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STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) - Prototype Han Solo (Harrison Ford) Jacket

Currency:GBP Category:Collectibles Start Price:10,000.00 GBP Estimated At:20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP
STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) - Prototype Han Solo (Harrison Ford) Jacket
A prototype Han Solo (Harrison Ford) jacket from the production of Irvin Kershner's Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. As this jacket is a prototype, its shows differences to those seen in the film, primarily through its pocket placement and shape. The jacket is also a smaller size than those worn by Ford and features different colour stitching to the film-used jackets.

Designed by Academy Award-winning costume designer John Mollo, it is made of a cotton-woollen blend with a polyester satin lining. It features a mandarin collar, pockets on both sides at the chest and waist, a large pocket on the rear, a faux-pocket on the left arm, shoulder panel detailing, and visible stitched detailing at the upper arm, elbow and cuffs.

Several colours were considered before the final design was selected, in consultation with George Lucas and director Irvin Kershner. Although it appeared navy blue in the film, the jacket is a blue-grey colour. Designer Mollo stated that blues tend to appear black on film, and for that reason a garment intended to read as blue needed to be made in a lighter colour.

Lucas famously did not want any visible fasteners on the costumes of Star Wars as he felt that would make them too close to the styling of modern-day Earth. He also did not want the costumes to stand out in the film; Mollo stated that Lucas instructed him to avoid making them appear "spacey".

Mollo, who won one of his two Oscars

for his work on Star Wars: A New Hope, described Han Solo's look as "a mixture of a cowboy and a more orthodox space sort of thing". Han's straightforward garb spoke to George Lucas' description of the character in the fourth draft of Star Wars: "A mercenary in a starship, simple, sentimental and cocksure of himself."

£20000-30000 M