To make her costumes, Biggar searched the world for fabrics. One costume, a peacock and brown gown from “Revenge of the Sith,” replete with Cornely cording – a twist of four or five colored threads that, according to Biggar “highlight the colors of the velvet” – never appeared onscreen. “When you’re creating something like these costumes, you have no idea of quite how long they’re going to be onscreen,” she said in an interview. That viewers might see her work for only seconds, if at all, was something Biggar accepted.
Artist San Jun Lee recalled: “We probably made 3,000 concept drawings for ‘Revenge of the Sith.’ ” Working alongside them, Biggar would make the concepts wearable. Conceptual artists would create drawings based on Lucas’ ideas, get feedback, and redraw them. In the conceptual process, Lucas and Biggar worked closely together. “Then it represents the culture from which it comes.” The costume has to be designed around the psychology of the character,” he said. “The primary job of a costume is to help develop the character. In an interview, Lucas explained why costuming was so important to making an imagined world seem real. The exhibit brings together for the first time costumes from all six “Star Wars” films, including the original Han Solo outfit from “Star Wars,” Princess Leia’s snowsuit from “The Empire Strikes Back” and the movie’s robots, R2-D2 and C3PO.
It serves as the catalog for the “Star Wars” costume exhibit under way at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandizing in Los Angeles. Her work “exceeded my highest expectations,” Lucas writes in his introduction to the book. Most of the book celebrates the work of Scottish costume designer Trisha Biggar. More than just a lushly illustrated book of costumes, this is a “how” book – how George Lucas and his gifted supporting cast created the richly textured backdrop of the fall of democratic Republic and the rise of the Empire with its chief enforcer, the evil Darth Vader.
“Dressing a Galaxy: The Costumes of Star Wars” is a book to make the hearts of fashion, costume and “Star Wars” fans sing.
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