"Marvin Long, Jr." wrote:
> Mild Ep2 "spoiler" below....
>
> And speaking of Jedi, has anybody seen pics of Anakin for Episode 2?
> Wearing some kind of black leather samurai formalwear on top of his Jedi
> robes? It just makes me wonder what a padawan has to do to convince the
> Jedi quartermaster to issue him something other than the regulation
> uniform....
Apparently wardrobe are trying to forge a link with the eventual Vader
character, so they took the basic Jedi designs and gave them a "harder edge"
using leather etc, so we see him as a Jedi knight, but we also see the
progression towards the helmet and cape stuff.
Cheers
Russell C.
Quote from costume designer Trisha Biggar follows:
Their initial thought was to give him a costume that would mirror the one worn
by
Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan) in The Phantom Menace. "But we wanted to have a
feel of the future to become, so we looked to aspects of Darth Vader's
costume,"
recalled Biggar.
"He's still a young man who's just at the beginning of that journey," Biggar
explained. "George [Lucas] said 'yes' to using leather, just to give him a bit
of an
edge. We really took the shape of Darth Vader's cloak and tried to steer that
back to a Jedi style to create a simpler outline than the traditional Jedi
cloak."
"We ended up with something that could still definitely be Jedi with the
hood,"
she said, "but just with that vaguely familiar outline."
