Keira helps V&A costume show become top hit

 
P11 Keira Knightley is seen with the dress she wore in the film Anna Karenina, which goes on display in the Hollywood Costume exhibition at the V&A in London.
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29 January 2013

Star visitors from Keira Knightley to Bill Nighy helped the Hollywood costumes exhibition become one of the most popular in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s history.

Nearly 252,000 people viewed the display of clothes from Gone with the Wind to The Dark Knight Rises, which closed this weekend, making it the second most-visited paid exhibition of the last 20 years behind 2003’s Art Deco show.

Knightley, pictured left, was reunited with a dress she wore in last year’s adaptation of Anna Karenina during her visit.

The costumes contributed to the V&A’s busiest ever week in October. The museum’s Damien Whitmore said: “We hope that the exhibition has inspired an elevated understanding of the art of the costume designer.”

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