#Ruth Carter
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Ruth E. Carter’s work cannot be understated, beyond the cinematography, lighting, and VFX; her work is the true bow that holds it all together.
I can feel that Oscar in her hands.
#Marvel#MCU#Phase 4#Black Panther#Black Panther 2#BP2#Black Panther Wakanda Forever#Black Panther 2 Wakanda Forever#Wakanda Forever#BPWF#WF#Ruth Carter#Costume design
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Namora (2022)
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CGI bar
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An actual set, with hundreds of stalagmites and stalactites.
CGI gun and hotel room
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Hand-made decorations and set pieces you'll barely see watching the movie
CGI suits
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2100 COSTUMES DIRECTLY INSPIRED BY AFRICAN AND MAYAN CULTURE
the level of difference in effort, care, detail, and inspiration ... it's embarrassing.
I collected some of the above from different posts and articles so I could have everything in one place, so, sources: black widow and far from home, digital costumes in endgame, Ruth Carter's costumes (definitely check out this article, it has a lot of cool details!) black panther set (1), black panther set (2),
#as my friend kyla said when we watched this movie for the first time#ryan coogler really put his whole cooglussy into this#black panther#bpwf#wakanda forever#black panther wakanda forever#black panther 2#ryan coogler#ruth carter#ruth e. carter#anti mcu#mcu#marvel
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RUTH E. CARTER
Best Achievement in Costume Design, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Portraits by Mark Seliger
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“Shuri's rise from baby sister to Black Panther was very unexpected, but she embraced it. Her conflict with her new role as Black Panther is seen within the gold and silver in her suit. Her brother, T'Challa wore silver vibranium while the nemesis, Kilmonger wore gold.” - Ruth Carter
Ruth Carter [Award winning costume designer] on the design details behind Shuri’s [played by Letitia Wright] Black Panther suit in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever [Dir. Ryan Coogler]
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#Ruth Carter is the TRUTH#letitia wright#shuri#bpwf#wakanda forever#black panther#marvel#ruth carter#I love the attention to detail that went into the making of her suit#marvel assembled
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"Nice to see you again."
Ruth E. Carter becomes the first Black woman to win two Oscars. She accepts the award for Best Costume Design for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
#ruth carter#ruth e carter#black panther wakanda forever#academy awards#oscars 2023#film#she deserves
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just so you all know - ruth e. carter is not only the queen of costume design for her work on the black panther movies, but she also gave us the iconic iconic fits of teen beach movie
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Behind the scenes with Mabel and Letitia. 🌺
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Shuri's Fashion Part 1
Compiling all of Shuri's outfits because I love her character and all the work Ruth Carter (Costume Designer for Black Panther and Black Panther Wakanda Forever) put into them.
"With Shuri, we wanted to show designs that feel young and vibrant. I really wanted her to have vibrancy and freshness, and pop colors."
-Carter
“You meet her and she’s not interested in being in anything traditional. So we didn’t give her any beads, any kente cloth, nothing like that. All of her materials have a vibe of being eco-friendly and forward-thinking.”
-Carter
The very first outfit we see Shuri in:
Cropped top and mini skirt. Something we'll see is a pattern for her.
"And then you have Shuri who is wearing an Adinkra symbol. This Adinkra symbol means purpose, and she certainly has a purpose in Wakanda."
-Carter
Specifically it is the Wawa Aba symbol meaning "seed of the Wawa tree" This seed is known for its hardness. So Wawa Aba also symbolizes hardness, strength, toughness, endurance, durability, and so on.
The second outfit is the Traditional grab worn at Warrior Falls
The corset is inspired by the Dinka tribe, with clay beads and a long spear at the back. The combination was so uncomfortable for Letitia Wright to wear, it lead to the "This corset is really uncomfortable..." line.
The jaw piece is made of Shark teeth
Next is her white lab dress. She's finally back in something she created for herself. And of course, if it ain't a cropped top with a mini skirt. It's a mini-dress. 🤣
“I decided that the overlay would a type of material that is protective, cool and fun. I felt like it should look like it was made from recyclable fabric or recyclable materials. The first dress we see Shuri wear is a white dress with a mesh overlay. Overlays look like they are protecting the fabric that’s underneath, or they create a story of their own, so most of her costumes have these protective layers."
“I was faced with the challenge of the ‘lab coat’ and I felt like it was so cliché,” said Carter. “Any time someone says, ‘We’re in the lab,’ people go, ‘Well, get the lab coat!’” Instead, Carter fashioned this strapless dress and gave it a mesh overlay that subtly suggests a lab coat and also feels like something that Shuri would have invented herself.
But Carter says the shape of her clothing still holds meaning. "Her first dress is a white dress and we created the front of it to be this cylindrical round shape — and I was trying to connect shapes within Wakanda so you see them repeat. It's the language of Wakanda."
