Paul Taswell

I mean, it wasn't that I forgot.

I just, you know, just like listing all of them off.

And, you know, it minimizes the impact that it's had on me creatively.

just to say that it was life-changing.

I think that it really has affected my life in great ways.

I see my work as a costume designer to be one of a storyteller.

And I'm telling a silent story that reveals itself adjacent to the performances of the characters.

Throughout these two beautiful films,

I was giving context to what their backstory was for each of our principal characters, Elphaba and Glinda, where they came from.

With Elphaba, we have been left at the very end of the first film, Wicked Part One, with Defying Gravity.

And she's in her very best dress, dressed to meet the wizard for the first time.

And she's also paired that with her pointed hat.

And when she jumps out of the window with the velvet cape that she's added on and her broom, we realize that she's completely self-empowered.

I mean, she has arrived and has taken hold of her own power.

So to enter into the beginning of Wicked for Good, we get this sense that she has never really gone back to society.

She's stayed in exile.

And a way of expressing that was to keep her in the same dress, but because she has been out there, you know, she's advocating for animals, saving animals, really, and taking down lines of guards that, you know, we see at the very beginning where they're all laying the yellow brick road.

She has become a huge force and, you know, kind of a superhero.

So I wanted to relay that with her silhouette.

but also to show the weathering of her garment.