Colleen Atwood

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. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#catherine #designing #directed #frailty #helped

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. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#good #had #i #knew #knowledgeable

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. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#action #challenge #clothes #could #gigantic

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#even #fairy-tale #had #hollow #lot

Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#four #go #into #kimonos #layers

The costumes had to serve the choreography. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#costumes #had #serve

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. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#been #designs #eyes #filtered #gone