Michael Kaplan Michael Kaplan is the award - winning American costume designer who designed the costumes for . His work on this film earned him a Costume Designers Guild Award s nomination in the category Excellence in Costume Design for Film – Fantasy . He hails from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA . More recently he worked as costume designer on the sequel , for which he was nominated for a 2014 Saturn Award . Career . Science fiction films . Kaplan is no stranger to the science fiction genre . His first motion picture project as a costume designer was the cult 1982 sci - fi thriller " Blade Runner " ( featuring Joanna Cassidy and Edward James Olmos ) . Kaplan received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) Film Award for Best Costume Design for his work on this film . He later designed the costumes for the 1998 sci - fi film " Armageddon " , which was co - written by " Star Trek " s producer / director , J . J . Abrams . For his work on this film , Kaplan was nominated for a Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction , Fantasy & Horror Films . Just prior to his work on " Star Trek " , Kaplan designed the costumes for the 2007 science fiction thriller " I Am Legend " , whose cast included Salli Elise Richardson . Other film work . Following his work on " Blade Runner " , Kaplan designed the costumes for the hit 1983 romantic drama " Flashdance " , which starred Michael Nouri . He then worked on the 1984 film " Against All Odds " , whose cast included Saul Rubinek . His other early film credits include " Clue " ( starring Christopher Lloyd and Michael McKean ) , " Cat Chaser " ( starring Peter Weller ) , National Lampoon ' s " Christmas Vacation " ( featuring Miriam Flynn and Natalia Nogulich ) , and " Malice " ( starring Bebe Neuwirth ) . Director has utilized Kaplan ' s talents in four films : " Se7en " ( 1995 ) , " The Game " ( 1997 , featuring Elizabeth Dennehy ) , " Fight Club " ( 1999 , starring Zach Grenier and David Andrews ) , and " Panic Room " ( 2002 ) . Kaplan ' s work on " Fight Club " earned him a nomination from the Costume Designers Guild ( CDG ) Awards in the Excellence in Costume Design for Film – Contemporary category , as did his designs for ' s 2005 hit " Mr . & Mrs . Smith " . This latter film , like " Star Trek " , features Jennifer Morrison . More recently , he designed the costumes for such films as " Pearl Harbor " ( featuring Pat Healy , Glenn Morshower , Randy Oglesby , Leland Orser , James Saito , Raphael Sbarge , Cary - Hiroyuki Tagawa , and Michael Shamus Wiles ) , " Matchstick Men " ( starring Bruce McGill ) , and ' s " Miami Vice " . He also worked on Curtis Hanson ' s " Lucky You " which , like " Star Trek " , starred Eric Bana . Kaplan designed the costumes for the fantasy film " The Sorcerer ' s Apprentice " ( 2010 ) for director Jon Turteltaub and producer Jerry Bruckheimer , and the musical " Burlesque " ( 2010 ) . Further work as costume designer includes the action sequel " Mission : Impossible – Ghost Protocol " ( 2011 , with Simon Pegg ) and Akiva Goldsman ' s fantasy film " Winter ' s Tale " ( 2014 ) . His next collaboration with Abrams will be on the science fiction sequel " Star Wars : Episode VII " , set for a 2015 release .