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's Hermione Granger, nowadays Emma Watson is known for being a feminist ambassador - so it's no surprise that she's had a lot of input in modernising Belle's iconic yellow dress in Disney's live-action remake of

, the film's costume designer, Jacqueline Durran said: The dress was designed with easy, active moment in mind – Watson isn't wearing a corset underneath.

In Emma's reinterpretation, Belle is an active princess. She did not want a dress that was corseted or that would impede her in any way.

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She continued: [Belle's shoes] are heeled, 18th-century shoes, but they are something that Belle can run in and that she can go off and save her father in.

The scene that I wear that dress in, and I have that dance in, it really tells the story of Beast and Belle falling in love.

You know, we don't have a huge amount of time in the story to tell that story. The dance, for me, is really where the audience starts to see it happening and starts knowing that it is happening.

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This is total, blissful escapism. You are transported to another world. The dress, and the dancing, and the candlelight, and the music — it was really fun to work on every aspect of that.

The actress added: Jacqueline Durran is just such a wonderful person and costume designer. I think she did such a amazing job.

I was like, 'Well, there was never very much information or detail at the beginning of the story as to why Belle didn't fit in, other than she liked books. Also what is she doing with her time?'

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So, we created a backstory for her, which was that she had invented a kind of washing machine, so that, instead of doing laundry, she could sit and use that time to read instead. So, yeah, we made Belle an inventor.

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So, we created a backstory for her, which was that she had invented a kind of washing machine, so that, instead of doing laundry, she could sit and use that time to read instead. So, yeah, we made Belle an inventor.

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