“It was a big challenge for me to come up with a wearable lab outfit that would fit the character of Shuri. She’s the young designer genius of the Wakandan Design Group and she’s very forward-thinking, so I don’t see her wearing a standard lab coat."
-Carter
Next up, her lab outfit during the Korean car chase scene
Another ding for cropped tops and mini skirts
Next the "Broken White Boy" scene. Another mini-dress with an overlay.
For the next few scenes, Shuri is wearing an orange jumpsuit with stitching meant to resemble a panther face.
Shuri on the way to the Jabari tribe and sneaking into her lab wearing Basotho blankets
And finally we get to Shuri's battle outfit
It will never not be funny to me that Shuri had to stop to put on makeup before she entered the battlefield. And she didn't just stop at the warrior dots. She had to add eye shadow, lipstick, and put her braids in an updo. An absolute Queen.
Final scene before end credits and another ding for mini-skirts
And her final outfit where she's given a more 'mature' look. Unfortunately we don't get a very good look at the full ensemble.
All in all, Shuri's fashion seems to favor, short dresses and skirts; Mesh and see through overlays for lab protection; Clothing she makes for her self out of recyclable materials; and a preference for white and orange colors. And of course, a majority of her footwear favors SNEAKers. 🤣
And that was just BP1 😩 The next few posts might need to get broken into more parts.
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I just love the attention to detail on the regalia. Just love it
#my new love#my art#having fun making art#my art 2023#having fun#marvel#black panther#namor x shuri#shuri of wakanda#namor#mcu namor#regalia#art chops#ruth carter
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Ruth Carter Stapleton - The Gift of Inner Healing - Word - 1976 (cover design by Christian Brothers Visual Communication)
#witches#healers#occult#vintage#healing#gift#word books#ruth carter#ruth carter stapleton#inner healing#the gift of inner healing#1976#christian brothers visual communication
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I know Tenoch is not there at the Oscars but I've seen him four times now on screen and I feel so happy 😭😭😭
RUTH CARTER WON FOR THOSE AMAZING AMAZING COSTUMES
IM CRYING
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WHOOO HOOOOO!!!! YAAAAAASSSS Ruth Carter!!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾
She deserved that!!! Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
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God I fucking love Ruth Carter. An actual queen, honest to god.
#i've watched basically every film she's worked on#and the fact that she waited for the first black panther for her first oscar is a crime#and this is only her second?#nah she's an icon#oscars#oscars 2023#academy awards 2023#liveblog#marvel#black panther#wakanda forever#ruth carter#corner conversations#film
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2022 HCA Creative Arts Awards - Best Costume Design
(Hollywood Critics Association)
Mary Zophres - Babylon
Ruth Carter - Black Panthere: Wakanda Forever
Catherine Martin - Elvis
Jenny Beaven - Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Gersha Phillips - The Woman King
#hca film awards#creative arts awards#nominations#costume design#film#mary zophres#babylon#ruth carter#black panther#wakanda forever#catherine martin#elvis#jenny beaven#mrs. harris goes to paris#gersha phillips#the woman king#best costumes in film#costumes
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Black artist exploration: Ruth E Carter
The Academy Award winner and Hampton Alum, best known for her costume design in The Black Panther film series and numerous Spike Lee films has been at it for over 40 years. Let's do a run-down of her decades-long career.
🪡🧵🪡🧵🪡🧵🪡🧵🪡🧵The Phenomenal Ruth Carter🪡🧵🪡🧵🪡🧵🪡🧵🪡🧵🪡🧵
Ruth E. Carter´s Beginnings
Ruth E. Carter was born and raised in Springfield, MA. Initially, Carter saw herself on stage instead of backstage, starring in numerous uni productions as a theatre major during her time at Hampton. She picked up her sewing skills as a teenager practicing with different sewing patterns and used that as a part of her way to express herself as she was the youngest of 8. It was during her time at Hampton that a professor asked her to help in the costume department, and she found her true passion in costume design. She had a small workshop where she created costumes for the theatre department, the travel dance companies, the campus musicals, and the steppers.
In an interview with American Matters she discussed where her love for costume design began: ¨...I realized that it was an artistic medium. And I got to see my work on stage and look at color balance and relationships between people by what they were wearing, and it allowed me to step outside of my desire to be on stage and inside the story, it allowed me to step outside the story and orchestrate what I was doing with all the characters. And that’s how I fell in love with it. I thought this is big. It felt bigger than just playing the one character.¨
After graduating, she went back home and interned at her local theater for a year. The next year, she went across the country to New Mexico to intern with the Santa Fe Opera. She was dedicated to growing her craft, and it was during this time that she truly fell in love with costume design and felt like she was stepping into something new. She moved to LA at 26, and later that year, she worked with the Los Angeles Theatre Center and worked her way up to an administration job. Carter realized over time that administration was not what she wanted and found an opportunity to travel with a dance company as their costume designer. It was at this time she met Spike Lee.
