Inside the making of Corrie’s Gemma’s spectacular wedding gown including drag queen designer
A drag queen has said they were "honoured" to design thejaw-dropping orange wedding dress that Coronation Street's Gemma Winter will wear for her wedding to Chesney Brown next week.
The gown, which took more than 200 hours to make, was co-designed by drag queen and fashion designer Liquorice Black, whose designs have already featured on the likes of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Liquorice Black worked in conjunction with Coronation Street's Head of Costume, Alex Hatzar, and actress Dolly-Rose Campbell, who plays Gemma, to create the perfect dress.
The 2-metre wide dress is complete with 125-metres of fairy lights, 10,000 stones and a 7-metre train was crafted at Liquorice Black’s studio in Manchester.
Speaking about choosing to work with Liquorice, Dolly said: "Myself and Alex in costume had lots of discussions about what Gemma would want as her dream dress and had put some ideas together. We decided on orange as a nod to Gemma and Chesney being ginger and also Gemma loves bright colours.
"Liquorice and I have a mutual friend and I had seen an exhibition of their work and knew they had worked on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK so I knew that they would be the best person to make the dress, I was absolutely delighted when they said yes."
Liquorice added: "I am from Manchester so it has been such an honour to work on this dress and to be asked to be involved in the filming of a wedding on the show.
"Coronation Street is a UK institution and I am so grateful to be a small part of Corrie history. I can’t wait to see it on screen.”
Elsewhere, Coronation Street Head of Costume, Alex said: “Dolly & I have talked about Gemma's wedding dress for years even before she was with Chesney!
"I've always known I wanted it to light up but wanted something different from just the skirt lighting up as we've all seen that before. I knew it had to be something with the wow factor & Gemma was never going to go for a white dress.
"Orange just seemed to work for the character as Gemma is so vibrant & it also worked for Chesney & the family she's marrying into!
“We had to storyline quite a lot of it to make it work as the character doesn't have any money so it was really helpful that Dolly & I had very early discussions, about 6 months prior to filming so we could liaise with editorial & they helped make it happen."
Speaking about Liquorice's contribution, Alex said: "It was Dolly's idea to get Liquorice on board, she knew them from Drag Race UK & loved the costumes they had made for that. I took one look at their Instagram page and was sold, they were just what we were looking for!
"We met them originally in December & talked through ideas. I'd put together a mood board of what I was thinking & what I wanted to incorporate into the dress but I also needed to make them aware that it still needed to be practical as Dolly would be wearing it for 12 hours a day & it would be seen from all angles.”
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