The king, Queens and MaXhosa: Ruth E Carter’s blockbuster costume designs - The Mail & Guardian

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Ruth Carter and Laduma Ngxokolo’s collaborative costumes make ‘Coming 2 America’ easier on the eye.

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she pulled out many of the stops in exploring that mixed bag of central and western Africa, from cicatrisation to masks. Carter became aware of Ngxokolo’s work while working onJermaine Fowler, Eddie Murphy and Tracy Morgan on the set of the film. Murphy is wearing a cardigan from Laduma Ngxokolo’s MaXhosa Africa brand.

But Ngxokolo was something completely different. “I wanted to connect with him: I had seen his patterns and prints. They resonated with the aesthetic inStep Town. When I went to South Africa for research, he was one of the people I really wanted to meet, but our paths didn’t cross. I bought an outfit from his store,” Carter says.

She adored the colours, the fabric’s lightness, the garments’ comfort. “He was always in my mind. I hoped I would find a place for him,” she says. came Carter’s way, she knew he would be the perfect collaborator. “Working with Laduma has been a gift,” she adds.is the sequel of a story begun by Murphy in 1988. It’s about cultural schisms between the US and Africa.

“I really wanted the representation to work for Nomzamo,” adds Carter. “Laduma and I started going back and forth with what patterns we were putting in the kufi and the long tunics with the rose-petal bearers … eventually we came up with a look and an idea; he went full-steam ahead.” Born in 1986, and raised in a child-headed household from 2002, Ngxokolo grew his now almost 10-year-old company from design savvy and belief in his own traditions. Armed with a second-hand knitting machine and textile design as a matric subject in Gqeberha, he went on to study at the Nelson Mandela University of Technology. His project lends generations-old Xhosa culture the value of high-end fashion statements.

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