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Dan Stevens’ 5-Year-Old Daughter Helped Design Belle’s Yellow Dress for ‘Beauty and the Beast’

While people have been raving about the new Beauty and the Beast movie and its record-breaking debut, one thing audience members can’t stop talking about is Emma Watson’s stunning yellow ball gown. On the British daytime television show This Morning, Dan Stevens, who plays the Beast, revealed that his daughter should actually receive some credit for the dress.

Stevens, who is married with three children, says his daughter Willow showed Watson her design ideas when the movie began filming. Watson went to Stevens’ house for dinner and Willow, just 5 years old at the time, decided to sketch five dress options after hearing her dad and Emma talking about the gown.

Watson looked at the sketches with Willow and chose the one she liked most. Stevens says when he took his daughter to set a few weeks later she took one look at the finished dress and realized it was her design. How cute!

We totally expect to see Willow on the next season of Project Runway Junior.

  Ariana is a Los Angeles native who is obsessed with fashion, celebrities, music, and food. She is a journalism student in Medill at Northwestern University who enjoys reading fashion and entertainment blogs and magazines. Ariana's favorite things to do are travel, explore Los Angeles, discover new music groups, and of course watch Gilmore Girls on Netflix. Ariana loves writing and sharing her experiences with you and hopes you enjoy reading her stories.