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Jacqueline West
The clothes of Dune distinguish rank and belief while still having to seem usable in a hostile environment. West's work, with Bob Morgan on the first film, makes a useful starting point for reading how silhouettes and fabrics organise a world. Watch the contrast between formal power and clothing shaped by survival.
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Deborah Lynn Scott
Avatar's digital characters still need clothes with material logic. Scott's team makes physical costume references as part of the process, so movement, weight and construction can inform what appears on screen. Her work is a revealing route into the practical craft behind an apparently weightless computer-created world.
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Bob Ringwood
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Ringwood's work on the 1984 Dune and Tim Burton's Batman gives power a strong physical outline. His Joker costume concept, pictured here, uses a long coat and contrasting textures to build a distinctive social type. Look to his work for worlds where an outfit establishes position and temperament before a character explains either.
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Ngila Dickson
In The Lord of the Rings, Dickson's clothing helps distinguish communities through cloth, colour and accumulated wear. The effect depends on many craftspeople and her collaboration with Richard Taylor, rather than one isolated drawing. Her work rewards attention to everyday garments as well as the grand ceremonial looks.
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Ruth E. Carter
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Carter gives Wakanda different cultural and practical vocabularies rather than dressing everyone in one futuristic uniform. Black Panther and its sequel connect craft traditions, technology and social roles through clothing. The useful lesson is how a richly imagined place can contain several identities without losing its coherence.
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Jenny Beavan
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The clothes of Mad Max: Fury Road suggest what people can scavenge, repair and carry through a harsh environment. Beavan makes condition and construction part of the story, with materials doing as much work as colour. Start here if the most convincing detail in a fantasy world is how somebody keeps an outfit usable.
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