Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood is an American costume designer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDesigner
CountryUnited States of America
diversity different stories
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.
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.
lingerie architecture
I like the architecture of lingerie.
hero past design
In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today,
sleep fairy-tale action
Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.
stories projects
Every project starts with a story.
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.
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.
budgets
Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.
moving work-out leotards
I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.
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.
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.
fashion trends way
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.
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.