46 The Costume Designer Spring 2018
THE SKETCHBOOK
Black Panther
You would have to have been vacationing
far from the Intergalactic Empire to not
know Black Panther's dominance at the
box office was accompanied with a col-
lective swoon over Ruth Carter's Costume
Design. Marrying African tradition with sci-
ence fiction and technology, Carter rooted
every adornment with a resonant meaning.
She feels the resulting Afrofuturistic designs
"connect everything that I've designed about
slavery and about how Africans came to this
country, and the possibilities of what could
have happened to the culture."
Costume Designer Ruth Carter
Illustration by Keith Christensen