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L.A. when a constant flow of movie costume exhibits continue to grace local cinemas to garner support and enthusiasm for award winners and potential nominees, like with this fab costume exhibit for Hidden Figures. The biopic is based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly and tells the true story of the black women working at NASA providing essential mathematical data that helped with astronaut John Glenn\'s Project Mercury space mission in 1962.

Original film costumes from Hidden Figures

Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson and Janelle Monáe and designed by Renee Ehrlich Kalfus for the movie were photographed on display at ArcLight Hollywood cinema on January 14, 2017.

Taraji P. Henson plays \'Katherine Johnson\', a mathematical genius and widowed mother of three who works in the segregated West Area Computers division with her female colleagues at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

Katherine Johnson costume worn by Taraji P. Henson

\'computer\', she becomes the first African-American woman on the NASA team trying to work out the mathematical equations and trajectories to help the Americans beat the Russians into space, whilst battling against prejudice and sexism from her co-workers.

Dorothy Vaughan costume worn by Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer plays \'Dorothy Vaughan\', an informal supervisor of the Computers division, who feels she should be promoted, paid equally for her work and not discriminated against for the colour of her skin. She also realises that with the installation of a massive IBM computer that technology will soon change the way her team of female \'computers\' work, making them obsolete if they don\'t learn new skills, like FORTRAN how to use the IBM machine.

Mary Jackson costume worn by Janelle Monáe

Janelle Monáe stars as aspiring engineer \'Mary Jackson\', who challenges state laws and fights the system of all-white education to attend night classes to get her engineering degree.

If you like these outfits and are interested in films about the

Civil Rights movement and racial inequality, you may also want to check out these movie costumes from Selma and these Loving film costumes on display.

U.S. politics, there\'s never been a better time for a historical film about female and racial empowerment and equality, and this was one of my favourite films of 2016 (I saw it on New Year\'s Eve).

Learn more about the true story: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

Labels: ArcLight Hollywood, Drama, Hidden Figures, Historical, Movie Costumes

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