Costume designer Annie Curtis Jones had many facets to her life and I knew only one: her ingenious designs for Notting Hill Carnival outfits as creative director of Elimu Carnival Band at Paddington Arts.She achieved lavishness, wit, flamboyance and an eighteenth century sensibility on a strict budget.
As designer and maker (trained at the Central School of Art & Design) she was calm and cheerful amid the clamour of preparations, never losing sight of the detail.
Forgive me if any of the unrepresentative pictures here are not her costumes - the chaos is mine and never Annie's.
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