Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood is an American costume designer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDesigner
CountryUnited States of America
determines serves
The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story.
american-designer beauty designing directed
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.
chris men
It actually is as fun to make men's costumes, especially if they are as good-looking as Chris Hemsworth.
design prefer
My own style is pretty classic; I much prefer to design for others.
candy home insane mind negative nice number surrounded treat work
My work space is so visually crammed. It's like an insane candy store. The number of textiles I'm surrounded with is mind boggling. It's a treat to come home to a nice negative space.
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.
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.
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.