Gabrielle's Archangel costume

Another great acquisition was the Gabrielle’s Archangel costume, worn by Gabrielle played by Renée O´Connor, seen in “Fallen Angel” from season 5.

As a curiosity, “Fallen Angel” was so complex that it needed two months to be filmed, while a whole season of “Xena” (22 episodes) took one year to be filmed.

Xena's long way of redemption and her great compassion towards Callisto, meant giving her light to her and taking her to heaven. After meeting Callisto in the purification cave, Gabrielle’s forgiveness purified her soul and obtained a pair of wings and the Archangel costume to fight evil and demons.

 

 

This awesome colorful costume is composed of 4 pieces: top, skirt, belt and gauntlets. I have already found the knee guards from another collector, but for the moment, there are just these 4 pieces.

 

Probably the top is the most notable piece; it is made of beautiful red velvet, maybe an omen to the season six hero costume, with a pale white ribbon around. The chest is made with a silver shiny fabric imitating a metal breastplate; the top piece includes the shoulder guards to be attached in the arms. The top laces up at the sides and at the back, as a corset. The costume department in coordination with the special effects team decided to make a pair of rear openings to insert the angel feathered wings to the inner harness.

The belt is made of  darker purple fabric. The skirt is made of several layers of reddish translucent chiffon fabric and has an inner tag that is written “Renee” in. The gauntlets are made of grey leather and intertwined strips to look like metal.

The costume has a COA from “It’s a Wrap!” and is described as: Gabrielle Archangel costume from “Fallen Angel”.

As curiosity, I found a pair of photos of the costume design drawing of this costume:

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