INTRODUCTION: I have been a life long Star Wars fan with Darth Vader being my all time favorite fictional character in all of cinema history. To me his costume is the best costume design ever and that was made very apparent when John Mollo, costumer designer for Star Wars(1977), won the award for best costume design at the 1978 Oscars. The costume is very samurai inspired from the large flared helmet down to the layers of intertwined robes and hard armor. He was a force wielding warrior that drew heavy inspiration from the old Japanese samurai films. This inspiration also paved the way for future force users mostly known as Jedi. As a fan of Darth Vader I had set out to create the most accurate representation of Vader's costume I possibly can with in reason. I started in 2010 with the Return of the Jedi version and now recently I started working on the A New Hope version to keep on display and use the other for trooping. This blog is to detail the costume I put together fo...