When the second season of “ Loki ” picks up, the Temporal Loom becomes central to the Time Variance Alliance, and the Sacred Timeline is endangered. Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, the god of mischief, sets out to try to repair the damage. Mobius (Owen Wilson) and Ouroboros (Ke Huy Quan) — better known as OB — help him.
As they dart between different time periods, it was up to the show’s costume designer, Christine Wada, to build on the outfits she had created for Season 1 and expand the Marvel costume universe. One key costume was the temporal core suit. In the first episode, Mobius ventures into the malfunctioning Temporal Loom wearing a core suit.
Wada knew the suit needed to feel outdated, as if it came from the 1940s or ’50s. The outfit also needed to feel authentic and organic, as if the TVA had built the suit to sustain the harsh environment. Yet, it couldn’t look referential to a diving suit, a bomb suit or even a NASA space suit.
So she found a wetsuit from the mid-century and examined the fabric: “The ribbing groove in the suit came from there. A happy accident occurred when she painted over the latex. “It created a beautiful effect.
We came back a few days later and it changed colors. So we found a stabilizer, and everything worked out,” Wada notes. From there, she kept building, beginning with an inner cage, making sure that it wasn’t too heavy.
Since the suit needed volume, she constructed the armholes with metal rings as support for the sleeves, w.