- She began her career in the sewing room of the BBC alongside costume designer Susan Coates, later becoming wardrobe assistant to Kenneth Branagh on "Much Ado About Nothing.".
- She was the eldest of four daughters to Scottish parents Peter and Elizabeth Collie. Her maternal grandmother was a gifted seamstress.
- Trained at the London College of Fashion.
- According to star Cillian Murphy, Collie "invented the 'Peaky Blinders' look and silhouette that has become iconic across the world." She based the look of Murphy's Tommy Shelby and his Birmingham street gang on actual criminal mug shots of the period.
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