Everyone’s favourite web-slinging superhero is back on the big screen – only this time, he’s in Europe. Reeling in the wake of the events of Avengers: Endgame, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) has shun the limelight and opted to return to normal teenage life, embarking on a trip around Europe with his friends. Unfortunately, Parker soon learns that you don’t choose the superhero life – it chooses you. Costume designer Anna B. Sheppard had plenty of opportunity to innovate on the classic Spider-Man outfit. As well as the iconic red and blue costume from 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, Parker dons the Tony Stark-designed Iron Spider suit that debuted in Avengers: Infinity War. New to the line-up is a jet-black ‘stealth mode’ suit to protect Spider-Man’s anonymity, as well as a red and black suit that Parker designs himself, complete with ‘web wings’ inspired by one of the original SpiderMan artists, Steve Ditko. Elsewhere, magicwielding superhuman Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) dons a futuristic suit of armour complete with neon lighting. Mysterio’s long purple cape was hand-made by Sheppard, stitching together blue and red thread to give it depth, instead of just dying a single piece of fabric. The cape also incorporated lighting elements, which Sheppard said Gyllenhaal occasionally sat on by mistake. “But when you are in this mood of playing this hero, you don’t think what you’re sitting on,” Sheppard joked, “So he’s forgiven.”
