Snapshots from Ester’s wild life

would only end in 1989 with the peaceful Velvet Revolution.

It was her innovative work as a costume and theatrical designer that was her entry into film. Her approach was considered and imaginative – to create breadth in a character, she once said in an interview with Czech Radio, she might create a costume with sleeves of slightly different lengths, a costume that was perhaps too tight or too long, or missing a button. “No one would really notice,” she said, “but there is a certain