The Sugar Plum (Nutcracker)

This costume is practically edible! A sugar pink tutu, with deep pink ombreed hem. Lavishly decorated panels on the top of the tutu are edged with gathered silk metallic tissue, and decorated with Swarovski crystals as well as rare 1920’s shaped and textured sequins. Smaller sequins glint through from the under layer

Hand made to order

Darcey Bussell says:

The Little Costume Shop's miniature costumes are little works of art, which will delight any collector. I really enjoy my beautiful "Lilac Fairy" costume, as it's a great reminder of my very first solo with the Royal Ballet Company (Covent Garden). It is very special.

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The bodice is scattered with tiny sequins, and the stomacher is overlaid with ruched pink silk taffeta and exquisite period sequins and glittering crystals.

Height 54cm (21 1/4”) x Diameter 33cm (13”)

Edition of 75

This collection of quarter scale costumes exhibited at the Royal Opera House has been created by costume designer Vin Burnham, who started her career at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in the Fonteyn and Nureyev era, making costumes and props for designers Nicholas Georgiadis, Yolanda Sonnabend, David Walker, Julia Trevelyan Oman, Maria Bjornson, Barry Kay, Stefanos Lazarides and Sally Jacobs.

Vin, now an international award winning costume designer, works mainly in film and television. Vin’s costumes can still be seen on stage at The Royal Opera House; her mouse costumes in Peter Wright’s ‘Nutcracker’, masks in Andre Serban’s ‘Turandot’, dwarf costumes in Anthony Dowell’s ‘Swan Lake’, and headdresses and costume props in Kenneth MacMillan’s ‘Mayerling’ and ‘Gloria’.

Vin has gone back to her roots at Covent Garden, by creating miniature opera and ballet costumes of her own designs.

Photographed by Richard Wilding.

As each costume is hand made to order, the estimated production time is 4 to 6 weeks. Occasionally, a longer production time is required, in which case we will notify you by e mail.

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