8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as Highgate Hill in Dick Whittington at the London Palladium, 14 December 2017.

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as Highgate Hill in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. Cut-out front view, coloured, pasted onto a second sheet of paper, showing the whole costume with its silver winged bodice and boots, green-trimmed dagged sleeves, eight-bell head dress, and bell-topped staff. Numbered:'2', inscribed: 'Highgate Hill?', and signed and dated: 'Durrant 2017'

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as Highgate Hill in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. Front view, uncoloured, duplicating the previous coloured view but lettered in red as a key to fabric use, with a coloured key to crystal decoration. Numbered:'2', inscribed: 'Mr. Julian Clary Dick Whittington', and signed and dated: 'Durrant 2017'

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as Highgate Hill in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. Diagram of tunic front, uncoloured, lettered in black as a key to fabric use, with the sleeves and lining noted as green. Inscribed: 'Highgate Hill Tunic front'

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as Highgate Hill in <i>Dick Whittington</i>, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. Diagram of trouser front, uncoloured, lettered in black as a key to fabric use. Inscribed: 'Highgate Hill Trousers Reverse for back'

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as Highgate Hill in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. Five swatches of silver and white fabric stapled to 2 sheets of paper labelled A to E, corresponding with the designs lettered as a key to fabric use

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as Highgate Hill in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. Seven swatches of fabric, three silver and white labelled F to H, corresponding with the designs lettered as a key to fabric use; two pink, and two green

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as Highgate Hill in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. Sheet inscribed by Hugh Durrant with the types of pink, orange, yellow, green, blue and indigo crystals to be used

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as Highgate Hill in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. Sheet inscribed by Hugh Durrant with the types of violet crystals to be used

Given by the artist

This is a set of designs, notes and fabric swatches for one of the ten costumes designed by Hugh Durrant and worn by Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells in the pantomime Dick Whittington at the London Palladium, 14 December 2017. As the star of the show Julian Clary wore what Claire Allfree described in her Daily Telegraph review as: 'a parade of exquisitely outlandish outfits', each based on his role as the Spirit of the Bells but working as gloriously ebullient visual metaphors relating to London, or to the Spirit's exploits in the action.

Dick Whittington was a lavishly designed production, the second pantomime mounted in the West End by Qdos after Cinderella, December 2016, which brought pantomime back to the theatre with great success after a gap of thirty years. Dick Whittington was followed in December 2018 by Snow White, each featuring Julian Clary as an outlandish and extravagantly dressed character wearing Hugh Durrant's witty and inventive costumes. In Cinderella he played Dandini, and in Snow White, the Man in the Mirror.

Hugh Durrant is an award-winning London-based theatre designer whose costumes for Julian Clary and Elaine Paige for Dick Whittington were nominated for best costume designs of 2017 in the Olivier Awards, April 2018. All other costumes in the production were designed by Ron Briggs, with sets by Ian Westbrook.

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