We wanted to make them look like real garments.” She’s still finding herself, she’s a young girl.’ So they asked me to take those sketches and redo it, to make it a real coat, make it wearable. “In the beginning we did have sketches generated from Marvel where Wanda looked more superhero, and the brothers kept saying, ‘But she’s not a superhero yet. “She doesn’t look anything like Natasha, she doesn’t look anything like anyone else in the movie.”Īs one of the few Avengers to eschew a conventional super-suit, Wanda’s big-battle costume - a red leather jacket slung over a wearable corset - hews closely to street style, which Makovsky said is by design. “We were very careful in her regular clothes that they’re not exactly goth, but they’re very organic,” said Makovsky. Now that she’s living in the United States and has joined the Avengers, telekinetic Wanda’s style has changed, too: With her penchant for mixing dark athletic wear with witchy, thumb-looped thermals, she’s almost gone health goth. So we put him in white T-shirts and jeans, but always with a little bit of the feeling that someone else may have dressed him, because he’s not very comfortable in his clothes.”Īfter two modern-day Avengers team-ups and two movies of his own, though, Steve has at least started experimenting with layers: “By the time you get to Civil War, he’s a little more comfortable, so you can incorporate a brown leather jacket: Even though it’s a little reminiscent of the 1940s, it’s an updated version.” “One thing about Winter Soldier is that the Russo brothers wanted to get away from Steve living in the 1940s, but he’s still a classic all-American guy and we want to keep that sensibility. “When you put Chris Evans in a size-small T-shirt, it’s a good thing,” laughed Makovsky, who first dressed the era-straddling Steve Rogers in the Russos’ previous installment, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which the character is still trying to adjust to modern living. “I thought he would be confident and elegant in his taste, almost perfect, so we decided to look into the men of the 1940s, like Cary Grant: very simple flannel trousers, elegant cashmere sweaters.” They even topped off his look with the dandiest of all affectations, an ascot: “It’s sort of hidden under his shirt, but it’s there.” Makovsky’s vision for Vision clicked after she recalled the character’s unusual history: In Avengers: Age of Ultron, the synthezoid Vision essentially got his brain from Tony Stark’s dryly verbal computer interface, J.A.R.V.I.S. It didn’t go with the voice, it didn’t go with the attitude.” So we drew it, and it just didn’t look right. What would that mean? We started out with him more in comfort clothes, like sweats, or something really casual. “When I had the first meetings with Joe and Anthony Russo, we talked about the Vision trying to feel more comfortable at the Avengers compound and trying to fit in. To hear Makovsky tell it, though, there was a point when Vision’s sense of style veered into dangerously basic territory. When a short Civil War scene was released online a few weeks ago, io9.com writer James Whitbrook picked it up in a post called “I Can’t Get Over the Vision’s Sweater in These Captain America: Civil War Clips.” Indeed, it’s endearing to see Paul Bettany’s aubergine-faced superhero wearing button-down shirts and cashmere sweaters (as he does in the photo above) in a fruitless attempt to look more normal. What sort of style do these characters have when they’re out of their iconic armor and just lounging around like civilians? Below, Makovsky walked us through her most telling casual costume choices. While designing those custom-molded super-suits presents a variety of challenges, Makovsky puts just as much thought into the casual clothes her Marvel superheroes wear. “Making these films believable is one of the biggest challenges - it’s not like making a 1920s dress.” “A superhero movie is way more challenging than any other genre,” she told Vulture last week. Costume designer Judianna Makovsky has been nominated for three Oscars for her work on Seabiscuit, Harry Potter, and Pleasantville, but according to her, there’s nothing more difficult than working on a movie like Captain America: Civil War.
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