For the costumes, Gaulter spoke in interviews as to how to properly approach the idea of the 'future' fashion of the 23rd century and notes how there could be even returns to 'retro' fashions, which can be seen in this film, but for this film he had the idea of designing a lot of the outfits to be designed out of rubber in order to achieve that futuristic visual sense. Whilst the comic book (or bandes dessinées if we must get pretentious) influence were so prevalant that esteemed artists Jean 'Moebius' Giraud and Jean-Claude Mézières were hired for the production design, they had a minimal role for the film's costumes, with perhaps only Moebius contributing anyway - the bulk of the film's costume design (which encompassed almost a thousand costumes in total!) is entirely the work of Gaultier, who himself was regarded as a sort of 'enfant terrible' of the fashion world, and had already designed elaborate fashions for film before, but this was his first (and so far, only) real science-fiction effort. The spectacular costume design is partly thanks to the aforementioned comic book influence, but also the hiring of famous fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier Luc Besson's The Fifth Element remains a very wacky and imaginative space opera, drawing large amounts of inspiration from France's native comic book scene which often dabbled in grand science-fiction - so of course this film still is renowned for its very colourful and larger than life visual sense, one of these especially being the film's costume design. Jean Paul Gaultier ( notable efforts: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Kika (1993), The City of Lost Children (1995), as well as, of course, his work in the fashion industry )
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