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Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.

Colleen Atwood

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Colleen Atwood
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: September 25
Costume Designer
Designer
Fashion Designer
Yakima
Washington
Smaller
Budgets
Getting
Keep
Really
Good

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Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.
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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'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.
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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 continually looking for the proper materials.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If I'm doing something contemporary, for sure I'm very aware of what's going on. Personally, I like fashion trends, but when I'm doing a movie, it doesn't affect what I do particularly at all. I don't relate to it in that way.
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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.
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I always carry pictures of my children and grandchildren, which is what makes it all worthwhile. It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in Alice in Wonderland or a doll with grandma's dress.
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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.
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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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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.
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I've always loved movies, art and clothes.
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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.
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I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.
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