April 17, 2021
In Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson’s strange and stifling vision of English class, weird breakfast orders and high-society tantrums, Daniel Day-Lewis plays the frigid and aloof couturier Reynolds Woodcock, a man with complex views on work and relationships, offset by a truly beautiful wardrobe: wool overcoats, Anderson & Sheppard suits, spit-polished shoes and, the real star of the film’s costume design, silk cravats, worn neatly under Oxford shirts and tweed blazers. Phantom Thread ...