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Colleen Atwood

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."

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Donna Grant

"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"

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Donna Grant

"A blond in a red dress can do without introductions - but not without a bodyguard."

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Donna Grant

"Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945."

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Donna Grant

"If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?"

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Donna Grant

"Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."

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Donna Grant

"I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?"

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Donna Grant

"Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man."

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Donna Grant

"I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show."

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Donna Grant

"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."

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Colleen Atwood
"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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Colleen Atwood
"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."

People

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Colleen Atwood
"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."

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Colleen Atwood
"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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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."

Beauty

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Colleen Atwood
"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."

Film

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Colleen Atwood
"I've always loved movies, art and clothes."

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Colleen Atwood
"In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them."

Life

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

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Colleen Atwood
"In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need."

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