I said, "Listen, what about bandages?" Like you know, when people get wounded, they just put bandages to cover the necessary bits. So how do we do that? And that's where the bandage idea came from. So, you have to almost have as little as possible, but for the sake of modesty you have to cover up too. Something Luc and I had actually talked about before meeting with Jean Paul was like, "How do we shoot the birth scene of Leeloo?” She gets put together through this DNA splicing machine, and she's naked, but she can't be naked throughout the movie, so what do we do? And something that hit me was like being in a hospital for instance, they put like a robe on you that's open in the back so that they can reach in, and give you injections, and put tubes in you and things. Speaking recently to Vogue, the actress revealed the origins of Leeloo’s bandage costume and how her suggestion sparked Gaultier’s creation: When it came to designing Leeloo’s look however, Jovovich herself offered a bit of input that went on to guide Gaultier’s work. One of the most important of these creative forces in fact was fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier, who was hired by Besson to handle costumes for his visionary sci-fi epic. The Fifth Element was of course bound to have a distinctive look given the prodigious creative forces involved in its making. Related: Why The Fifth Element Is The '90s Most Underrated Sci-fi Movie
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