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Andy Klunder also designed the set and costumes and the original lighting was by Bill Besant. Descibed as ‘’a meditation upon death’s harvest in the First World War’ (Crisp 1980) is one of Kenneth MacMillan’s most important ballets danced by companies internationally and likely to stand the sets of time as a significant ballet. At its premiere the Illustrated London News May 1980 noted that the mood of the ballet ‘is enormously aided by the brilliant and imaginative designs’. The T&P collection at the V&A owns a costumes for a man in Gloria acquired for a man and a woman.\r\n\r\nThe women’s costumes are all-over lycra tights but in whites, blues, greys and silvers with floating chiffon knee-length skirts in panels from the hips. On their heads they wear stylised wigs with their hair coiled over their ears. Their make-up is pale and shimmering  suggesting that they were insubstantial memories.   John Percival in The Times 14/03/1980 noted that ‘Andy Klunder, has dressed the the dancers in greys and gingery browns. The men wear helmets shaped like tin hats; their tights are textured so that they look flayed. The women’s skirts hang in shreds like shrouds.’ \r\n\nThe costumes were made by Zeta of Switzerland and painted and dyed by Covent Garden. The head-dresses were made by Vin Burnham\r\n\r\n","physicalDescription":"Full length bodysuit, covering the body from the neck to the toe. The bodysuit has a low round neckline and long sleeves which extend to cover the wearer’s thumb and include elastic loops to secure to their fingers. It fits closely to the body from the shoulder to the foot and fastens at the centre back with a long vertical zip.\n\r\nThe upper section of the bodysuit is decorated with additional panels of fabric dyed in darker grey tones. This fabric has been appliqued to the ground fabric with visible top stitching and uneven overs of have been cut out of it, to expose the paler grey fabric beneath.\n\r\nLong hanging panels of delicate silk chiffon have been added to the front and rear waistline. 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Both include handwritten annotation in ink, with the name: ‘FILIPI RAINE’. 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