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Kaplan won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Costume Design together with Charles Knode in 1983, for his costume design work on Blade Runner, the first theatrically-released film he had worked on as costume designer.
Oct 17, 2017 · Blade Runner 2049 costume designer Renée April told Vogue of her part in realising the dystopian universe. “I made costumes for the dark, wet, polluted, miserable world that Denis [Villeneuve] created.
- Starting with K’s Coat
- The All-Purpose Joi
- Luv, The Angel
- Mariette’s Drowned Rat Look
- The Zen-Like Wallace
- The Casual Deckard
April began, appropriately enough, with the black coat worn by Ryan Gosling‘s K, the new replicant blade runner. Instead of the noirish trench coat worn by Harrison Ford‘s Deckard, she chose a simple, inexpensive coat made of laminated cotton with a fake fur high collar to shield him from the pollution. It’s all he needs to protect him from the bru...
Speaking of Joi, who’s programmed to please K, she sports an assortment of stylish wear, popping in and out of decades, with both Eastern and Western influences. For example, the yellow plastic coat was inspired by big, colorful rolls of plastic April spotted in Italy. “She goes from the ’50s to the ’60s to a manga, to anything,” said April. “She’s...
As the femme fatale, Luv (Sylvia Hoeks) aspires to be slick and perfect, but wears mostly white and off-white to please her boss, Wallace (Jared Leto), the replicant maker. “I think that was inspired by the set and the lighting,” April said. “Wallace calls her his angel, so that’s why she wears white with a very stiff line. And you see throughout t...
Mackenzie Davis’ replicant prostitute, Mariette, reminds us of Darryl Hannah’s Pris from “Blade Runner,” especially when she wears that incongruous plastic and fur in the rain. ”I wanted to give her a sad look,” April said. “That plastic with fur, which doesn’t make any sense. Who would want to wear plastic with fur? It’s totally inappropriate. It’...
For Leto’s enigmatic Wallace, April was also inspired by Gassner’s Japanese-influenced set and Roger Deakins’ warm, caustic, yellow lighting. “When I walked onto that set with the water and fantastic lighting, I thought of Marlon Brando from ‘Apocalypse Now,'” added April. “You see him in the darkness and that’s the feeling I wanted to have,” she s...
And for Ford’s Deckard, who’s been comfortably hiding out in the once toxic wasteland of Vegas, like a latter-day Howard Hughes in his own hotel penthouse, April chose the simplest, most iconic image of all: a gray T-shirt. “We weren’t sure if it was too casual,” April said. “But a T-shirt like that has been around for a hundred years and is still ...
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Oct 4, 2017 · Costume designers Charles Knode and Michael Kaplan read into the noir elements of detective narrative and saw Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and Orson Welles in the beleaguered android...
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Nov 3, 2017 · Director Denis Villeneuve, cinematographer Roger Deakins, production designer Dennis Gassner, costume designer Renée April, the entire art department (really, the list is long) are all responsible for the neo-noir landscape of Blade Runner 2049 that managed to echo Ridley Scott’s dystopian vision in the original while taking it in their own, ...
Dec 6, 2017 · The future may be bleak in the world of Blade Runner 2049, but thanks to the costume designer Renée April, its inhabitants have never looked better.
Oct 22, 2012 · To mark the opening of the V&A’s Hollywood Costume exhibition, AnOther spoke to Blade Runner costume designer Michael Kaplan about his inspiration behind the sharp-angled suits and outsized shoulders of the Tyrell Corporation’s assistant Rachel, played by Sean Young in Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi. Designed with Charles Knode, the pair ...
