Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood is an American costume designer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDesigner
CountryUnited States of America
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In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.
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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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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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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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The first Chicago was definitely a product of its time, and Chicago the musical is definitely a contemporary look at another time.
american-designer based designs filtered gone movement musical quite strictly
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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I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a child when I was in high school, so I kind of had that work phase in my life.
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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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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.