Furiosa’s makeup and costume design in Mad Max: Fury Road reflect her role as a bridge between the man’s world and the woman’s world.
Author: Brie Paris
Writer and MFA student at Western Connecticut State University studying dystopian science fiction. Editor-in-Chief of Poor Yorick Literary Journal.

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