Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorIn celebration of Ruth E. Carter making history as the second costume designer, and the first Black costume designer to receive a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, Carter shares two of her favorite sketches with Variety. “BLACK PANTHER”Director Ryan Coogler presented Ruth E.
Carter with a bible explaining the fictional country of Wakanda, its tribes and all the detail the costume designer could possibly need to help bring Marvel’s “Black Panther” to life.She went back to the comic books and began exploring the links between the story and Africa.
While she incorporated beadwork from various tribal areas of the continent for the all-female warriors, the Dora Milaje, she used modern technology for T’Challa’s Black.
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