Our guest has made history for several reasons. Ruth E Carter is the first woman of colour to receive an Oscar for costume design for the iconic film "Black Panther", where among other things she transformed Chadwick Boseman into the King of Wakanda. She made history again earlier this year when she got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, making her the first Black costume designer to receive the distinction and only the second costume designer ever to have a star.
"Malcolm X", "Do The Right Thing", "Selma" and "Dolemite Is My Name" are among her 60 film and TV projects that are being showcased in a retrospective of her trailblazing 40-year career at the Scad Fash Museum of Fashion + Film in Atlanta.
Ruth E Carter speaks to Eve Jackson about being influenced by indigenous tribes across Africa, the challenges she faced in her latest work designing more than 800 costumes for "Coming 2 America" with Eddie Murphy and cutting her teeth on 14 of Spike Lee's iconic films. She also tells us more about being in production for "Black Panther 2", scheduled for release in summer 2022.
