What a lot of futuristic films do and we didn’t, is add things. “Why would we be moving into textures and materials that were not organic and recyclable? It made more sense to useĬottons and wools, not metals and plastics.”Ĭreating a look by subtraction: “I’m realizing this retroactively. Though a colder, sleeker vision was discussed early on, the idea was quickly dismissed. The future, why would you create a cold world for yourself? You’d want something that feels comfortable, happy, less anxious, that shows you participate in society and you’re in touch with your emotions.” “We realized, if you have access to anything you want in It gave it another human element instead of feeling like another tech-y, removed thing.”Ī warmer future: In preliminary discussions, “we didn’t talk garments, we talked emotions and feelings,” he said. “We settled on the idea that there was something sweet about Theodore
“The eye of the phone needed to peek out of his pocket, but it just slid to the bottom, so the idea was to cheat it with a safety pin.”īut should they put the pin on the inside, where it wouldn’t be seen or outside, making it obvious? Eventually, they decided outside. On set, it was a lot smaller than I anticipated,” he said. Storm didn’t know ahead of time what the phone would look like. Humanizing technology: Theodore uses a cellphone, among other devices, to communicate with Samantha, but Mr.
Edited excerpts from that conversation are below. Storm discussed conceptualizing the not-so-distant future and creating a wardrobe based on emotion. In a recent phone conversation from Los Angeles, Mr. Storm’s work was not nominated for an Oscar, it is up for a Costume Designers Guild Award at a ceremony “They’re like, ‘I accept this world and now I’m going to just “I always find the audience is laughing like they’re on board with this idea,” he added. There is a point in the beginning of the film, Mr. The look of the film has been much discussed, especially the high-waisted pants Mr. We’re more like brothers making a project By nature of the way we started, we don’t really stick to our own department. “We still do things in a really backward, silly way. Jonze’s latest film, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as a man who falls in love with his computer’s operating system, he said the process hadn’tĬhanged all that much. When it came to designing the looks for “Her,” Mr. Sweaters and pants her character, Lottie, might wear in the movie, and then watched her roam through a Radio Shack to see how the clothes looked in the real world and how people might react to them. At one point they dressed Cameron Diaz in some of the dowdy Storm said, using “guerilla tactics” to try different things until they found what worked. Barrett, and the cinematographer, Hoyte Van Hoytema. “None of us really studied what we became, so our process is really different,” he said of the film’s production crew, the same team of “rag-tag” guys they had been making videos withįor years, including the production designer, K.
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