


The portrayal of such dressing code indicated that women were equipped to fight and win. In most cases, women featured in the film are shown wearing a functional dress and rubber-soled boots, prepared for running and fighting (A. The Elizabethan-style long coat dress featured the characters as powerful people who could work to accomplish their mission in society. The film designer continues to depict their characters by indicating the movement of their costumes as they jump across the buildings. Through these attires the designer managed to depict heir persona and show the audience the power of costumes in portraying the nature of every person in the movie. To effectively achieve the costumes’ power in the movie, Barrett created several characters wearing sleek clothes, micro-sunglasses, and duster-length coats. In other words, Barrett depicted the power of costumes in promoting fashion. The designer managed to differentiate the changes in time and fashion created by the use of various clothes of the characters in the film. As a result, the costumes’ designer worked diligently to distinguish between the ultra-stylized virtual simulation, the sleek, and the dystopia of the 20 th century. The use of sleek clothes on most of the characters was meant to help the audience reveal their power in changing the global perception of fashion and trends. Consequently, designing some of the futuristic costumes on predicting the emergence of various fashion and designs was the only ideal way of achieving the mission (A. One of the primary reasons why the designer Kym Barrett used costume in The Matrix was to predict the future of trendy fashion in the world.
