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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. "
Colleen Atwood
First Impression
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" I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out. "
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" The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story. "
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Story
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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. "
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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. "
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" I'd say probably the most expensive costumes I've ever made were the costumes in 'The Planet of the Apes,' because of the research and development that went into them and the amount of layers. "
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" The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me. "
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Ideas
Great
" 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. "
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Diversity
Detail
Love
" Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it. "
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Five
Long
Some
" I can create clothes for so many different time periods. I've always tried to avoid being pigeonholed. Plus, everything I learn about design and costume from one movie somehow works its way into something else. "
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Create
Time
Learn
" 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. "
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Good
Looking
Street
" The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired. "
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Today
Eyes
Gone
" I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for. "
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Back
Design
Fashion
" 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. "
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Moment
Know
Kind
" Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me. "
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Art
Street
Process
" I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most. "
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Finding
Think
Looking
" I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it's important how clothing looks, but it's equally important how it feels on your skin. "
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Feel
Skin
Important
" I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a child when I was in high school, so I kind of had that work phase in my life. "
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School
Work
Kind
" The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter. "
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Never
Costume
Great
" I have watched 'Project Runway,' but I'm not a devout watcher of it. But I think it's a great show, what I've seen of it, and I think Tim Gunn is a very positive, amazing guy. "
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Think
Amazing
Great
" I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory! "
Colleen Atwood
Photograph
Color
Choose
" I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit. "
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You
Character
Design
" I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards. "
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Work
Without
Something
" It actually is as fun to make men's costumes, especially if they are as good-looking as Chris Hemsworth. "
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Men
Costumes
Good-Looking
" I like the architecture of lingerie. "
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Lingerie
Like
Architecture
" I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly. "
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World
Looking
Me
" I get more distracted by hair or a really bad wig than I do costumes any day of the week. "
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Bad
Hair
More
" I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing. "
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Loved
Small
Parents
" I always loved clothes, just not clothes that were appropriate to the place I grew up in. "
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Always
Up
Place
" It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in 'Alice in Wonderland' or a doll with grandma's dress, but then they also let me know they're bummed I didn't do any of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies. "
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Dress
Fun
Great
" 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. "
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