shesnake:

“The reason I love working with [costume designer] Jacqueline [Durran] is she works from a character base, and everything is full of symbolism. We viewed Anna as a bird trapped in a cage. Her veils and corsets are like cages.” — Keira Knightley

“The veils serve more than an aesthetic function… Just the idea of caging her, of hiding her more and more. A large element of Anna’s character is about shame, so it seemed appropriate in terms of that emotion.” — Joe Wright