Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood is an American costume designer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDesigner
CountryUnited States of America
thinking clothes design
I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.
stuff done standing-out
I love Johnny (Depp). A lot of the stuff I've done for him stands out for me just because of the relationship and who he is.
design floating lasts
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.
age assistants use
I have assistants that use the internet a lot more than I do. I use the internet for photo research, but for me personally, probably just because of my age, I'm not that mechanically inclined.
reality chicago fairy-tale
Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.
real people kimonos
In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.
class style trying
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.
art clothes
I've always loved movies, art and clothes.
moving work-out leotards
I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.
dream looks stories
Sometimes you have dreams about the day or something like that. But, for the story, it's just present and what you have left ahead of you to do and how things look that day that you reflect on. It's just there until you're done.
team apes online
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.
clothes people challenges
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.
stories projects
Every project starts with a story.
fun thinking want
I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they want to do with them.