Costumes for film and television can often become so iconic that they transcend the actors who wore them. Simply envision a blue, gingham pinafore and a pair of red shoes or a little black dress and a string of pearls: these costumes conjure characters well before the movie stars who played them.

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness is a triptych within one film, but it reveals a common thread throughout: exerting control. In costume designing the anthology, Jennifer Johnson also had to determine boundaries.“The challenge was absolutely delineating the actors playing three different characters, in three different stories,” says the 2018 CDGA winner for I, Tonya.