Star Wars fans willcosplay anything from the coltsfoot far , far away , particularly atStar Wars Celebration , where you ’re go to be among an audience that will get any obscure source . But just one mean solar day into the 2023 con , one look dominate all : Andor ’s prison getup .
From the official Celebration store to the hallway of fan - made costume , you’re able to not take more than a few steps in the London ExCel center of attention without spotting someone clad in all white , a slip of describe orange running down their sleeve . Even among stalwart Imperial Stormtrooper costumes , Jedi , and many , many Mandalorians , it ’s become clear that Narkina-5 ’s prisonwear is the hit of show . The irony is , at today ’s panel on the making of Andor season one at Star Wars Celebration Europe , costume designer Michael Wilkinson and Cassian Andor himself , Diego Luna , discuss how uncomfortable it was to wear the white uniform imposed upon the captive of Narkina-5 .
“ When we were n’t shoot ? I wore sneakers ! ” Diego Luna told the consultation of filming the Narkina-5 prison arc , which saw Cassian incarcerate and sent to a prison dominated by the sterile white smocks and shoeless prison garb of its inpatient — a irritation to accommodate the prison house ’s electrified floors .
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According to costume designer Wilkinson , that uncomfortableness was an designed aspect of plan the Narkina-5 press . White was selected as a chief people of color to be deliberately disorienting against the sterile blanched Imperial aesthetic of the prison house , and the industrial material was — unlike a lot of Star Wars design — intended to feel less lived - in and well worn , and more well disposable . The only acquiescence to color was the orangish print that runs down one berm of the garment — designate in - existence , accord to Wilkinson , as a way to identify individual prisoners quickly by the safety machine .
And yet , for all the uncomfortableness intend as part of the pattern , Narkina-5 ’s prisonwear has been a hit among rooter looking for a ready and dewy-eyed cosplay at Star Wars Celebration . The Running of the Hoods — the age - old fandom tradition of fans coif as Empire Strikes Back ’s iconic ice emollient maker - holding Bespin evacuee , Willrow Hood — is out . One agency out , is in :
Andor is position to retort to Disney+ for a second and terminal time of year in August 2024 .
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