- Colleen Atwood was born on September 25, 1948 in Ellensburg, Washington, USA. She is a costume designer, known for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Chicago (2002) and Memoirs of a Geisha (2005).
- ChildrenTracey AtwoodCharlotte Atwood
- Frequently works with Tim Burton and Rob Marshall.
- She was a costume designer at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey.
- Daughters Tracey (born 1987) and Charlotte (born 1989).
- The Handmaid's Tale (1990), for which she designed the costumes, is based on a book by another Atwood (Margaret).
- Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.
- 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.
- (on devising the wardrobe for 'Snow White and the Huntsman') Every costume had a feeling of not quite what it seems. In a way, these dresses were like torture devices for Ravenna. I love that because I feel like Ravenna was, in a way, more tortuous toward herself than to the people she was killing.
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