‘Promising Young Woman’ Costume Designer Breaks Down Carey Mulligan’s Killer Looks
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterAfter reading the script for Emerald Fennell’s revenge thriller “Promising Young Woman,” costume designer Nancy Steiner pictured a leading lady who was “disheveled” or in gentler terms, “less-than put together.”After all, Cassie — the film’s main character portrayed by Carey Mulligan — is depressed. The 30-year-old medical school dropout never recovered from a mysterious traumatic event, one that’s inspired her to fill her nights exacting revenge on toxic men.