Via Starwars.com:

LEARN HOW THE COSTUMING MASTERS RECREATED THE STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS BADDIE’S MENACING OUTFIT.

Kylo Ren is cool. Yes, he did some terrible things in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but let’s not split hairs (or computer consoles, as Ren did during one of his more…unstable moments). He is the latest in a long line of visually striking, powerful Star Wars bad guys that we love to love. The Kylo Ren costume, in a style all but invented by Star Wars, blends samurai, WWII, and futuristic motifs, and the resulting design is already a fan favorite, if not culturally iconic.

That’s why ANOVOS’ replica ensemble, available now for pre-order, is all the more impressive. It gets every detail perfect — the scoring on the mask, the layers of fabric — along with those we might not even notice but are still essential to making it authentic. StarWars.com recently caught up with the costuming wizards at ANOVOS to find out how they recreated this memorable outfit, and came away with five insights that would surprise Ren himself. (In a good way. Not in a droid-stole-a-freighter kind of way.)

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