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WEIRD AND
WONDERFUL
Working in concert with costume
designer Michael Kaplan, hair and
makeup designer Peter Swords
King endeavored to ensure the
casino patrons’ costumes and hair
complemented one another. King
designed somewhere between
400 and 500 hairstyles, but only 60
were used. “A lot we pushed out
because they just weren’t Star
Wars-looking enough,” he says.
“They didn’t look intergalactic.
They looked too ordinary. We
wanted extraordinary, almost
impractical, impossible hairstyles
and makeup. It took us about six
months to get all these styles and
looks whittled down.”
Another aspect of the casino
customers’ look were the subtle
prosthetics King and his team
designed. These additions and
alterations—including the removal
of many extras’ eyebrows—are
barely noticeable, but were
important in making the characters
look “odd,” according to King. “A
good third of the women had all
their eyebrows blocked out. We
didn’t put new ones in. And it just
makes them look strange. If you
take someone’s eyebrows away,
it’s the oddest thing.”
He adds, “It was designing
with concept designers, scrolling
through books, taking infl uence
from the 1960s and ’70s and
adapting those. But then, just
some really crazy, wacky ideas.
It was brilliant fun.”
17 / Baron Yasto Attsmun
and Ubialla Gheal aboard
the Undisputed Victor.
(See opposite page)
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18 / Glamor is the order
of the day as Dynym Quid
vital aspect of making the casino scenes Wars vernacular. The team even utilized a milliner, (right) arrives.
a success were the costumes worn by which Kaplan believes is a fi rst for Star Wars, along
19 / Vylla Tendeil
the extras. Costume designer Michael with specialized makers of jewelry and gloves.
beguiles.
A Kaplan and his team made hundreds of Kaplan made a point of choosing the extras for
costumes, each one completely different, requiring the casino himself, picking the kinds of interesting, 20 / Grayla Stindy (in
a huge and time-consuming effort to source fabrics exotic faces that might fi t the Star Wars universe. white) with an unamed
from New York to Los Angeles, and from London The costume designer reports he was looking for Abednedo companion.
to Florence. Keeping in mind the black-and-white “sophistication, good posture, and exoticism. We
21 / Centada Ressad
theme Rian Johson had alighted on, Kaplan set were able to design costumes specifi cally for the dons an alluring
about finding prints that would fi t into the Star individuals we’d chosen.” a headpiece.
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