Costumier to the stars honoured by UK cinema after 175 years

Bringing swashbuckle and sparkle to stage and silver screen for 175 years, British costume maker Angels is to be honoured at Sunday's BAFTA awards ceremony for its outstanding contribution to cinema. The London-based firm boasts the world's largest privately-owned collection of costume for film, theatre and television and has supplied the wardrobe for 36 Best Costume Oscar winners, including "The Grand Budapest Hotel" in 2015. "He was a tailor and was sewing second-hand clothes in what is now Earlham Street (central London), a real terrible slum." Tim Angel, Daniel's great-great-great grandson and company chairman, told AFP.

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