The Costumes of 'W.E.'

During her years living in London, Madonna became fascinated with a woman who also came to the city as an outsider: the Duchess of Windsor. It was an interest that compelled her to write and direct the love story W.E., out wide Feb. 3. The $15 million film centers on King Edward VIII (James D'Arcy), who abdicated his throne to marry the stylish American two-time divorcee Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough) in 1937. It was the couture-fixated Simpson who first pronounced, "You can never be too rich or too thin."