I was like, 'I wonder how I can take this idea and translate it to a Harley Quinn World?'' says Benach, adding: And everything we created for her had this DIY aspect, like she could make these things herself. 'I had seen a sweater-jacket that had these yarn, fringe sleeves, and I loved the movement in it. This continues as Harley Quinn gets soon caught in a chase, which she conducts in a jacket made of caution tape tassels. Pictures' 'Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn.)' Photograph by Claudette Barius Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary and Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn in Warner Bros. She's doing that thing you do when you have your newly found freedom from a relationship that's toxic.' 'We knew that Harley has broken up with the Joker - she's emancipated, she's on her own. 'From the outset, we knew we wanted to have fun with the world and the characters that we were creating,' she says. And while the Birds of Prey costumes are undoubtedly reflective of Gotham's dark, violent underbelly, they're also unabashedly celebratory, with sequin pieces and star iconography dominating the early scenes featuring a newly single-from-the-Joker Harley Quinn (played by Margot Robbie) partying in the club. It also kept in tone with the rest of her world.'Īs the costume designer behind indie favorites like Blue Valentine, Drive (yes, she designed Ryan Gosling's character's now-iconic scorpion jacket), The Place Beyond the Pines, and Neon Demon, Benach knows all about moody worlds that come alive sartorially at nighttime. At the end of the day, the gold leather, aesthetically, looked better with the lighting in the funhouse, and the exterior night scenes, where it just glowed almost. 'We had tried red, we had tried black, we had tried all these different ideas. I wanted it to feel a bit utilitarian, but also sexy,' she says of the latter. 'We tested tons of different ideas and colors and fabrics for that outfit. For Harley Quinn's Birds of Prey costumes, designer Erin Benach reimagined the anti-superhero's two main comic book looks - trading her red-and-black color palette for a hot pink-and-blue one, and her signature harlequin-like jumpsuit for gold leather overalls with a diamond pattern. Before you even have a chance to immerse yourself in the (much-anticipated) world of one (emancipated) Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey, you will be dazzled into another - one full of stylish clothing, kaleidoscopic colors, and more jewelry and shine than all of the DC Universe films combined.

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