The Dark Knight Rises costume designer Lindy Hemming has been chatting up her approach to dressing Bruce Wayne and the villainous Bane in Christopher Nolan's upcoming Bat-swan song.

"Bane was meant to look like a cross between a dictator and a revolutionary," Hemming said in an interview with GQ Magazine "I designed the coat myself - it took a year. We took inspiration from a Swedish army jacket and a French Revolution frock coat and amalgamated the two," said Hemming. "It was a pain to have made, because in LA shearling is not their sort of thing: there weren't the tailors who could work with the fabric. It's funny: as soon as it was finished, GQ did a feature about shearling coats, so it looked like I had copied you!"

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As for the Dark Knight himself, Hemming said, "Christian Bale was in Armani in the last film and I used Armani again for character reasons. Bruce Wayne is himself playing a part: that of a wealthy man who owns an enormous company and so a luxury brand like Armani seemed the right choice."Thanks to Batman-News for the head's-up!