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My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world. -- Gillian Armstrong
I love Pinterest! Pinterest is absolutely phenomenal when you're trying to come up with a costume design. -- Ashley Wagner
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer. -- Caio Fonseca
I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time. -- Clemence Poesy
I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars' costume designer, Mandi Line. -- Lucy Hale
Ngila Dixon is such an incredible costume designer. She's such a cool, stylish woman. She has such an understanding of character. -- Blake Lively
I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars'' costume designer, Mandi Line. -- Lucy Hale
As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop. -- Patricia Norris
I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject. -- Meryl Streep
I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer. -- Georgina Chapman
The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter. -- Colleen Atwood
It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to fashion in a way that might be new and different. -- Colleen Atwood
One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work. -- Colleen Atwood
Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately. -- Edith Head
Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer. -- Spike Lee
Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in ways beyond just writing a check? They can see themselves as co-producers, not just bystanders. -- Chris Elam
Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius. -- Nina Arianda
I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model. -- Isabella Rossellini
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen he's become a different person. -- Edith Head
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person. -- Edith Head
I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing. -- Colleen Atwood
Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement. -- Azzedine Alaia
Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out. -- Katherine Waterston
Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses. -- Colleen Atwood
I can create clothes for so many different time periods. I've always tried to avoid being pigeonholed. Plus, everything I learn about design and costume from one movie somehow works its way into something else. -- Colleen Atwood
Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it. -- John Malkovich
I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff. -- Amy Lee
Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us. -- Katherine Dunham
When you're making a TV drama, the showrunner is God, and so however onerous and difficult and consuming that responsibility is, you're being treated with respect, so it changes your whole outlook to the production. You're being asked about costumes, set design, music, every aspect of the show. -- Michael Hirst
I think that sometimes people don't understand that a costume that has to be worn every day and doesn't change the whole movie becomes iconic. It's very important because it requires a different design process, since you have to make something that people aren't going to get tired of looking at. -- Colleen Atwood
I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence. -- Johnny Weir
It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design. -- Christian Siriano
I always loved Michelle Kwan's outfits. Most of them were designed by Vera Wang, and they're just so simple, but the fabric that they used and the way that it was sewn together look so elegant and rich. You could tell that time had been put into it. It wasn't just another spandex, stucco-covered costume. -- Ashley Wagner
A big part of the fun of working on Superman has been coming up with new characters and concepts to toss in, helping to design their costumes, things like that. And I spent ages coming up with the name 'Fortress of Solidarity,' so I want to get as much use out of it as I can! -- Chris Roberson
I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit. -- Colleen Atwood

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