Sorry, if cosplayers are looking for a place to buy Leonardo DiCaprio’s Dad Robe from “Next Battle”, you will have a hard time finding it.
Movie costume designer Colleen Atwood confirms that it was made from old fabric. “I found some vintage-looking fabrics and created the multiples I needed for my robe,” she tells Variety.
In this weekend’s Paul Thomas Anderson film, DiCaprio will play Bob, the father of an innovative, transformed Stoner.
Originally, the idea was that Bob was wearing a sweatshirt. But Atwood says, “I don’t know if it was Paul or Leo who said, ‘What if he was just in his robe?’ And Bob recalls the vague character in Jeff Bridges’ “Big Lebowski,” and spends a significant portion of the film in his robe.
At the film’s premiere, DiCaprio described his character as a guy who “sits at home and sucks pots” and said he “takes a lot of inspiration” from Bridge’s performance.
The plaid robe itself was made from a cotton wool blend. “It’s an old, cheap father’s robe. It’s a comfortable and cozy robe. And we’ve aged a lot of the fabric.”
And finding an outfit for him became a fluid process where sunglasses and hats came into the mix.
Bob’s sneakers had to be considered too.
“A lot of things, Leo did it myself, so we had to protect him from the world,” explains Atwood. “Someone told him about these sneakers that are popular with runners, so we dialed the brand.” Apparently Leo likes the wide toe box as he ends up wearing an Altra Lawn Peak Trail Runner along with an orange sole. “They’re great because we got filthy to them, but you’ll see a bit of an orange show.”
Like Atwood’s joke, for those like him who want to dress Bob’s Halloween in their robes, “A lovely goodwill shop does the job.”
Elsewhere, Willa’s ensemble in a dance with a petticoat dress was inspired by what Anderson saw. “We had camera tests on various dresses before Chase was cast and sparkled Paul’s eyes,” Atwood says. She had ideas in mind, but when Anderson and film production designer Florencia Martin attended Eureka High School, the director saw a young girl in an old petticoat skirt. Atwood says, “Paul goes, ‘I really liked it.’ So I first made it out of faded, dirty pink. ”
However, when Atwood saw the environment and the characters were emotionally in their place, Pink looked more vulnerable, so Atwood switched it to blue. “It was a better colour, and in our world it looked more understated with the jacket.”
Sergio, the teacher of Benicio del Toro, runs a karate dojo where Willa trains. In finding out his appearance, Atwood went to Del Toro’s house for fitting and took a series of options for him, including a white caltaine. The first idea was that he would wear it in a Puma zip-up jacket. “But it didn’t make sense to chase him in a completely white outfit,” Atwood says. “Everyone in their righteous minds left the top, so people wouldn’t have been able to identify him.”
In the film, he relaxes after work and is at the dojo. That’s why Atwood collaborated with custom denim designer Jimmy McBride. “He had this jacket I knew, and it was too flashy. So we took the line of it and did it basically,” she says. McBride stripped his jacket into a chain-stitched embroidered jersey jacket that suited the teacher’s atmosphere.
To complete the look, Atwood put him in the cowboy boots he found in New Mexico. “I made (they) his size.” She said, “They are crosses between the boots’ “rebels without cause” and the cowboy boots leaning west. ”
