push the boundaries when it comes to style. But not when it comes to the Oscars.

Swishing down the red carpet in frothy pink tulle, Helen Mirren — who won her own Oscar in 2007 for her role as Queen Elizabeth in The Queen — oozed old-fashioned Hollywood glamour.

Her showstopping number in shocking pink boasted armfuls of tulle, and was made by French fashion house Schiaparelli. Fittingly, way back in the Fifties, the brand’s feisty Italian founder, Elsa Schiaparelli, designed the wardrobes for countless Hollywood films. Leading ladies such as man-eater Mae West relied on Schiaparelli to manage the balance of outright sexiness and femininity.

One dress took 1,200 hours to make. The other was paired with £4.5million of diamonds. Helen and Olivia shared the fashion crown

Maison Schiaparelli closed in 1954. But it has gone from strength to strength since it was revived in 2012 by Diego Della Valle, CEO of luxury leather goods company, Tod’s. Helen’s dress — estimated to be worth a cool £90,000 — was created by the brand’s design director, Bertrand Guyon.

The plunging neckline was offset by long sleeves and the full-pleated skirt was cinched at the waist with a fabric belt.

Helen, 73, added a quirky pink Tyler Ellis clutch bag — estimated to be worth £3,000 — and her trademark towering platform heels in Perspex.

And, if there was an award for Best Bling, she would have been a shoo-in, shimmering in 237 carats of diamonds — worth a jawdropping £4.59 million.

Helen’s Harry Winston set comprised the 22-carat Winston Cluster diamond earrings, the 136-carat Winston Cluster diamond necklace and the 79-carat Winston Cluster bracelet.

‘They’re worth $6 million (£4.59 million)! That’s more than a house,’ she confided to the Mail’s Baz Bambigoye.

Make that an entire street!

Olivia Colman never dreamed she would win an Oscar. But she promised herself that, if she ever made it big, she would treat herself to a Prada gown.

So when the design house offered to create her Oscars dress, it seemed heaven sent. ‘It felt like the stars had aligned,’ says her British stylist, Mary Fellowes — niece of Lady Jane Fellowes, Princess Diana’s sister.

‘The Prada team are so bloody lovely. It’s like getting ready for your wedding,’ says mother-of-three Olivia, 45. ‘And Mary knows what I hate about myself and want to hide.’

For her part, Mary told the New York Times: ‘Olivia has a real woman’s body. She’s a strong woman, a working mother and an independent thinker. These have always been major considerations when we are thinking about how she should dress.

The two women came up with ideas for the Oscars gown as they sat in a car en route to the Palm Springs Film Festival in January.

The A-line turtleneck creation was fashioned from emerald green silk and worn under a smoky grey silk organza cape that was gathered into a giant bow at the back and cascaded into a train covered in Swarovski crystals.

A team of eight worked on the dress for 1,209 hours. The embroidery alone took more than 300 hours’ labour.

And as a cheeky nod to her forthcoming role as another queen — Queen Elizabeth in Netflix series The Crown — Olivia asked Prada to weave a subtle version of the Royal Garter onto her bag.

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Main photo article She may love to push the boundaries when it comes to style. But not when it comes to the Oscars.
Swishing down the red carpet in frothy pink tulle, Helen Mirren — who won her own Oscar in 2007 for her role as Queen Elizabeth in The Queen — oozed old-fashioned Hollywood glamour.
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