‘I Was Really Trying to Be Cold With My Choices’: Costume Designer Giulia Piersanti on Dressing Ayo Edebiri and Julia Roberts for ‘After the Hunt’

Many of the movies that came out of the #MeToo movement deliberately kept their visual and sartorial profiles sparse: recall the muted turtlenecks and depressing gray offices of Kitty Green’s 2020 film The Assistant , or New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (played by Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan, respectively) discovering they’re wearing almost the same fast fashion-y white dress on a reporting trip in the 2022 drama She Said. But Luca Guadagnino’s new psychological thriller After the Hunt —featuring costumes designed by Celine knitwear head Giulia Piersanti, a longtime collaborator of the director’s (their other films together include A Bigger Splash , Call Me By Your Name , and Bones and All )—doesn’t shy away from using quiet luxury as a mode of express