EUERYONE TALKS about the sand-worms and the spice, but the coolest thing Frank Herbert invented for Dune-even he seemed to think so-was the stillsuit. Worn by the inhabitants of the desert planet Arrakis, stillsuits capture any moisture that leaves the body and recycle it back into drinkable water. They also look pretty sick, all tubes and piping and chest plates (a cosplayers wet dream). For Denis Villeneuve's Dune adaptation, costume designer Jacqueline West wanted the look of the stillsuits to reflect their ecological necessity. "It was such a prophetic book about a planet that was robbed, as ours has been, of its resources," she says. "We wanted the suit to be made exactly as it would have been with Frank Herbert's descriptions." Could such a thing ever work in the real world? Most likely not-but it's still cool to deconstruct.
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