Some people can watch a creepy psychological thriller and still sleep like a baby at night—but not this writer. Which is why I was relieved to find myself stepping out of a screening of Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals around noon (i.e., during daylight hours) earlier this week. The film, Ford’s second following 2009’s A Single Man, is the kind of story that drives audiences a little crazy, in the kind of way great movie plots should. To briefly sum it up, three different realms of reality exist simultaneously within the story, and they all underscore the lead character Susan’s (played by Amy Adams) traumatic past and relationship with ex-husband Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal), whose novel she reads and is terribly disturbed by. For about 90 minutes, you’re trying to figure out which of these worlds is real, who’s really the victim, and how the characters will inevitably seek revenge. In addition, for a scary movie–phobe like myself, there was one unexpected source of anxiety: the clothes.

You might assume that any film with Ford’s name attached might spark the same kind of glamorous, beautiful vibes that the designer turned director brings to the red carpet—and in some ways, it did. But make no mistake: Nocturnal Animals is not just a means for Ford to promote his eponymous line with Adams acting as the model.

We got the full scoop when we sat down with the film’s costume designer, Arianne Phillips (who’s also the visionary behind the fashion in films such as Walk the Line, W.E., and the aforementioned A Single Man), who confirmed what we suspected all along about the eerie purpose of clothing in this movies.

Read on for our full chat with Phillips.

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