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His films obsessively explore identity, performance, and transformation through elaborate costume and visual design, particularly in Eyes Wide Shut where masks and costumes reveal hidden desires and social masks.

He creates visually sumptuous worlds where costume is central to storytelling, using extravagant dress and masquerade as metaphors for reinvention and theatrical self-expression in films like Moulin Rouge!

His gothic fantasy films treat costume and physical transformation as gateways to alternate realities and deeper truths, with masquerade and disguise serving as central narrative and thematic devices.