REVEREND MOTHER

“For the Bene Gesserit I use the Tarot cards because there’s a real mysticism in Frank Herbert and I used it for Charlotte Rampling,” explains Jacqueline West. “I used the High Priestess in the Tarot cards, and then I combined a lot of Tarot cards. The Queen of Wands, the Queen of Cups.”

Jacqueline reveals she really loved using the Tarot of Marseilles as an inspiration, “which has a real medieval feel. I call this movie ‘mod-eval’, because I really went to medieval art and influences to create a world starting over in the future.”

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures LADIES-IN-WAITING “We referenced the spice market in Marrakesh in creating their colours, so inevitably they became the spice girls!” jokes Jacqueline. STILLSUIT IN ACTION “Herbert describes the undersuit as being a micro-sandwich of layers of microfibres and cotton that pull the oxygen out of the air for the breathing nose,” explains Jacqueline. AUTHORITY AND POWER The Reverend Mother Mohiam’s costume is a mix of chess board design, Tarot, and a Greek Orthodox kamilavka headpiece.