The piece takes direct inspiration from Gaultier’s underwear-as-outerwear collections, and has been the Halloween costume of brave souls ever since. Her first costume is some strategically placed restraints that form into a bodysuit/dress when she escapes her confinement. When we meet Leeloo she’s naked, but she soon dons an outfit - if by accident. Here we celebrate just a few of the thousand. Gaultier’s costumes were bright and fun they took inspiration from his previous collections while incorporating non-traditional materials and a futuristic vision.Įven after 20 years, Gaultier’s costumes remain an incredible and necessary feat of design. The costumes are colourful, exciting, and a world away from the grim rain-soaked worlds of predecessors like Blade Runner (1982). For a thousand costumes, he may have even done 5,000 sketches before narrowing it down”. It’s an incredible amount of work people don’t even know about. Speaking at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Gaultier retrospective, Thierry-Maxime Loriot commented on Gaultier’s attention to detail, saying, “a thousand costumes is like 10 collections but all for one movie. The film would likely not have had quite the same impact without Gaultier’s obsessive commitment. On board to design them was former enfant terrible of the design world Jean Paul Gaultier, who created over 1000 ostentatious, bright, detailed costumes for the film even honing in on the details of characters in crowd shots.
While the rest of the visuals are pretty impressive, it's the costumes that tie the whole thing together. Besson and his team, which included renowned cinematographer Thierry Arbogast and production designer Dan Wiel, worked together with the $90 million budget to bring Besson’s vision to life. What makes The Fifth Element so much fun is not only its fast pace and dialogue, but its visuals.
However, it was and still is fiercely adored it's exciting, a lot of fun, and revolutionised a genre that can so often be oppressively dire.
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It’s not hard to see why the film, then the most expensive non-US one ever made, was overly long, full of holes, and in need of, “fierce trimming”, as Roger Ebert noted at the time. French director Luc Besson’s 1997 sci-fi The Fifth Elementwas, and still is, pretty polarising.
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