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However, although significant for the role, Milla has mentioned the costume’s impracticality, explaining that the bandages were difficult for stunts: “There was a lot of skin showing, so I got pretty bruised up, because I couldn’t wear pads and things that other people could wear.” a b Jeremy, Conrad (11 October 2001). "Fifth Element (Superbit), The". IGN. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014 . Retrieved 30 January 2015. Leeloo's human form after being recreated by the laboratory is that of a Caucasian female in her late teens, early twenties. Nineteen to be exact, although that is only on the surface. She is described by Korben as being "a really big fare that he couldn't resist", being 5'9", having long legs, blue eyes, and great skin. She has bright orange hair that is blonde at the roots and falls just past her jawline. She is fair-skinned, tall, slender, and physically perfect, as mentioned by David when she strips nude in front of him and Cornelius. Dorozhkina, Anna. “Jean-Paul Gaultier: how l’enfant terrible pranked all fashion industry.” World Fashion Channel, November 20, 2020. https://wfc.tv/en/articles/brand-history/history-of-jean-paul-gaultier.

Later, Korben and Leeloo recover from their mission in reactor chamber in the same New York laboratory where Leeloo was recreated. The lead scientist awkwardly explains to the visiting President Lindberg that the two heroes cannot meet with him at this time because they are making love inside the chamber. Hand to Hand combat: She possesses exceptional hand to hand combat skills using her superior agility and strength to defeat a squad Mangalores with absolute ease single-handedly who are highly skilled warriors. HuntleyFilmArchives. “Jean Paul Gaultier on the Scale of The Fifth Element, 1990’s – Film 93097.” YouTube video, 1:36. December 15, 2014. https://youtu.be/HeGrtvW9qM0. Gaultier’s first turn in film came in 1989 when he designed the costumes for Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. Gaultier proceeded to design costumes for several more films, including Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element (1997). Gaultier’s most persistent film partnership has been with the director Pedro Almodóvar, for whom Gaultier designed the costumes for Kika (1993), Bad Education (2004), and The Skin I Live In (2011). Gaultier has received two César nominations for his costume designs, once in 1998 for The Fifth Element and again in 1996 for Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s City of Lost Children (1995).Smith, Steven (8 May 1997). "In His Element". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014 . Retrieved 11 December 2014. McGovern, Joe. “Take a look at the ‘blue ice’ poster for Luc Besson’s Valerian. ” Entertainment Weekly, March 24, 2017. https://ew.com/movies/2017/03/24/exclusive-poster-debut-valerian-city-thousand-planets/. Although Leeloo’s thermal bandages are perhaps the most enduring costume from The Fifth Element (Okwodu) (Fig. 17), the design did not emerge solely from the mind of Jean Paul Gaultier. Milla Jovovich said in a 2018 interview that the idea of the bandage look was actually a collaboration between her and Luc Besson:

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The Fifth Element". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 19 February 2015 . Retrieved 30 January 2022. a b Edelstein, David (11 May 1997). "Unmitigated Gaul: The Fifth Element and Irma Vep". Slate. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014 . Retrieved 28 January 2015. Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jean Giraud sued Besson after the film was released, claiming The Fifth Element had plagiarised their comic The Incal. Giraud sued for 13.1 million euros for unfair competition, 9 million euros in damages and interest, and two to five percent of the net operating revenues of the film. Jodorowsky sued for 700,000 euros. The case was dismissed in 2004 on the grounds that only "tiny fragments" of the comic had been used [96] and Giraud had been hired by Besson to work on the film before the allegations were made. [19] Adaptations [ edit ] a b c d "The Fifth Element (1997)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 22 January 2015 . Retrieved 30 January 2015. On board to design them was former enfant terrible of the design world Jean Paul Gaultier, who created over 1000 ostentatious, bright, detailed costumes for the film; even honing in on the details of characters in crowd shots. The film would likely not have had quite the same impact without Gaultier’s obsessive commitment. Speaking at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Gaultier retrospective, Thierry-Maxime Loriot commented on Gaultier’s attention to detail, saying, “a thousand costumes is like 10 collections but all for one movie. It’s an incredible amount of work people don’t even know about. For a thousand costumes, he may have even done 5,000 sketches before narrowing it down”. The costumes are colourful, exciting, and a world away from the grim rain-soaked worlds of predecessors like Blade Runner (1982). Gaultier’s costumes were bright and fun; they took inspiration from his previous collections while incorporating non-traditional materials and a futuristic vision.

Ho, Jonathan. “Jean Paul Gaultier is Leaving Haute Couture but his Legacy is Immortalised in The Fifth Element.” Luxuo, January 20, 2020. www.luxuo.com/culture/culture-featured/jean-paul-gaultier-is-leaving-haute-couture-but-his-legacy-is-immortalised-in-the-fifth-element.html. Two decades later, the film still elicits awed reactions—and the costumes for Leeloo, Ruby Rhod, and Korben Dallas have become pop-culture staples that continue to resurface at events like Comic-Con and in online tributes. “It touches me still that the audience all over the world still love that movie,” says Gaultier. “I suppose that it is the combination of the directing, acting, sets, and costumes that worked so well.”Moebius perd son procès contre Besson"[Moebius loses trial against Besson]. ToutenBD (in French). 28 May 2004. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014 . Retrieved 30 January 2015.