Carlos Nazario and Natasha Lyonne Celeste Sloman; Courtesy of Carlos Nazario Natasha Lyonne has booked a stylish collaborator for her feature film project Bambo.
Fashion guru Carlos Nazario, a notable name from that world who currently serves as contributing style director at Vogue under editor Chloé Malle, will make his debut as a costume designer on the film. Lyonne is directing Bambo from a script she wrote. It is set in the 1980s and follows a Brooklyn-born boxing-promoter father as he tries and fails to become the next Don King, and “takes his kid daughter along for the hurly burly ride of tax evasion, cocaine, race cars, lost dreams and heartbreak.” As previously reported, Joey King is in talks for the lead role to play the daughter.
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Lyonne is producing through her Animal Pictures alongside Craig Mazin for Word Games, Jason Weinberg and Sarah Sarandos. Filming is expected to start this summer.
Nazario is well known as an influential image maker in the fashion world having worked across red carpets and major media styling huge stars like Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, Kendrick Lamar, Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, Miley Cyrus, Solange, Zoe Kravitz, Naomi Campbell and more. When he returned to Vogue under the helm of Malle, he made an early mark styling Rosalía for the cover, calling it “truly full circle.” He styled the most recent cover with Doja Cat in a striking menswear look.
Nazario known as the first Black stylist to style a cover for American Vogue. He also styled U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for the cover of Vanity Fair in a look by a Black designer from her district.
He segued to his current gig at Vogue after serving as style director at large of Harper’s Bazaar, and he signed off in January with a final shoot styling Kaia Gerber. The Queens, New York native has worked with some of the world’s top fashion photographers and editors while styling covers of Italian Vogue, The New York Times style magazine T, i-D, M Le Monde, L’uomo Vogue and W. His resume includes stints at Marc Jacobs, W, Katie Grand’s Love and a tenure as fashion director at Hood by Air.
Bambo is the second feature film project being shepherded by Lyonne. Last year, Lyonne announced that she would be making her feature debut with the AI film Uncanny Valley. Produced by Asteria Film Co., the hybrid AI studio Lyonne co-founded with Bryn Mooser, Uncanny Valley will be set in the world of immersive video games and will blend live-action and game elements while centering on a teenage girl who becomes unmoored by a hugely popular AR video game in a parallel present. Lyonne and Brit Marling co-writing the feature with futurist and veteran tech executive Jaron Lanier.
On deck for Lyonne in 2026 are roles in HBO’s Euphoria, Taika Waititi’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun and the Netflix comedy Roommates for Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions. She is attached to star in and produce the horror comedy Basketful of Heads. The Golden Globe nominated Poker Face star and producer is also teaming with Matt Berry to co-create and star in Sky’s retro comedy Force & Majeure.
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