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" 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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" 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. "

" When I do period work, I really like to read about the period as much as I like to look at pictures because sometimes the written word is much better at conveying what their lives were really like and how much they had and where their clothes came from. Because, a lot of time, people dressed in their Sunday best to pose for a picture. "

" Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were. "

" I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design. "

" One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I get more distracted by hair or a really bad wig than I do costumes any day of the week. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's fun conjuring what people will be wearing in the future. We exist in this world today, and yet there are people walking around who still look like they're in the '60s. "

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

" I like the architecture of lingerie. "

" I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out. "

" 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. "

" One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies. We're much bigger than what people were in older times. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've always loved movies, art and clothes. "

" It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to fashion in a way that might be new and different. "

" The costumes had to serve the choreography. "

" 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. "

" It's true that I'm not cozy. I'm more reserved. "

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

" 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. "

" I think that sometimes people don't understand that a costume that has to be worn every day and doesn't change the whole movie becomes iconic. It's very important because it requires a different design process, since you have to make something that people aren't going to get tired of looking at. "