‘Anora’ Costume Designer Talks Perfecting New York Streetwear, Avoiding Fast Fashion and How She Found That Perfect Fur Coat: ‘It’s Basically Our Cinderella Glass Slipper’

variety.com:

Sean Baker‘s Palme d’Or-winning “Anora,” Mikey Madison‘s titular Ani goes through a whirlwind evolution as she’s swept from the club where she makes a living as a sex worker to the palatial mansion of the mysterious, inexplicably charming, video game-addicted Ivan, the prodigal son to a billionaire Russian oligarch.

Throughout the film, she lives out her own modern-day Cinderella story on the gritty streets of Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach. It’s Ani’s clothing that perhaps most clearly demarcates her transformation from hustling stripper to designer-clad darling.

In telling this sartorial story, costume designer Jocelyn Pierce tells Variety that she broke down Anora’s costume arc into three parts: The Club, Girlfriend Week and Wifey. “We really tried to concentrate as though these were different worlds,” Pierce says.

Aspirational dressing was at the core of Girlfriend Week, the era Pierce says she had the most fun designing. By the end of the film, skin-baring sets are swapped out for glamorous furs, and budget streetwear steals for splashy logos. “It’s like, dress for the job you want,” Pierce says.