On Kasi Lemmons’ Harriet, Paul Tazewell was tasked with designing costumes for slave-turned-abolitionist Harriet Tubman—a legendary figure, whose looks were nonetheless only documented in a handful…
, Paul Tazewell was tasked with designing costumes for slave-turned-abolitionist Harriet Tubman—a legendary figure, whose looks were nonetheless only documented in a handful of photographs.
“There are a number of photographs of her—I think maybe five that we are familiar with. Most of those photographs are of her as an older woman,” the costume designer says of Tubman, who was born in 1822, and became famous for her work on the Underground Railroad, helping approximately 70 slaves escape the South, beginning in the 1850s.opened up when a younger photo of Tubman emerged.
Striving to track the mindset of Tubman as she evolves throughout the film, Tazewell found a pivotal costume moment in the abolitionist’s first meeting in the North, with Janelle Monáe’s Marie Buchanon. “When she meets Marie, it’s the first time that she sees a black, free woman that is self-created, [who] has the wherewithal to dress in finery that, up to that point, Harriet has only seen on white women,” the costume designer explains.
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