Ruth E. Carter Teaches Us How To Dress Like Royalty

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🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Two months into 2021, and we're still at home, but we know we're not the only ones. At least we have streaming, food delivery, and podcasts (wink, wink) to keep us company. Speaking of streaming...lately, our Friday nights have been spent watching 90's and early 00's re-runs. That's why we're beyond excited for the return of Coming to America (available on Amazon Prime March 5th). It's the best of both worlds - old-school nostalgia and new content for the weekend.

To get us in a regal state of mind, Academy Award-Winning Costume Designer, Ruth E. Carter, stopped by (virtually of course), to give Cori and Charli some tips, and share anecdotes about her 30-plus year career, styling some of our favorite celebrities for the most iconic movies.

NOTE: This episode is sponsored by Crown Royal

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0:00.0	This special episode of The Yes Girl Podcast is brought to you by your friends at Crown Royal.
0:06.2	Crown Royal is committed to celebrating diversity in all forms, and their brand partnership with
0:11.6	Coming to America is emblematic of this commitment. To celebrate the return of this iconic film,
0:17.6	Crown Royal collaborated with Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter to produce the
0:22.4	limited edition Crown Royal Pack that perfectly blends the worlds of Crown Royal and coming to America
0:27.9	together. So be sure to check out Coming to America on Amazon Prime starting March 5th.
0:38.9	Ta-le! Point Murray, my sister, how are you? I'm well. I'm very, very well. I'm actually really excited.
0:48.9	I did a thing without you. I hope you don't get mad. What'd you do? So I kind of saw coming to
0:54.5	America the sequel already. Well, you always get to be superb, you guys. Always superb. But I am
1:01.9	going to let it slide because today's guest and what we're celebrating is so appropriately
1:07.8	themed to you cheating on me. Yes, which is why I brought it up. So it's not really a cheat.
1:12.0	It was more of an education. I had to do my research though. Exactly. For why we are talking with
1:19.2	Academy Award-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter. Yes, friend to the show, friend to
1:25.9	guest girl podcast. She's been in the show before we had a great come in with Ms. Carter.
1:31.4	Yes, and she is a friend to essence. We have honored her with our Black Women in Hollywood
1:35.2	Award. But she has her own receipts, okay? First of all, she went to Hampton. Hello,
1:44.5	and although she won the Academy Award for costume designing Black Panther,
1:48.2	she was nominated three times before for her work with Spike Lee, which included Malcolm X,
1:53.6	Steven Stillbergs, Amastad, and of course, Black Panther. Ten plus films she's worked on with Spike.
2:02.4	And I've got to say this too. We recently did some interviews with the cast of coming to America.
2:07.1	Eddie Murphy said it was her work in Crooklyn because he reminded me that he is from Brooklyn and he
2:13.7	just made her the customs, the jellies, all those little things really, really brought him back to
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