Kevin Donovan collaborated with cinematographer Stephen Windon and production designers Paul Austerberry and Monte Hallis to achieve a look he calls "stylish, but not futuristic. We wanted it to feel at once real and like something odd is happening. I think our designers did a fantastic job."
Erica Edell Phillips designed most of the costumes seen in the film. However, the centerpiece of the story, the tuxedo itself, was designed by world-renowned designer Giorgio Armani. "Knowing how important this tuxedo would be to the film, we went to Giorgio Armani and told him what it would mean to us to have his involvement," Schroeder recalls. "He was excited to work with Jackie Chan, so he agreed to design the tuxedo, and it’s beautiful. It’s classic, with a modern twist, and it obviously has that beautiful Armani line in its design."
The special tuxedo is a one-button classic wool crepe tuxedo with narrow notched satin lapels. The jacket is detailed with topstitching, and the waistband cummerbund is in satin and is worn with a classic tuxedo shirt and bow tie.
In addition, the suit Chan wears at the end of the film is from the Giorgio Armani men’s collection. Jennifer Love Hewitt also wears a range of outfits from both the Giorgio Armani and Emporio Armani collections, including: an Emporio Armani turquoise silk chiffon cocktail dress; an Emporio Armani beige textured wool peak lapel suit; another Emporio Armani suit, in a charcoal textured wool; and a dramatic Giorgio Armani strapless navy floral beaded tea-length gown featuring a plunging back highlighted by a spider-web pattern of straps.
It could be said that a movie with a state-of-the-art tuxedo, designed by no less than Giorgio Armani, gives new meaning to the phrase "the clothes make the man." But Kevin Donovan is quick to counter, "I think the message of the movie is that external forces, be they clothes or whatever, don’t have anything to do with who we really are as people. It’s the man who makes it happen, not the clothes that make the man."
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