#5 Things We Learned About The Green Knight From The New Blu-Ray

On top of recycling building materials, the costumes of “The Green Knight” were also vegan. That’s right, “The Green Knight” was one seriously green production. All of the costumes were made from faux fur and faux leather, which turned out to be an interesting problem for costume designer Malgosia Turzanska:

“I started looking at fake furs and fake leathers and realized that a lot of fake leather or faux leather, and a lot of fake fur is just made from plastic. So yes, it is cruelty-free, but it’s terrible for the environment. So I started researching bizarre new, for me at least, materials like mycoleather, for example, which is made of fungus. And it has the texture of leather, or the texture of suede really.”

That’s right, leather made out of mushrooms. They also coated fabric in clay and cracked it to get an “elephant leg” texture, used coconut leather, and created clothes from “bark cloth.”

“The material that I think I’m the most excited about is bark-cloth,” Turzanka said. “It looks less like leather and more like wool felt. And it’s fibers of just tree bark, mushed together and it’s a material that has been used especially in Africa for hundreds and hundreds of years.”

Patel was taken aback by the sheer variety of fabrics, accessories, and more that Turzanka was able to find.

“She sourced materials from all over the world,” Patel marveled.