Important fashion empowerment sleeves – la Repubblica

They are the latest obsession of fashion, cinema and red carpets. A symbol of power and self-affirmation. In Poor creatures director Yorgos Lanthimos explained to the costume designer Holly Waddington who, to create Bella Baxter’s look, the protagonist played by Emma Stone, had to be “all about the sleeves”. Which in fact – with exaggerated volumes, puffs and fru fru details – accompany the heroine’s emancipation in the post-Victorian atmosphere of the film. Best actress for the film at the Baftas, Emma Stone, he collected the statuette with a puffy one-shoulder dress perfectly in keeping with the looks of the film.