How ‘Moon Knight’ Costume Designer Built Hero Suits Using Jersey Knit and 3D Printing
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans EditorMeghan Kasperlik, costume designer on Marvel’s newest limited series “Moon Knight,” was tasked for creating the looks for these new additions to Marvel’s vast universe.
A key costume was bringing the Moon Knight outfit to life.Kasperlik’s labor intensive process included working with a metalsmith, 3-D printing and piecing together layers of fabric with different patterns and textures (the Moon Knight costume features 45 different pattern pieces in just one arm), and incorporating hieroglyphic messages throughout the various costume pieces.“I met with Oscar early on, and we had a more in-depth conversation about what he really wanted in the costume.
I wanted to make sure the suit was fully functional and that he could move around in the suit. “The most exciting thing is that Oscar said, ‘I just want to feel like Superman.’ He wanted to feel really strong.’ So, it was about taking the age-old mummy wrapping and making it this very strong regal costume, and that’s when the armor came into play.
I also mixed up the patterns and the textures so the legs were not skin tight and they had a little movement and they showed his leg in this masculine way.“As for the color, that was a very big conversation because in the comic it says Moon Knight wears white so they can see him coming.
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