Secrets of the iconic big screen costumes
Fans may be surprised to learn Jon Snow has been running around with an Ikea rug on his shoulders.
Costume designer Michele Clapton said: “We cut and we shaved them and then we added strong leather straps and then [distressed them] ...
“I want the audience to almost smell the costumes.” hooker with a heart. Her thigh-high PVC boots, cutout dress and outsize red jacket tied round her waist has sparked many a fancy dress costume.
But the jacket was a last-minute addition, bought for €22.50 from a cinema usher by director Garry Marshall. Costume designer Marilyn Vance says: “Garry Jon Snow in rug would get something in his head and just want it.”
She bought the boots from a punk shop on London’s King’s Road. The mask murderous
Myers wore in the 1978 movie was based on William Shatner’s face. Halloween 2 illustrator Rick Sternbach, found out by accident. He said: “We had one mask left from the original and no Princess Leia might have been a warrior in the first two Star Wars movies but 1983’s Return of the Jedi showed fans a different side to her. Or, in fact, almost all of her.
The gold bikini in the Jabba the Hutt scene was made of metal, with a second version in rubber for stunts. Each was lined with leather.
“This was no bikini, it was metal,” Carrie Fisher said. “It didn’t go where you went. After the shots, the prop man would have to check me. He’d say, ‘OK t**s are fine. Let’s go’. So I started checking for any bounce or slip after takes.” Carrie