Meeting Spike Lee would redirect Carter to her true passion for creating costumes for film and TV. At the time, Spike Lee had begun production on She´s Gotta Have It and asked Carter to consider working on a student thesis film. It was during this time she understood how film wasn't so focused on bravado as theatre arts were, the focus was more dedicated to showcasing the details, or the subtleties of characters. She understood that even everyday people, in their everyday lives, are telling stories through the clothes they wear and how they wear them.
In an interview with NPR´s Fresh Air: ¨There is someone that you personify in that vision of yourself, in your mind, and there's also that vision of someone who we see, the representative of you. And that's where fashion stops and costume begins, because we create a mood for ourselves. We create a voice that we want to project to the world without us saying a word. And that's what costumes do. They communicate amongst each other. Either they're collaborative or they are in opposition. They say who you are or who you want to be or how you want to be perceived. And that's the part of clothing that can be so simple and yet so complicated.¨
Her Most Iconic Designs
Malcolm X directed by Spike Lee (1992)
To create the costumes for this project Ruth was blessed with the opportunity to interview Betty Shabazz about her time with Malcolm and who he was behind closed doors. She also was granted access to his prison letters allowing for a more intimate understanding of who this person was before he became Malcolm X. To build a costume for a real person, she looked into his personal history and textile history from the 1920s to '60s. The costume design for Malcolm X would grant her the first of multiple prestigious film nominations, garnering an Oscar Nomination.
Carter describes the costuming for Malcolm X:
¨...each stage in his life deserved a different color palette since his mindset was different in all the stages of his life. When he is Malcolm Little and Detroit Red, the color palette is playful with the zoot suits. When he is incarcerated, the palette is a blue like he is being cleansed. When he emerges as Malcolm X, there are black, white, and grey notes for his clean, strict, and unwavering devotion to the nation of Islam." This dark suit, was worn during the time that Malcolm X was fully immersed in the nation of Islam.¨
Black Panther (2018) and Wakanda Forever (2022)
Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever would grant Ruth her first and second Oscar win for outstanding Costume Design. Her designs sit on display at the North Carolina Art Museum honoring her ability to tap into Afro-futurism in design. For these projects she studied not only the comics but kept a specific imagery in mind and remain dedicated to the artistry and storytelling of traditional clothing around Africa, specifically South Africa. Within the story there were multiple fictional tribes represented, a heritage of beading, pattern work, and specific garments were important in portraying the station at which the different characters existed, taking from real life examples instead of creating her own separate designs.
From Ruth E Carter´s website on designing the costumes for Black Panther (2018)
When Carter was in the initial planning stages for the film, she printed out four words and pinned them to her wall: beautiful, positive, forward, and colorful. These adjectives guided her process and can all be used to describe the stunning Black Panther costumes, which merge technology and tradition.
“I think people will be able to contextualize and look at African art and appreciate it so much differently. That’s what we did: We appreciated it, we reimagined it, we took it to another level, another place, and there were inspirations everywhere!”
School Daze (1988)
The 1988 film would be the first of many projects Spike Lee and Carter would collaborate on together. This film was inspired by Lee's times at Morehouse and touched on numerous -isms that exist within the Black community, specifically being exasperated in a college setting. For this project, they would collaborate with the iconic fashion designer known for his ¨street couture,¨ Willi Smith creator of Williwear who provided designs for all of the costumes for the homecoming scenes. Although her time at Hampton would prepare her for the type of costume designing needed for this project, Carter found herself incredibly overwhelmed. This was a small production, with a small budget but she found a way to manage. This project would set the tone for her career to come.
Advice from an interview I thought all creatives need to hear:
¨My advice is that you get a strong foundation of how you go about coming up with ideas and I think it’ll stay with you for the rest of your career. My foundation was research. I love to research.¨ Carter in an interview with American Matters: Creative spark Feb, 9th 2023.
Carter Discussing Costume Design vs. Fashion Design
¨Overall, fashion is about a development of a personality in the world, usually based around a real person that is a celebrity or a muse. Costume design is creating the psychology of the fictional character and the person behind the clothes. When fashion designers give you something, they don’t expect you to, like, dirty it up. They don’t expect you to make it look oversized or rumpled. But with costuming, the clothes are part of telling a story. That story could be that the actors slept in their car. So it’s often really hard to incorporate commercial design because we’re working with different goals in mind.¨
Thank you for reading! I hope you learned something new.
Signing off,
B, the Virgo
sources:
#ruth carter#virgo#wikipedia#black panther#black artist#costume design#hollywood#spike lee#school daze
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