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Olivier Nomination for Designer Gabriella Slade

2 April 2019

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Production and Design

Huge congratulations to Gabriella Slade, who has been nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Costume Design!

Design for Performance graduate Gabriella is the costume designer for Six, a new pop musical which has the ingenious idea of imagining all six wives of Henry VIII as a girl band.

In a recent Stage article about her designs, Gabriella described how she mixed Tudor style with contemporary pop culture.

So which pop stars inspired her?

Catherine of Aragon is Beyoncé, Jane Seymour is Adele, Catherine Parr is Alicia Keys, Catherine Howard is Ariana Grande, Anne Boleyn is Lily Allen and Anne of Cleves is Nicki Minaj meets Rihanna.

At the Oliviers on Sunday night, the Six wives took to the stage showing off Gabriella’s costumes:

You can see more of her designs on her website, gabriellaslade.co.uk

Six is at the Arts Theatre, London and you can find out more here:

 sixthemusical.com

Gabriella also designed the costumes for the Spice Girls Spice World tour, working with fellow RWCMD Grad Lighting Designer, Tim Routledge.