Oscar-winning British costume designer Julie Harris dies aged 94

Actress Ursula Andress tries on a chiffon dress, designed by Julie Harris (right) for a sequence in the James Bond film Casino Royale. Credit: PA/PA Archive/Press Association Images

Tributes have been paid to an Oscar-winning British costume designer who has died at the age of 94.

Julie Harris designed clothes worn by The Beatles in the films A Hard Day's Night and Help! and by Roger Moore in the James Bond film Live and Let Die.

The Beatles on stage during the film Help! Credit: Foto Blitz/EMPICS Entertainment

She died yesterday at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London after a brief illness from a chest infection, her close friend Jo Botting confirmed.

A scene from the 1973 film Live And Let Die starring Roger Moore as James Bond. Credit: United Archives/DPA/Press Association Images

Ms Harris, of Kensington, west London, won the Academy Award for her "Swingin' London" designs in the 1965 film, Darling, starring Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde.She was also awarded the Bafta for best costume design in 1967 for the film The Wrong Box, starring Michael Caine.

Dirk Bogarde and Julie Christie at Lord's cricket ground while filming Darling. Credit: S&G/S&G Barratts/EMPICS Archive

In 1965, after working with the Beatles, she said: "I must be one of the few people who can claim they have seen John, Paul, George and Ringo naked."

Ms Harris also designed costumes for the 1967 film Casino Royale starring David Niven and Peter Sellers, Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), Dracula (1979) starring Laurence Olivier and for the Muppets in The Great Muppet Caper (1981).

Ms Harris, who never married or had children, retired at the age of 70. She is survived by her god-daughter, Serena Dilnot.