From Wakanda to Zamunda: Ruth E. Carter on dreaming up costumes for Coming 2 America’s fashion-forward royals
costumes for Black Panther’s Wakandan superheroes back in 2017, she ended up taking a brief detour via another fictional African nation after cast members Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira and Daniel Kaluuya asked her to help them out for their Coming to America-themed fancy dress party. The actors had hoped that she and her team might lend them some cast-offs from the Marvel movie’s wardrobe department.