The Mulleavy sisters, celebrated for their raw (and often goth-inflected) fabric treatments, conceived a look for Ms. Portman's dancer in the dark that echoes the movie's alternating moods of innocence and iniquity.
As if on cue, men's designers are trying to conceive a new look in pants or shorts, and here are just a few notes from the stronger collections: from Loden Dager, a three-year-old designer collective, there were Thai fishing shorts mixed in with some smart-looking suits in upbeat colors.
"He's the kind of guy who buys his suits at the end-of-season sale," explained Charles Shyer, the film's director and producer, who worked with Mr. Law and Beatrix Aruna Pasztor, the costume designer, to conceive a contemporary look for the character.
Running Scared was conceived as "a look at the way we live now, which is to say with great despair, and regret.
No matter how meticulously conceived a picture may look, it also achieves a feeling of epiphany — a heightened sense of existence in the shutter click's here and now.
"There's conceiving a symphony.
He started out by designing the console for a car-racing game, and then by conceiving the look of the attackers for a knockoff of Space Invaders called Space Fever.
And the app that he conceived looks a lot like an electronic book.
We have one building conceived to look like a large single residence with a mansard, and inside there are seven apartments.
