The Great Gatsby: this year’s best dressed movie

As Daisy Buchanan floats away from the celebrity-strewn party at Jay Gatsby’s mansion – the social collision where Gatsby’s hopes in her begin to crash – F. Scott Fitzgerald writes an infinitesimal chill into a line about her luxurious clothes: “A breeze stirred the grey haze of Daisy’s fur collar.” It’s a scene of rampant Jazz Age ostentation, replete with Broadway showgirls, drunken flappers and sozzled liggers – a gift to Miuccia Prada, in other words. It’s her grey fur collar – a tippet tied with a silk bow (pictured right) – that adorns Carey Mulligan’s neck as Daisy in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. Luhrmann, working with his costume director wife, Catherine Martin, asked Prada to dress the movie’s party scenes, an orgy