costume party

His films obsessively explore identity, performance, and costume as instruments of power and deception, most notably in Eyes Wide Shut where masquerade is central to the narrative.

He celebrates transformation, artifice, and performative identity through vibrant costumes and theatricality, using dress and disguise as expressions of freedom and self-reinvention.

His maximalist visual style treats costume and masquerade as essential storytelling elements, with spectacular production design that makes elaborate dress central to films like The Great Gatsby and Moulin Rouge!