Behind the Scenes at Vogue World! | PLUS Angela Bassett and Ruth E. Carter on Working Together For 25+ Years

October 27, 2025·39 min·3 clips

Tina Turner gave Angela Bassett her own costume and did her makeup in 10 minutes for a film scene.

Host Cho Minardi opens by capturing the controlled chaos of Vogue World preparations, including voice notes from staffers reporting from the American Airlines lounge at 5 a.m., from the Beverly Hills Erewhon, and from the Paramount Studios war room where editors were building arrivals galleries in real time. The runway highlights described include Grace Abrams performing while emerging from a loading truck, Baz Luhrmann and Nicole Kidman appearing together, and the entire cast galloping back down the runway to the Beach Boys at the close, with fashion writer Hannah Jackson reporting from a packed front row alongside Viola Davis. Cho then introduces the main interview with Angela Bassett and costume designer Ruth E. Carter, who have collaborated since Bassett played Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It and continued through Black Panther and Wakanda Forever. Carter describes herself and Bassett as thick as thieves with a poetry between them, and explains that the Marvel production owns the Queen Ramonda costume itself, so bringing it to Vogue World required coordination with the studio. She talks through the significance of the Isicholo, the large ringed headpiece worn by Queen Ramonda, explaining that it honors Zulu women and that every element of the costume is designed to tell a story about the character's dignity and power. Bassett discusses the experience of returning to the costume after completing the Wakanda Forever shoot, describing the feeling of wearing it again as immediately transporting and emotional. Carter says the costumes she designs are not decorative but narrative, each element chosen to externalize who the character is rather than simply what she looks like. The two discuss their shared approach to building strong Black women on screen and the responsibility they feel to audiences.

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