Wednesday, 23 May 2018

HOW PRINCE AND THE CLASH INSPIRED THE LOOK OF LANDO AND HAN IN SOLO

Hans Solo
Look closely at Lando Calrissian’s neck scarf in Solo: A Star Wars Story, and you may see the familiar lights of a Death Star corridor.

The pattern, pulled from an iconic scene in A New Hope, is just one of many eclectic and inspired creations to come from the costume designing team of David Crossman and Glyn Dillon.


The pair first joined the crew of costume designers on The Force Awakens, where being asked to conceptualize a new era of stormtroopers and mask Darth Vader’s grandson was a dream come to life for the longtime fans. They’ve worked on every new Star Wars film since, including heading up clothing the characters in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an ambitious undertaking that called for more individual costumes than any other film in the galactic franchise before it, the designers say.

To create the gritty world of Han Solo’s youth, and the inhabitants of the seedy underworld of smugglers and thieves, Dillon and Crossman pulled inspiration from Ralph McQuarrie’s original artwork, the original trilogy, and real-world inspirations as varied as the Vietnam conflict and musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Blondie, and the Clash.

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