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How ‘Hidden Figures’ Costume Designer Used Fashion to Bring an Untold Story to Light

Only three weeks after opening, Hidden Figures is still going strong, grossing over $64 million at the box office so far and garnering critical acclaim. The film tells the untold story of three African-American women — Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) — who worked as mathematicians at NASA and made history with the launch of American astronaut John Glenn into Earth’s orbit in 1962. Responsible for the cast’s costume des