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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. "
Colleen Atwood
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" 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. "
Colleen Atwood
Picture
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Time
" 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. "
Colleen Atwood
Think
People
Design
" 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. "
Colleen Atwood
Layers
Say
Research
" Costume, hair and makeup can tell you instantly, or at least give you a larger perception of who a character is. It's the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth, so it really does establish who they are. "
Colleen Atwood
Makeup
You
Perception
" 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. "
Colleen Atwood
Death
Happens
Talk
" 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. "
Colleen Atwood
Good
Looking
Street
" 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. "
Colleen Atwood
Moment
Know
Kind
" 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
" 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. "
Colleen Atwood
Think
Beautiful
Fashion
" I get more distracted by hair or a really bad wig than I do costumes any day of the week. "
Colleen Atwood
Bad
Hair
More
" I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out. "
Colleen Atwood
Inside
Loved
Beautiful
" 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. "
Colleen Atwood
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. "
Colleen Atwood
Create
Time
Learn
" In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need. "
Colleen Atwood
Need
Dancers
Chicago
" 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. "
Colleen Atwood
Beautiful
Problems
People
" I always loved clothes, just not clothes that were appropriate to the place I grew up in. "
Colleen Atwood
Always
Up
Place
" I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory! "
Colleen Atwood
Photograph
Color
Choose
" My work space is so visually crammed. It's like an insane candy store. The number of textiles I'm surrounded with is mind boggling. It's a treat to come home to a nice negative space. "
Colleen Atwood
Treat
Work
Negative
" 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. "
Colleen Atwood
Trying
Suit
Class
" It actually is as fun to make men's costumes, especially if they are as good-looking as Chris Hemsworth. "
Colleen Atwood
Men
Costumes
Good-Looking
" 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
" 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. "
Colleen Atwood
Challenges
Different
People
" I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in. "
Colleen Atwood
I Can
Create
People
" I like the architecture of lingerie. "
Colleen Atwood
Lingerie
Like
Architecture
" 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. "
Colleen Atwood
You
Character
Design
" 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
Open
You
" 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. "
Colleen Atwood
Beautiful
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. "
Colleen Atwood
Diversity
Detail
Love
" Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. "
Colleen Atwood
Lot
Hollow
Even
" I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards. "
Colleen Atwood
Work
Without
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