{"id":10400,"date":"2019-12-01T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10400"},"modified":"2019-12-29T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T23:45:00","slug":"costuming-queen-slim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/01\/costuming-queen-slim\/","title":{"rendered":"Costuming QUEEN & SLIM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Vanity Fair<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen & Slim:<\/em> How Black Panthers, Diahann Carroll Inspired the Film\u2019s Designer Costumes<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Costume designer Shiona L. Turini walks us through the film\u2019s sleek sartorial choices, from Slim\u2019s custom red tracksuit to Queen\u2019s Brother Vellies boots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0YOHANA DESTA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(L-R) Director Melina Matsoukas, Indya Moore and
costume designer Shiona Turini on the set of\u00a0Queen & Slim.<\/em>
BY LELANIE FOSTER\/UNIVERSAL.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In Queen & Slim,<\/em> the sweeping road movie thriller directed by Melina Matsoukas<\/strong> and written by Lena Waithe,<\/strong> the costumes are culled from a world of rich cultural sources. The revolutionary Black Panthers, blaxploitation movies, and Diahann Carroll were all used as reference points by designers like Kerby Jean-Raymond<\/strong> of Pyer Moss, Dapper Dan,<\/strong>and Aurora James<\/strong> of Brother Vellies, all of whom contributed looks to the film about a young black couple (Daniel Kaluuya<\/strong> and Jodie Turner-Smith<\/strong>) who go on the run after killing a racist, jumpy police officer. The end result is a film that is equal parts thought-provoking and impossibly stylish, a sartorial vision funneled through the eye of one specific person: costume designer Shiona L. Turini.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen & Slim<\/em> is a first feature for many involved: It\u2019s Matsoukas\u2019s debut as a feature director (she rose to fame after helming sleek music videos for the likes of Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong> and Snoop Dogg<\/strong>); it\u2019s Waithe\u2019s first feature screenplay; it\u2019s Turner-Smith\u2019s first time carrying a film. It\u2019s also Turini\u2019s first time costuming a movie. The designer, a former editorial stylist and director who worked at magazines like Cosmopolitan<\/em> and W,<\/em> first turned to the screen after a chance meeting with Matsoukas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe met on a camping trip in Joshua Tree for one New Year\u2019s Eve and we really just hit it off,\u201d Turini tells Vanity Fair.<\/em> \u201cWe work very similarly, we\u2019re the same age. It was a very instant connection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By that point, Matsoukas was already an established music video director (she first worked with Beyonc\u00e9 in 2007), but Turini had no clue about her friend\u2019s status in the industry. She only realized later when she was making a professional website and asked to see Matsoukas\u2019s site; the director didn\u2019t have one, but pointed her in the direction of her management team, who had catalogued her work thus far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Vanity Fair Queen & Slim: How Black Panthers, Diahann Carroll Inspired the Film\u2019s Designer Costumes Costume designer Shiona L. Turini walks us through the film\u2019s sleek sartorial choices, from Slim\u2019s custom red tracksuit to Queen\u2019s Brother Vellies boots. BY\u00a0YOHANA DESTA In Queen & Slim, the sweeping road movie thriller directed by Melina Matsoukas and written by Lena Waithe, the costumes are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}