Award-winning costume designer and CDG member, Ruth E. Carter took home her first Oscar in 2019 for the Afro-futuristic designs in Ryan Coogler’s film, “Black Panther.” Carter has taken the costumes to the next level in Coogler’s epic sequel, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Carter shares that the sequel involved the task of updating the world of Wakanda, while creating an entirely new underwater civilization inspired by Mayan culture. While “Black Panther” required the creation of 700 costumes, she shares that the sequel required, “maybe three times that, about 2,100. We had all of Wakanda and then we built another world, the Talokanil, and had to bring up a new military, the Navy. We had a crew in Los Angeles and Atlanta, but also things were being made in New Zealand, India, Paris, London, New York. My team in Atlanta at Tyler Perry Studios was a good 20 to 30 people doing intake, aging and dyeing, specialty work, build. We had a floor of just cutters and seamstresses and another floor with the tailors.” Read the full interview on @HollywoodReporter by @ingridanneschmidt. _ #CostumeDesignersGuild #CDG892