Name: Creating the aesthetic of an African Empire | Noughts + Crosses: Behind The Scenes | BBC Trailers
Uploaded: 2020-03-23T02:00:34.000Z
Duration: 4 min 14 s
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It's like nothing you've ever seen before.

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I must say the fashion hairstyles make up this incredible man.

What we've tried to do, which is so great, is take African fashion on dhe, fast forward it and see where we would have been at it.

This was the status quo fashion off the whole world.

Look, while still also being very modern.

I mean night, especially on British television, that African clover in our culture on wall costing.

Not so from the hours that what this is this is already incredible.

This is already ground breaking, a lot of patterns and the colors I saw growing up our standard way of living in our world.

If you think fella cootie traditional, higher life, Nigerian kind of vibe, unless we get like, really stark abstract prints in the clothes, like really vivid colors.

I went back in history in Africa and I pulled my research from vintage pictures that are found so that I could be true to what we're doing and bringing everything from the vintage looks to very modern, very funky current looks, which has bean an amazing Jany.

Having this print instead of it just being like, likely sentinel something a three piece suit with the African prints being inspired from, like different tribes or ancient tribes.

Of course, the African history, like the Mandingo warriors, what have spied the tail back?

It's not an African tradition at all ever cares adornment and the warriors were incredibly important within the travel structures.

It also needed to see you can, um, of course, that was the big trick, because can always the same here stove to music point.

Five weeks later, he's got this basically braided hair, especially in a white guy.

We wanted to make sure that both the crosses on the north had some kind of unity across what they're wearing.

So it wasn't that Northwest something entirely different from crosses.

We always wanted to make sure the Nords were operating in a cross culture dominated world.

It's very persistent, so you don't just get a glimpse of it.

You always is very colorful, very unified.

Look, just cost you saying things about the different types of people in the establishment.

Gilly in measuring culture is a big state.

Just wearing the Getty is almost like a crown.

It's the first time I've been on a show where my type of beauty is celebrated, and when I say my type of beauty, I mean natural black Africans, what they look like, how they dress and how they were they here.

It's not seen through the lens off Western beauty.

The darker the skin, the more throw your hair is.

The big your hair is, the more beautiful you are deemed to pay.

Finally, some sunshine you might even get some color.

Everything that I've seen is the ideals of beauty in our world to something that would have been different culture being different for 2000 years.

In today's day and age, it's fashionable to get bombing announcements to go and fill your lips.

No, no one making the fictional moves across there.

But we actually realizing what's happening in society.

The idea of a desirable woman Change is amazing, Jimmy.

I think it's definitely something different people haven't seen before, and it's exciting.