Fritz Lang’s stunning 1927 classic is just as pertinent to life today as it was nearly 100 years ago, deploying a lush aesthetic far beyond its time. At its core, the film is a critique and exploration of the schism between social classes — a schism widened by industrialization and technology. Gesturing toward the tenets of minimalism and the architecture of the Bauhaus, Fritz Lang perfectly articulates the inhumanity of unchecked capitalism while positioning technology as a new kind of god figure within its structure. And so the costuming (for the lead female role) is unabashedly risque and fascinating in its twofoldness — walking the line between old world and new, material and spiritual, metallics and flesh.