Vogs in Space, Part 2: Not Vogs, Actually
OK, you guys are an awesome hive mind! Not only did you answer some of my questions about the costuming from the new Star Trek movie, you proved me wrong on the one thing I thought I HAD fugured out.
First off, you proved me wrong on the boots- not Fluevogs at all, but the Spiral Tabi boots from Ayya Wear (although several of you caugth my mistake, points go to Choklit Chanteuse for being the quickest on the draw).
Next, Jonny Cota popped up with a clue to the jackets, which turn out to be from Los Angeles designer Elijah Sound’s A.D.2013- a collection which was somehow totally under my radar!
And, Ragdoll pointed out that costume designer Michael Kaplan was also the costume designer from Bladerunner (for which, by the way, he won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design).
From the Editor : We received a comment from Greg from Fluevog saying :
Greg Fluevog Says:
May 19th, 2009 at 10:49 AM edit
Actually, they are Fluevogs. We sold the costume crew a dozen pairs of the 240s for the guys (http://www.fluevog.com/code/?w[0]=search%3Ageoff&p=1&pp=1&view=detail&colourID=937) and the Tillies (rubber wedge Friend lace-ups) for the lady Romulans. Vog On!
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Tags: costume design, star trek movie
May 15th, 2009 at 5:37 PM
I love our readers.
May 15th, 2009 at 5:47 PM
I may be quick on the draw, but the copy editing late at night, not so much – there’s a typo in my web address on my comment and thus in this post… if anyone wants to find me it’s actually http://choklitchanteuse.blogspot.com
Not blogsopt.
xo
Choklit
May 15th, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Corrected.
May 15th, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Since I missed my chance on getting to answer the Romulan question, I would like to draw your attention to a some related designs: Sequoia’s own clothing line http://sandgclothing.com/ and the Isis Indriya headed http://www.buddhaful.com/store/ which has the hottest shrug in existance if I may say so. (I own the Gevurah coat myself).
May 18th, 2009 at 3:32 AM
I can offer some further clarification on this subject. My name is Mitchell Kulkin and I was the designer that was approached by michael Kaplan at the fairfax flea market last december. I was wearing a deconstructed jacket that I designed and sewed while in a design partnership called EION 2013 with Elijah Sound and Khellar Crawford. Michael came up to me and said that my jacket had to be the look of the space pirates in his new movie. Within two weeks I was in Bali producing my sewing and deconstruction techniques on the designs from paramount picture’s new star trek movie. Right now we are releasing a website called ROMWEAR.com where you can look at and purchase exact replicas of the garments and boots worn by the romulans in the new movie. It should be up in the next few days….
Since the time of our star trek production EION2013 has split and Elijah formed his own company called 2013ad. I have been working with Isis indriya on a line called alchemy designs and now have my own project called Artifact. You can reach me at romwear@gmail.com for more info. thanks
July 1st, 2009 at 8:39 PM
wow i really cannot believe this greg person. the boots are made by ayya. they are NOT Fluevogs? how unprofessional is it to claim something that is completely false- what kind of artist takes credit for someone else’s hard work and creativity? Go to their site- does it look like anything they make? NO. Go to ayyawear.com and see the exact boot. Pathetic greg at fluevogs.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:45 PM
I was confused as well, but if you read it closely you’ll see that the Roms had both – the style of boot provided by Fluevog is actually a low shoe, and they provided the girls’ stuff. The boots I originally mistook for Fluevogs WERE the Ayya boots. There just were also some Vogs in the movie.
July 4th, 2009 at 5:45 AM
Thanks for a great list of ideas. I’ve scribbled down a couple to try out. I particularly like the idea of having upcoming events featured there.
June 5th, 2010 at 4:19 PM
What happened to the Romwear website, it seems to be down or gone completely! Does anyone know if it will be up or if Mitchell Kulkin will be selling those cool Romulan clothes somewhere else??