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The emerald-green dress which Keira Knightley wore in "Atonement" (2007) was named as "greatest film costume ever" by InStyle Magazine. Joe Wright had asked costume designer Jacqueline Durran to create a “memorable” dress for the library scene. According to Wright, Durran deliberately kept the seam down the middle of the skirt open, which would normally be sewn shut in a dress design for "easy access" in this scene. Durran said, "Wright knew that he wanted movement in the skirt. He liked the idea of it being bare-backed. But really, apart from that, there was very little instruction—direct instruction—from him about what the dress should be like. He wanted it as showstopping as we could make it, and that it should be green" Rather than just making 1 green dress, the costume team actually produced multiple versions of the dress due to its fragility—with Knightley auctioning off the one from her collection for charity in 2009. It went under the hammer for $35,000, with an LA Times article at the time noting that “someday the dress could be right up there” with Audrey Hepburn’s costume in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961) , or Marilyn Monroe’s white halterneck dress in "The Seven Year Itch" (1955). ("The Story Behind Keira Knightley’s Emerald-Green Slip Dress From Atonement", Emily Chan, Vogue, 2025 and IMDb) P.S: On this day, 19 years ago, "Atonement" (2007) premiered at the Malmö Filmdagar, Sweden.