I-D Vice: ‘sorry to bother you’ is an afro-punk fashion masterpiece

Costume designer Deirdra Elizabeth Govan injects political history — and giant MURDER earrings — into looks for a late capitalist dystopia.

Boots Riley’s outrageous debut feature is everything you might expect from the rapper who’s spent years skewering political and social issues as frontman of The Coup, a “goddamn band from muthafuckin Oakland, CA,” according to the collective’s Twitter account. Sorry to Bother You is set in an Oakland future not far from now, where black characters speak in “white voice” to telemarket slave labor for a nefarious CEO (Armie Hammer) who dresses like Julian Assange on Ayahuasca.