American costume designer, known for Blade Runner and Fight Club, who updated the classic Starfleet uniforms for Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness.
Michael Kaplan is an American costume designer whose credits include Blade Runner, Flashdance, Fight Club and, later, the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
For J. J. Abrams's 2009 Star Trek he kept the gold, blue and red tunics of the original series but rebuilt them as a coloured overshirt printed with a fine pattern of tiny Starfleet deltas, worn over a black undershirt. He also designed the grey Academy cadet uniforms and the costumes of Nero's tattooed Romulan crew.
He returned for Star Trek Into Darkness, adding grey dress uniforms with peaked caps, wetsuits and the Klingon armour and helmets seen on Qo'noS.