How Leonardo DiCaprio Ended Up in a Robe

Sorry, cosplayers, if you’re looking for where to buy Leonardo DiCaprio’s dad robe from “One Battle After Another,” you’re going to have a hard time finding it.

The film’s costume designer, Colleen Atwood, confirms it was made from old fabric. “I found some vintage-looking fabric and made the multiples I needed for the robe,” she tells Variety.

In the Paul Thomas Anderson film, out this weekend, DiCaprio plays Bob, a revolutionary turned stoner dad who is hanging around his house and has to quickly leave to go in search of his teenage daughter Willa, played by Chase Infiniti.

Originally, the idea was that Bob was going to be wearing a sweatshirt. But Atwood says, “I don’t know if it’s Paul or Leo who said, ‘What if he’s just in his robe?’” And so Bob, recalling Jeff Bridges’ dazed character in “The Big Lebowski,” spends a good chunk of the movie in his robe.

At the film’s premiere, DiCaprio described his character as a guy “that sits home and smokes pot all the time,” and said he “took a lot of inspiration” from Bridges’ performance as The Dude.

The plaid robe itself was made from a cotton-wool blend. “It’s an old, cheap dad robe. It’s a comfortable and cozy robe. And we aged the fabric a lot.”

And so, finding the costume for him became a fluid process, with the sunglasses and hat coming into the mix.

Bob’s sneakers also needed to be considered.

“A lot of stuff, Leo did it himself. So we had to protect him from the world,” Atwood explains. “Somebody told him about these sneakers that are popular with runners and so we dialled into that brand.” Apparently Leo likes a wide toe box, because he ended up wearing Altra Lone Peak trail runners with the orange sole. “Those are great because we got them filthy, but you’ll see a bit of the orange showing.”

For those who wish to dress as Bob this Halloween in a robe just like his, Atwood jokes,…