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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. "
Colleen Atwood
Dress
Picture
Color
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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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" 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. "
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" I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in. "
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" 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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Great
" Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are. "
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Open
You
" 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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Know
Kind
" Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me. "
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Street
Process
" 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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People
World
" For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span. "
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Think
Beautiful
Fashion
" 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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Production
Inspiration
Chicago
" In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need. "
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Need
Dancers
Chicago
" 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 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 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
" 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
" 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 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. "
Colleen Atwood
People
Change
Day
" I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out. "
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Inside
Loved
Beautiful
" 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. "
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Group
New
People
" 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
" It's true that I'm not cozy. I'm more reserved. "
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Cozy
True
Reserved
" Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses. "
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Fashion
Research
Design
" As for futuristic costumes, I loved doing 'Gattaca' because I'm a minimalist at heart, and it's a very minimal film. Plus, with Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke and Jude Law, how could you go wrong? "
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You
Doing
Law
" 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
" I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about. "
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My Own
Think
Own
" I always loved clothes, just not clothes that were appropriate to the place I grew up in. "
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Always
Up
Place
" In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them. "
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Will
Real
Lot
" 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. "
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Trying
Suit
Class
" I like the architecture of lingerie. "
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Lingerie
Like
Architecture