Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
That movie is writer-director Peter StricklandsIn Fabric, a darkly comedic horror film about the power of coveting clothes.
I was always thinking of an object that was malevolent.
I really wanted to explore responses to clothing, but I wasnt interested in fashion as such.
I was more interested in this very visceral response to clothing.
You know, the things that drive us to buy something.
I think clothing is inherently haunted to some degree.
Youre really changing my outlook on consignment shopping.Sorry!
Once the human presence is on clothing youve got a lot of mileage to tell all kinds of stories.
ThePhantom ThreadIve been waiting for, honestly.Oh, I love that movie.
The fingers were longer and splayed out as if they were casting a spell on you.
Sometimes I think that might explain why I lost my hair.
Theyre very eerie things, very scary.
What was annoying about that scene was we didnt have time to finish it.
Its just a real shame that we couldnt finish it.
The MPAA demanded we cut it, otherwise we were going to get a harsher rating for the film.
We were not allowed to show Fatma licking [the menstrual blood from the mannequin].
We are so used to seeing women being mutilated [onscreen].
I mean, its just not remotely on the same level.
But I dont want to get into this kind of moralistic argument.
There are eightSawmovies, and this is one woman licking vagina blood off her fingers.
I would never force it on somebody if they didnt want to watch.
Every single line Fatma Mohamed delivers as the lead shop woman is incredible.
Purchasing clothes is an act of poetry for her.
Plus, I was thinking about having worked in retail and how the British use euphemistic language so cunningly.
Right now theyre trying to increase the retirement age to 75 and they have this hashtag, #AgeConfidence.
Its just bizarre, and I remember this job advertised for a night shift stacking shelves in a warehouse.
The job title was twilight replenishment operative.
Of course Im exaggerating, but Im stretching the elastic of believability.
Im never snapping that elastic.
I remember those stores.
There was this element of fantasy.
They were always aspiring to elegance, but they were always slightly off.
Maybe its best to leave it as a mystery?
Youre both revealing yourself and hiding yourself.
What was interesting is the gender thing.
In a way, you could hide more effectively in a different gender.
Also, I always wanted to write a bad character that I could love.
