Oscars 2019: 'Black Panther' designer Ruth E. Carter on the secret significance of her Academy Award-nominated Wakanda costumes

as informed in Oscar-nominated designer Ruth Carter takes us on a guided tour of her exquisite fashions and explains their authentic African origins. Even before Black Panther premiered in theaters, costume designer Ruth Carter saw her Instagram feed blowing up with fans emulating the film's style. You're not a real historian, you're just kind of the temporary historian for the picture, so you're looking at beadwork and you're looking at carvings and you're looking at masks. So Ryan wanted the Jabari to wear grass skirts during battle, and the Dogon was the perfect place to start with the inspiration. Ryan really wanted to use them, and it was his idea to have these neck rings and these arm bands to represent this form of adornment that we see throughout Africa.

Oscars 2019: How 'Black Panther' designer Ruth E. Carter wove an Afrofuturist fantasy

Credit: Courtesy Matt Kennedy/Marvel StudiosHer final vision was an unabashedly slick hybrid of traditional garments and motifs mined from across the continent. The titular Black Panther, T'Challa, played by Chadwick Boseman, stands out in his monochrome suit. Ruth E. Carter Credit: Rich Fury/Getty Images"I think people have their own idea of what modern and futuristic is. Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o) -- here with the Black Panther himself (Chadwick Boseman) -- wears a kente cloth-inspired dress covered in Wakandan text. Since its release last February, the support for "Black Panther" has been mighty.

'Infinity War': Where Is Lupita Nyong'o's 'Black Panther' Character?

As it stated in Avengers: Infinity War brought together pretty much every character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including some faces most fans assumed we'd never see again. But, not everybody came to the party, including a standout new character from the previous MCU film, Black Panther. Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o) does not participate in the climactic battle in Wakanda at the end of Infinity War. This post contains some spoilers for Infinity War and also Black Panther, which is actually still in some theaters. Infinity War is T'Challa's third outing as Black Panther in the MCU and it brought back Okoye, Shuri, and M'Baku for round two.

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