How Lydia Tár Became Our Problematic Menswear Fave

There are many things to be gleaned from watching Tár, the new Todd Field film starring Cate Blanchett as its titular EGOT-winning, domineering maestro-antiheroine. There are the expected post-movie ruminations, to be sure: about ego, cancel culture, gender and power dynamics. But there is another, slightly unexpected notion flowering in the post-release discourse—a lingering thought of, Damn, do I need to start dressing like Lydia Tár? The aim, the film’s costume designer Bina Daigeler explains, was to dress Tár—a working conductor at the peak of her game, and a self-proclaimed “U-Haul lesbian” who divides her time between the elite intellectual… Read Full Article