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Paul (Brooke McCarter), David (Kiefer Sutherland), Dwayne (Billy Wirth), and Marko's (Alex Winter) vampire jackets from Joel Schumacher's supernatural coming-of-age thriller The Lost Boys. The youthful vampires, posing as a biker gang, wore their signature leather jackets and shirts while feeding upon the unsuspecting citizens of beach town Santa Clara, California.
Director Joel Schumacher, a former costume designer, and costume designer Susan Becker used leather jackets to modernize the Victorian image of their Vampires, choosing instead a wild and rebellious style that embraced punk rock's adolescent counterculture. To fit this aesthetic, the actors selected costumes to match their characters, which the costume team then modified for filming. As a result, the Vampires' costumes became symbols of 1980s pop culture.
This lot consists of a full-length black Paul coat with tails, a row of safety pins on the left side, a series of gray leather details, and a decorative replica metal chain accent on the right side, as well as a navy mesh tank top; a black woolen David trench coat modified with harness holes at the back for flying sequences, affixed inside one pocket with a production label from a previous production marked "666" in black marker, and customized with unique items, such as a watch timepiece button; a zippered black Dwayne leather jacket featuring a hand-painted jaguar on the right shoulder and a large, partially resewn cut made on the reverse by production for the character's death scene; and a dark blue denim Marko jacket marked "AW" on the interior label and affixed throughout with cotton, leather, and carpeted patches and translucent neon fishing lures on the collar.
The Dwayne jacket is signed and inscribed "Death By Stereo!!" by Corey Haim. Each of these jackets is intentionally weathered throughout by production to look well-worn with staining, fraying of the fabric, discolored leather, and tearing, particularly on the interior linings of David's, Paul's, and Dwayne's jackets.
Estimate: $80,000 - 120,000
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