Playing Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown,” Timothée Chalamet had 67 costume changes. If you didn’t noticeye7, then as the costume designer on the film, I did my job: A mark of success in costume design is your work’s becoming invisible. Clothes help tell the story. But they should not become the story.

For any film, the early conversations I have with the director are rarely about the clothes themselves and more about the world we are creating. Ultimately it is the immersive experience, when all the elements come together, that is the goal — to transport the audience to a time and place. Costumes are not just there for show or to be looked at. They are to be heard more than seen. And what they’re saying develops the character, sets a tone, creates a feeling or underscores an emotion.

ImageThe cover of Bob Dylan’s 1963 album, “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.”Credit...Blank Archives/Archive Photos, via Getty Images

I learned from working with Madonna for 22 years not to be too focused on what those in the audience will find appealing — that we shouldn’t even be thinking about them, actually — but instead to be confident about our creative choices. I designed the costumes for six of her tours, several album covers, editorial shoots, more than 15 videos, a play in London’s West End and a film she directed. Costuming for her was about what she wanted to express and not necessarily how she wanted to be seen.

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That’s the philosophy I brought to the costume design of “A Complete Unknown.” It involved not just showing where we were, but also who Bob Dylan was at any given moment,x777 how confident he was, his ingenuity, the resources he had, what his influences were, who he was becoming as an artist.

I was also thinking about how I could assist the work of the actors — help them get there, almost like giving them beam-me-up suits. I believe my job is to help ground actors in their characters, to find that part of themselves physically through the way a costume feels. I think we can all relate to this — if we walk out the door to meet someone and we feel like we’re wearing the wrong shoes, we turn around and change them. Clothes make us feel a certain way.

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