“The Batman” star Robert Pattinson imbues his shadowy crime fighter with an outsider’s emotionality that allows the viewer to read his performance as the costumed vigilante just as easily as his performance as the wealthy recluse Bruce Wayne. But that wouldn’t be possible without the work of David Crossman and Glyn Dillon, the costume designers behind the new Batsuit.
The artists credit new fabrication technologies unavailable to previous Batman designers that allow costumes to be made with a nuanced performances in mind, giving Pattinson a greater range of movement and expression. “We were just very, very aware from the beginning how flexible it all needed to be,” says Crossman.
One way in which their take on the iconic costume differentiates itself from other cinematic incarnations is that they give the Dark Knight’s cowl a “neutral” expression.
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