The film's concept designer Brian Froud has stated that the character of Jareth was influenced by a diverse range of literary sources. In his afterword to the 20th-anniversary edition of "The Goblins of Labyrinth", Froud wrote that Jareth references "the romantic figures of Heathcliff in "Wuthering Heights" and a brooding Rochester from "Jane Eyre"" and "The Scarlet Pimpernel". Bowie's costumes were intentionally eclectic, drawing on the image of Marlon Brando's leather jacket from "The Wild One" as well as that of a knight "with the worms of death eating through his armour" from "Grimms' Fairy Tales". In his audio commentary of "Labyrinth", Froud said that Jareth also has influences from Japanese Kabuki theatre.