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Colleen Atwood

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Costume designer

Colleen Atwood is an internationally renowned costume designer, born on September 25, 1948. She is known for her unique artistic style and meticulous attention to detail, creating unforgettable costume designs for numerous films.

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“I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.”

People Thinking Mind I Can Red Uniforms Accents Costumes Silhouettes Engraved Make Me Smile Geisha Flaunting Kimonos

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“I like the architecture of lingerie.”

Architecture Lingerie

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“In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.”

Today Action Wanted Past Streets Style Design Hero Embrace Thrust Action Heroes Supergirl

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“Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.”

People Art Book Inspiration Process Streets Interiors

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“If I'm doing something contemporary, for sure I'm very aware of what's going on. Personally, I like fashion trends, but when I'm doing a movie, it doesn't affect what I do particularly at all. I don't relate to it in that way.”

Ifs Way Fashion Contemporary Relate Trends Fashion Trends

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“I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.”

Thinking My Own Design Clothes

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“I love Johnny (Depp). A lot of the stuff I've done for him stands out for me just because of the relationship and who he is.”

Done Stuff Standing Out

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“I always have a moment when I know I'm designing the last costume that gets made for a movie and it's always been floating up there but it's kind of the last one. That's always probably the hardest one for me.”

Knows Kind Made Moments Lasts Design Hardest Costumes Floating One For Me

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“I have assistants that use the internet a lot more than I do. I use the internet for photo research, but for me personally, probably just because of my age, I'm not that mechanically inclined.”

Use Age Internet Research Assistants

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“Sometimes you have dreams about the day or something like that. But, for the story, it's just present and what you have left ahead of you to do and how things look that day that you reflect on. It's just there until you're done.”

Looks Sometimes Done Stories Dream Left

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“I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they want to do with them.”

Thinking Want Different Fun Seeing Directors Fairytale

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“Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.”

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“Be able to take any job that gives you experience on a film. Don't just think that you have to be in one department or the other, because through working on one and seeing what other people do in the movie makes you realize what your role is if you become a costume designer.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Able Jobs Film Realizing Roles Seeing Designer Department Costumes

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“I always carry pictures of my children and grandchildren, which is what makes it all worthwhile. It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in Alice in Wonderland or a doll with grandma's dress.”

Children Fun Dresses My Children Worthwhile Grandchildren Costumes Dolls Grandma Wonderland Children And Grandchildren Grandkids

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“Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.”

Different Stories Might Diversity And Love Embrace Details

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“The whole switch from film to digital has changed some of the ways I use color and the juxtaposition of light and dark. It's getting better with digital, the separation's gotten better, but I still feel like it's really flatter than film, so I do a lot of screening and subtle textural printing and painting on clothes for film to get it not to look flat.”

Way Feels Looks Stills Whole Use Light Film Dark Changed Color Painting Clothes Separation Get Better Subtle Digital Flats Printing Screening Light And Dark Juxtaposition

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“Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.”

Persons Made Reality Tales Fairy Chicago Fairy Tale

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“In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.”

People Made Real Levels Real Life Being Real Kimonos

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“As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.”

People Looks Kind Problem Beautiful Clothes Solve All Kinds Designer Sunglasses

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“The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.”

People World Stories Reality Moving Actors Teach Design Cameras Rewards Separation Working It

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“Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.”

Firsts Doe Character Mouths Impression Costumes First Impression

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“Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.”

Trying Different Body Class Groups Style Dresses Species Suits Definite Different Styles

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“I've always loved movies, art and clothes.”

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“I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.”

Moving Work Out Spray Leotards

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“If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story.”

Ifs Want Needs Feels Littles Sometimes Helping Stories Light Bits Color Little Bit Dresses Warm Pushing

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“On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.”

Persons Team Streets Planets Materials Source Online Apes Knowledgeable

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“Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.”

People Action Challenges Planets Clothes Apes Stuntman

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“Every project starts with a story.”

Stories Projects

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“Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.”

Action Sleep Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Hollow Sleepy

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“I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.”

Use Inspiration Stage Currents Productions Chicago

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About the Author

Born: September 25, 1948
Known for: Costume designer
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