Reflecting
Cirque du Soleil's return to more traditional circus arts with clowning
and acrobatics, Marie-Chantale Vaillancourt (costume designer) chose a
color palette more in line with traditional circus and
burlesque: red, white, and gold.
Kooza's
costumes are designed from the point of view of a character called the
Innocent. The Innocent's costume itself has horizontal stripes and is
very ill-fitted, with sleeves much too long and pant legs much too
short, illustrating his childlike naïvety. The other main character, the
Trickster, is impeccably dressed, with the same colored stripes as the
Innocent, yet his are vertical. In fact, the stripes are aligned to such
a degree that the lines run directly in line from headpiece to shoe.
Much detail was put into piecing the wool-lycra blend pieces together to
show the Trickster's mischievous and all-powerful character