“I wanted to present a birds-eye view, that personal intense and private view of them through their clothes and so what I had to take away from the show was what everybody fell in love with. Then I’d say, ‘But you didn’t know that this is what that jacket went through, because she fought in hundreds of battles and she’s not going to Neiman Marcus and buying a new one. She’s repairing it over and over and over again and I want you to see that.’
I want you to see this guy who we just thought was a T-shirt or a jumpsuit wearer, actually had a lot of function in that suit. We don’t use the same type of equipment and tools and we have different shapes, so when you look at a pair of overalls today it’s, ‘Oh, there’s a hook for a hammer.’ There may be today a cell phone pocket. I want to take you even further and show you that the pockets have different shapes. The buttons no longer snap, they’re magnetic. I’m taking you really close and letting you see what happened during’Firefly.’ You’re getting a real close-up view.”
Ruth Carter on Why She Said Yes to “Serenity:” “Well, because I feel it was a capsulation of everything I’ve done. I had to research just like period pieces. We went 500 years in the future, so I went 500 years in the past and figured out what we were using 500 years ago still today and try to figure out what would stay 500 years frm tomorrow. I needed to know what new things that were developed that were very useful to fashion and keep them – fibers, fiber content, things, you know, functional things. Do we still use a zipper or do we use something else? So I’m really good at the research part and I think that’s what Joss Whedon admired about my work was some of the detail that went into different things that I had done.”
