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57 quotes by Colleen Atwood

Colleen Atwood (born September 25, 1948) is an American costume designer. Atwood has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design eleven times, winning three times; for the films Chicago in 2002, Memoirs of a Geisha in 2005, and Alice in Wonderland in 2010. Atwood has collaborated several times with directors Tim Burton, Rob Marshall and Jonathan Demme.
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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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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.

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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.

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I always loved clothes, just not clothes that were appropriate to the place I grew up in.

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

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

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

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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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