2022
Disney+
Moon Knight
COSTUME DESIGN: Meghan Kasperlik
HEAD OF VISUAL DEVELOPMENT: Ryan Meinerding
Bringing fan favourite comic book characters to the screen is always a challenge, and one we enjoy taking on at FBFX.
The many skills of the soft costume department were called on for Marvel’s 2022 series Moon Knight starring Oscar Issac. With concept art by Mavel’s head of visual development, Ryan Meinerding and costume design by Meghan Kasperlik, soft costume was charged with making a suit that gave the impression of being made from bandage wraps.
In reality, of course, the costume also needed to be easy to dress and allow for plenty of movement. Easier said than done! To create the illusion of a continuous bandage wrap, 1013 pattern pieces were created and cut for each hero and stunt suit - nine suits in total - each fabric piece secured in its particular place using bonding, sewing and glue.
The stretch fabric used was dimensionally printed in house, with a different, deeper dimensional texture used for the trousers. Multiple iterations of the fabric designs were created and shared with costume designer Meghan Kasperlik over Zoom, Covid lockdowns making in-person fittings impossible - another challenge to navigate! Hidden hieroglyphs were incorporated throughout the costume and cape, printed onto fabric and laser cut.
In addition to the soft components, the costume incorporated hard armoured pieces moulded and cast in the workshop to add definition and support, including pauldrons, knee and elbow pads and even a detachable crescent dart weapons as part of the gold breastplate.
To allow for action and stuntwork, it was a costume of many parts: trousers, tac vest, a top with sleeves, gloves, vambraces (which featured the fabric design modelled in Zbrush and sprayed in PU), chest pieces, hood, collar, mask, and incredible, billowing cape. Fastenings were designed in zig-zags to maintain the appearance of bandages.
Boots were made by specialist shoemakers Jitterbug Boy in Canada.
FBFX also fabricated the Mr Knight mask, a vac formed shell and handstitched fabric cowl, a lightweight open weave with dimensionally printed texture and colour.
Despite the complexity and challenges of working between London, Budapest, the US and Canada over Zoom during lockdown, it was a great collaboration on a very complex job, with the much-anticipated series proving a big hit with fans.
Watch Adam Savage and Tested’s look at the Moon Knight suit here.
