Award Winning Costumes That Brought Films To Life

Hidden Figures Was An Awesome Slice Of The ’60s

Hidden Figures is another period piece, but this time, that period was a whole lot closer to present day than some of the other award-winning movies. Bringing the true story of Katherine Goble’s work at NASA to life, costume designer Renee Erlich Kalfus was presented with a unique challenge in that the real Katherine sewed all her own clothes to fit NASA’s dress code — something that Taraji P. Henson loved. “She was restricted in her clothes, she was in heels, she was in stockings — in the whole thing — and she did [the running scenes]. That was one of the real tensions and she didn’t really want anything to help with that discomfort. She really wanted to feel it. That was a combination of Taraji wanting to do it real and we just didn’t make any [costume] allowances for it,” Renee said in an interview with Fashionista.