Muir has received four nominations for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Costume Design and has won twice for Exotica (1994) and Lilies (1996). She faced a formidable challenge while working on the latter film, not the least in designing a very excellent ballroom gown for male actor Rémy Girard. Muir said that her approach was "not to dress men in women's clothing but to build [female] costumes for men's bodies."[1]
Muir joined the crew for Robert Eggers' feature film The Witch in December 2013. During the preproduction period, she conducted exhaustive research, which included consulting 35 books from the Clothes of the Common People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England series provided by Eggers, as well as other books and images on 17th-century fashion. She had also examined photographs of original garments in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Fashion Museum, Bath, that she took back in 1984. Muir created authentic-looking film wardrobes made of wool, linen, or hemp for an ensemble of nine principal characters. Operating on a limited budget, she pushed for an increase in order to better meet the screenplay's demands, thereby bringing the director's vision to fruition.[2]
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