Curio: Costumes, Designed

Alexa here. As I've been on a bit of a clothes-buying binge the last few days (Pats and Eddy were a less-than-subliminal influence), I thought of John Woo for my curio post this week.  No, not that John Woo; this John is an illustrator living in Hong Kong with a bit of a thing for Star Wars and fashion.  John makes illustrations of film characters dressed in the likes of Junya Watanabe, Comme des Garcons, and Band of Outsiders.  There is a J. Peterman vibe to the illustrations that I find hilarious. (Sidenote: remember when J. Peterman had all those Titanic-inspired items? Yeah, I bought the necklace. My only excuse is I was much, much younger then.) Here are some samples; you can buy prints at John's etsy shop.

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Comments

[Ashley]

Wow, love it..What I like the most is the costume of Queen Amidala, she's really cute.. :)
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[Janice]

The suits on the male character are very funny/ironic, but oddly enough the outfits on the two female characters here seem entirely appropriate to the characters as well as attractive. It actually took me a moment to realize that the Catwoman one was NOT her original costume, it fits so perfectly.

In terms of film costume or rather jewelry, I think I once saw a very good replica of the fancy diamond collar in Moulin Rouge on ebay, and I actually did consider it (where would I ever have worn it?) but it was a bit out of my pocketbook even as a fake piece.

[J.D]

That Catwoman looks a lot like Nicole Kidman

[Mark]

Yes, yes and yes.

That last one is absolutely perfect. She would wear the likes of him.