Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood is an American costume designer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDesigner
CountryUnited States of America
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I've been lucky in the things I've got to work on. I've been able to keep it fresh, always getting to do different kinds of things.
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Sometimes a contemporary film like Silence of the Lambs is difficult. To make it look real but interesting is always a challenge.
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While researching design, I was inspired globally, from Peru to Turkey to Africa to Japan-from the 5th century through to today.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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I really like the original Apes costumes. The colors were great, and the use of heavy materials was something that influenced me for this film.
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The first Chicago was definitely a product of its time, and Chicago the musical is definitely a contemporary look at another time.
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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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In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.
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What we wanted to create for the film was a sensual feeling using the traditional Japanese kimono as our key starting point. We took the creation of the kimono and changed it to make it something that the modern, Western audience would relate to.
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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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I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing.