Colleen Atwood famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Reality #Chicago #Fairy Tale
In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today,
-- Colleen Atwood

#Hero #Past #Design
I like the architecture of lingerie.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Lingerie #Architecture
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.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Thinking #People #Mind
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.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Inspiration #Chicago #Use
Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Sleep #Action #Fairy Tale
Every project starts with a story.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Stories #Projects
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

#Clothes #People #Challenges
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

#Team #Apes #Online
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.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Light #Color #Dresses
I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Moving #Work Out #Leotards
I've always loved movies, art and clothes.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Art #Clothes
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.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Class #Style #Trying
Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Character #First Impression #Doe
The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Moving #Reality #People
As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Beautiful #Clothes #People
In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Real #People #Kimonos
Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.
-- Colleen Atwood

#Art #Book #Inspiration

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