Hi, I'm Tricia Phillips.
I'm costume designer for Star Trek Discovery,
and we are here at the Paley Center.
Doing the Enterprise costumes was one of the really
great challenges we got to do
our costume had a really good throw back to
the original series with our caller the way it
was with the angle and on the black.
So it just has a really nice tip and
it does definitely Echo That season I'm standing next
to this thing
because it's literally
my favorite thing in the world
and the bane of my existence.
It's why I don't eat food.
It's white
and it's spandex
can actors dream
the talosians.
This were really cool species that we got to
do, you know reimagining them from the TOs and
that the original pilot
my first design one of the notes I got
from Alex was to try to you know, look
at the original things and revamp them.
So I did my very first design he actually
threw back to me and said can I go
a little bit further
and do what you do? And one of the
things we did was that was we played a
lot with printing textures on Fabrics.
So we created two prints with a sort of
Puffs texture onto the Fabrics bonded our fabric on
top of it.
So it gave it that
it really sort of structural base that we worked
on top of we also designed a necklace which
was a really great collaboration that we got to
do with
Dana Schneider
the rails dress with the cape.
I like to get things from this place that
I call the Klingon store, which was this really
great company called girly that particular piece was a
jumpsuit and a pair of pants that we turn
into a dress
and we lifted off the leather pieces and
put them back onto
leather created this really cool Cape that we bonded
to leather again here and then
painted over the top of
and put that
LaRon
this is
Spock's very first look from episode 207
designed by gursha Phillips all custom-made
big shout-out to grocery Phillips your Genius or amazing.
She did over
I think a hundred and eighty original
costumes for characters on the show, which is mind-blowing.
They worked around the clock
and
a little secret.
I have one of these at home.
So the red angel I watch this really great
movie called Ghost in the Shell
and was completely enthralled with the suit that
caller to have some awareness and that's what sort
of was the take the kickoff point for the
right Angel for me.
Anyway, when we were given the task Mary also
came up with this idea of the propeller wings
that would push you through time, which is also
really good and we had this whole other idea
where we were going to build up it was
going to be a pod
and then the angel suit would come out of
the Pod
that all dropped away
we had that was just what we had.
You know, when we first were given it was
said that the suit was
a thousand years in the future
and then it turned out to be a suit
that her mom was working from the past.
So we don't have a lot of really interesting.
The palace
we had to shift with all our different ideas.
And then we had to make that second one
for Burnham.
It was a great experience and it was a
really great collaboration
with myself and Mario and we worked with a
company called classrooms.
We did 3D printing a 3D surface printing again
with
by Design in La creating the plates and and
putting all the elements together was just a really
great experience and I think that all works really
well together and also
it's one of the suits that I've been told
by anybody that's worn.
It is the most comfortable and easiest to wear.
So that's a kind of a good it feels
like
Like a double plus
look at feel that good and Axwell to and
nothing not very many things fell apart.
I don't think anything it actually I said that's
also really great you hear of actors talking about
other suits that they wore Nike remember got hearing
about Gary Oldman
not being able to move in his Dracula suit,
you know and also the Batman suit, so
I think once you can get them so that
they can actually function and still do what they
need to do the actors.
It's really great.
And it also looks really good.
Everything is inspiring like for instance its fellow she
and textures and those things that we were doing.
There are things that we got, you know,
From
partly from nature
also from just surfing the web and finding cool
designs or cool Prince.
I feel like I'm just like a sponge and
everything.
I just and I actually scared to watch certain
things because I don't want it like absorb anything
from that.
You know, I haven't watched
any Game of Thrones because I'm like not watching
it.
I don't want to see anything come out.
So I just try you know, that's a big
thing for me because I feel like I just
soak it up and then it comes up and
I don't even realize it's actually happening designers.
I love Alexander McQueen
Iris van herpen.
That's really cool.
I went to see her show.
This year again, and it was
mind-boggling a beautiful.
And also I went to see that
this other designer called GAO pay that has some
really amazing things as well very odd, you know
otherworldly in a different way, so it's really interesting
to see that too.
You know, I think when you're in a in
a
not a funk as my word, but when you're
in a like a
dry spell went creatively speaking, it's always nice to
get something like that definitely is one of The
Inspirations.
Make sure you come on by the Paley Center.
There's an amazing exhibit here for our show starts
at Discovery happen until July 7th.