You know that feeling when you randomly stumble on a film and you
watch it and you’re just like “THIS IS PERFECT WHERE HAS THIS BEEN FOR MY
ENTIRE LIFE.” Because I watched Luca
Guadagnino‘s I Am Love this weekend and was blown away by it’s elegant &
deceptively simple costumes (and story, but we’re all about the clothes here). I
Am Love features my androgynous alien queen Tilda Swinton as Emma, a Russian émigrée turned matriarch of a wealthy Italian family, who spends the film
navigating some intense family melodrama while wearing a series of increasingly
fierce Jil Sander dresses. (In yet another tragedy, costume design Antonella
Cannarozzi was nominated for an Academy Award but lost to Colleen Atwood for Alice in Wonderland.)
I love the subtle progression of colors and textures in Emma’s
wardrobe as it reflects her emotional state throughout the film. I think the
costume choices speak for themselves:
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