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When is a promontory just a cape? Rarely, as proven by Ben Mendelsohn’s baddie in Rogue One: A Leading Wars Story. In his role as Director Orson Krennic, a middle-management supreme lackey, he has turned the off-white cape into a real takeaway from the new movie.

It’s benefit restating the obvious at this point: Star Wars bad people usually opt for black. But, rather than blindsiding us with its state correctness, the white cape is actually a triple power commence. The colour is Cornforth White from Farrow & Ball, a mid-tone, off-white camouflage, which was the colour of 2016 for people in positions of power. It’s what Hillary Clinton determined for her final-debate pantsuit, is a similar shade to Melania Trump’s jumpsuit haggard to her husband’s victory speech and is Michelle Obama’s favourite tee off on someone a put on dinner colour. Also, capes are the root of shoulder-robing, that denotative of frow-friendly trend for wearing your coat on your rejects, leaving your hands free to text or wield the lanyard to the Decease Star. And they have been a consistent coat course for the past five seasons, worn by Solange to her 2014 marriage, and most recently seen on the Gareth Pugh catwalk. The giveaway here is that the mock-up wore sunglasses indoors while modelling.

As Mendelsohn has explained, it is suggestive as a performance tool as well as a prop: “It gives you a dignity and an uprightness that you influence not have had otherwise. It’s the sign of a great costume.”