Gservo
13th December 2002, 09:14 PM
The Sydney Morning Herald reports:
As they head back to Sydney, the makers of the next Star Wars episode have issued a call for help. They need more workers for the costume department on the final episode - the one in which Anakin Skywalker is expected to become Darth Vader.
Costume designer Trisha Biggar is seeking "couture-level" sewers, costume cutters, dyers, milliners, jewellery makers and specialists in armour and metal headdresses to start in the new year. Filming on Episode III is expected to begin in about June.
"People at a really top-class level are hard to find wherever you're working," says Biggar. "We need more than we were able to find last time we were in Australia. And people move on."
The quality is necessary because the costumes for Star Wars have a life beyond the film. They go on tour and many are archived at Skywalker Ranch in California.
"We've always aimed to make them as beautifully as we could, so they look as good from the back as the front and you can look inside and they're not going to fall apart immediately filming is finished."
more here (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/13/1039656217578.html)
As they head back to Sydney, the makers of the next Star Wars episode have issued a call for help. They need more workers for the costume department on the final episode - the one in which Anakin Skywalker is expected to become Darth Vader.
Costume designer Trisha Biggar is seeking "couture-level" sewers, costume cutters, dyers, milliners, jewellery makers and specialists in armour and metal headdresses to start in the new year. Filming on Episode III is expected to begin in about June.
"People at a really top-class level are hard to find wherever you're working," says Biggar. "We need more than we were able to find last time we were in Australia. And people move on."
The quality is necessary because the costumes for Star Wars have a life beyond the film. They go on tour and many are archived at Skywalker Ranch in California.
"We've always aimed to make them as beautifully as we could, so they look as good from the back as the front and you can look inside and they're not going to fall apart immediately filming is finished."
more here (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/12/13/1039656217578.html)