The costume vault

This is not a review. This is not even an article. This is a love letter to a woman that taught us all to be defiant. To not conform with what society asks of you. To be open and honest about our problems. And to always do it with a smile and a joke. To be positive, even in the face of tragedy. This is a love letter to Carrie Fisher; the princess, the icon, and the woman underneath it all. Carrie Fisher, to me, and to most of us, was more than just an actress. Even more than just a character. She was the embodiment of strength, determination and honesty. So much honesty. She never recoiled from saying whatever she was feeling at the time. She never backed down from defending what she believed in. If she felt something needed to be said, she would say it. She kept no facade. No "character" mask. She showed herself to the world in her integrity; the good, the bad and whatever fell in the middle. That was her mantra: truth came first. For good and for worse. And t...

Princess Leia Organa, as played by Carrie Fisher in the original Star Wars trilogy, is one of the biggest female movie icons in movie history, and, without a doubt, the biggest female icon in science-fiction (granted that there aren't that many female characters in the genre, but it's still a major thing). It seemed only logical, under such outstanding qualifications, to have her kick start a new series of articles dedicated to Movie Icons and how their Costume Design helped them become Icons in the first place. If you ask someone what they think of when they hear  Star Wars , they'll probably say; "Yoda", or "the Death Star", or "the lightsabers"... And at one point or another, they'll say "Princess Leia's buns". Her look, particularly in A New Hope , is one of the most visually iconic elements in the movie. And though some people might prefer the "slave bikini" costume from The Return of the Jedi ,...