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Black Panther's Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter Breaks Down Her Iconic Costumes | Vanity Fair

Ruth E. Carter walks through how she built an entire fictional culture's fashion language from historical research and Afrofuturist imagination. A landmark case study in costume as world-building at the highest level.

Vanity Fair · 13 min · Intermediate · DES · Production Design · 2020

What you take away

Building a fictional culture's costume language starts with real-world research, not pure invention.

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