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Tessa Thompson is Stanfields girlfriend, with hyperchromatic curls, paint-splattered jumpsuits, and politically motivated earrings.
Danny Glover is Stanfields humble mentor, whose anachronistic Westernwear seems to suggest a secret past.
Someone asked me recently, What designer did you use, who gave you clothes?
I said, Nobody!
He had clothing pieces for years.
He wore khaki pants, and the same shoes that mightve been his dads at one point or another.
He got vintage ties that mightve been from his uncle.
He has a style that has pretty much stayed consistent probably since he was in high school.
Subtly, his costuming matures: Instead of nondescript fuzzy sweaters, he starts wearing more color.
The color palette needed to be strong like that as well.
Armie and I were having a conversation about who this guy was.
And has a man-bun.
The man-bun didnt end up happening, but everything else stuck.
The patch itself came from a local Oakland leather shop owned by one of Rileys friends.
This is the perfect example of that.
What was interesting was Danny himself has a collection of Stetsons.
[Detroit is] Afro-punk, Afrofuturism, really pro-feminist, very smart, very savvy.
Shes not necessarily speaking through words, but through art, Govan says.
Her character, in my mind, had a lot of layers, adds Govan.
Every ounce of Detroit was vintage.
Every ounce of her was researched and thought about.
We borrowed from a punk area, we borrowed from Patti Smith, with the blazer and the tie.
As for that Future Is Female Ejaculation shirt?
It was meant to have that impact.
It was meant to beOh, okay.
[Detroit] uses every every piece of clothing on her body to articulate what shes thinking.
