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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Emma Childs

In 'Mother Mary,’ Fashion Answers Every Burning Question You Might Have About the Movie

Mother Mary Anne Hathaway David Lowery A24 Iris van Herpen Eric Zachanowich Marie Claire Michaela Coel Taylor Swift
A still from the movie 'Mother Mary' of Anne Hathaway wearing a sculptural gold bodysuit, gold halo headpiece, and gold top coat.

This story contains extensive spoilers for Mother Mary.

At the surface level, Mother Mary is a movie about a pop diva needing a dress. On the eve of her comeback performance, a Gaga-meets-Madonna music phenom (Anne Hathaway) asks her estranged best friend and collaborator, now a renowned designer with her own fashion house (Michaela Coel), for a custom look. Except David Lowery’s new A24-distributed melodrama—which cuts between Hathaway performing synth-y stadium bops, written and produced by Charli xcx, Jack Antonoff, and FKA twigs, to intense one-on-ones in a barn that Sam (Cole) repurposed as her atelier—is far more complex and heady than that.

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