This week, Lou and Shell are heading into the costume department, getting sized up and squeezed into our own leather corsets and miniskirts with the wonderfully talented Kiwi Jane Holland - Costume Designer for Xena: Warrior Princess Seasons 5 and 6! 🧵✂️🪡⚔️💜
Jane is responsible for creating some of the most memorable looks in the entire series, including the iconic pregnant Xena costume 🌀(which Jane designed while pregnant herself!), Gabrielle’s later looks 🐯, Athena 👑 (yes! THAT costume, the one that made us all a little gayer!), Xena's daughter Livia, and more. ❤️⚔️🏹
But Jane’s Xena story goes even further back. She worked alongside Barbara Darragh, the costume designer who created Xena’s original look, when Xena first appeared on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, before helping shape the world we know and love.
Jane takes us behind the sewing machines to talk about creating costumes in Aotearoa, and how the people and places of New Zealand informed her work. 🌿🧶🥝
We are so honoured to welcome Jane into the Nutball whānau. We ADORE her. She is an absolute joy and sends a whole bunch of aroha back to us Xenites. 🥹💜⚔️
Plus, Jane still has some of her original costume drawings tucked away in her archives... which we chat about. ✏️📜👀
Tighten your corsets, Xenites. This is a real proper special one. 💜
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