“What you see in the later movies is that he really didn’t spare any expense on the creation of these costumes.”įrench says the progression also had to do with the narrative. “In the earlier films, George Lucas was setting out with a pretty modest budget,” Drake says. That design process evolved over the course of Lucas’ six movies. The exhibition isn’t like something you’d see at Planet Hollywood rather, it explores how the costume designers constructed the pieces so that they’d move properly on film and connect with the characters wearing them. “We are really trying to show how this idea becomes reality,” says Saul Sopoci Drake of SITES. Currently on view at Discovery Times Square through September 6, 2016, the exhibition features more than 70 costumes, along with concept art and other insights into the design and implementation processes. Organizers say it’s the first official exhibition to focus entirely on Star Wars costumes, and it’s been nine years in the making. “Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars and the Power of Costume,” a collaboration between Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), the Lucas Museum, and Lucasfilm, will travel to a dozen cities through 2020. For the first time ever, an original stormtrooper costume from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi will be on display in a traveling exhibition, along with Jedi robes, Chewbacca’s fur suit, Princess Leia’s slave bikini, and other iconic looks from George Lucas’ six films. “They’ve become part of a visual language.”įans don't have to wait until Star Wars: The Force Awakens premieres this December to get their stormtroopers fix. “There’s really key pieces that…have entered into our cultural knowledge base,” Laela French of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art says about Star Wars costumes. Less politically motivated are the stormtrooper costumes ubiquitous at comic book conventions. Graffiti artists spray the white helmet and body armor, sometimes a symbol of tyrannical government, on walls around the world. Few costumes are as universally recognizable as the stormtrooper suit from Star Wars.
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