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Costume Designer Colleen Atwood Took Unlikely Path To Hollywood Royalty¹

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Costume designer Colleen Atwood has designed everything from Hannibal Lecter's mask in "The Silence Of The Lambs" to the sci-fi Victorian look of "Edward Scissorhands." She's been nominated for 11 Oscars and has won three. Her newest credit is "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar³ Children." It opens today. NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports the designer took an unlikely path to become one of Hollywood's most in-demand talents.

ELIZABETH BLAIR, BYLINE⁴: Colleen Atwood has dressed just about every kind of character from just about every era, whether it's the Middle Ages for "Into The Woods..."

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "INTO THE WOODS")

JAMES CORDEN: (As Baker) Tell me, where did you get that beautiful cape⁵?

BLAIR: ...The Civil War for "Little Women..."

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "LITTLE WOMEN")

UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: (As character) Oh, Meg, I do like that color on you.

BLAIR: ...Or the 1920s for "Chicago."

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "CHICAGO")

CATHERINE ZETA-JONES: (As Velma Kelly, singing) I'm going to rouge⁶ my knees and roll my stockings down.

BLAIR: Among costume designers, like Salvador Perez, Colleen Atwood is royalty.

SALVADOR PEREZ: I work at Universal, and there is a display of some of her costumes by the elevator. So every single day I get to walk by and see her costumes from "The Huntsman." And every day that I look at those customs, I see a different detail that I didn't notice before. And there's so many nuances to her costumes that, you know, how her brain works fascinates me.

COLLEEN ATWOOD: I'm a hard worker.

BLAIR: Colleen Atwood's hard work involves studying what might have been in a movie character's closet and searching for the right materials. For years, one of her go-to places has been B&J Fabrics⁸ in New York's Garment District.

ATWOOD: As a young designer, I never had enough money to buy the fabric⁷ that they had, but they were always very kind to me and helped me find things that I could buy.

BLAIR: B&J Fabrics is on the second floor of an office building. Bolts of fabric of every color and texture⁹ are stacked almost up to the ceiling. Colleen Atwood's next movie, her twelfth with Tim Burton, is about a circus, set around 1919. For the trapeze act, she sits through a rack of delicate, lacy samples on hangers¹⁰, embellished¹¹ with feathers and rhinestones¹².

ATWOOD: This is great with the chenad (ph) and the embroidery¹³ on it - instant glamour¹⁴, instant showbiz.

BLAIR: She settles on two - a black piece with strands¹⁵ of shiny, black beads¹⁶ and a silver piece, embroidered¹⁷ with turquoise¹⁸ beads.

ATWOOD: Yeah, could I get sample yard of each of these?

BLAIR: Colleen Atwood grew up in Quincy, Wash., a small town in farm country. She says she was always encouraged to pursue her artistic¹⁹ side. Both of her grandmothers were also creative.

ATWOOD: One of them was more from a little bit wealthier background and had tremendous style and was an amazing gardener and kind of lifestyle artist. And my other grandmother was really a hardscrabble Irish grandma who taught me how to sew and make things work. And I think the combination of kind of a visual sense and a practicality have a lot to do with who I am today.

BLAIR: Something else that shaped Atwood's career - she got pregnant when she was 17. She didn't graduate from high school with her class. To help support her baby and her husband, who was in college, she says she worked at a French fry factory.

ATWOOD: I was cutting, like, the black spots out of potatoes in rubber gloves on swing shift. So that was a mind-blow for me at age 18 to think this is - this is it, you know, because, for a lot of people I was standing²⁰ next to, this was it.

BLAIR: But then, she says, she got a scholarship to go to an art school in Seattle, moved to New York, worked in TV wardrobe departments and, in 1984, landed her first solo credit as costume designer for the movie "Firstborn." It wasn't a hit, but pretty quickly, Atwood was designing costumes for Michelle Pfeiffer in "Married To The Mob" and Natasha Richardson in "The Handmaid's Tale." Her latest movie, the fantasy-horror love story "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children."

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN")

EVA GREEN: (As Miss Alma LeFay Peregrine) I'm a type of peculiar called an Ymbryne.

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Yeah, you turn into a bird.

GREEN: (As Miss Alma LeFay Peregrine) Well, I do, yes, but that's not very useful.

BLAIR: Miss Peregrine's dress is a deep, vibrant²¹ blue.

ATWOOD: It was, like, a hard blue to find, I have to say, because I was looking for a blue that didn't photograph black. Even though, today, I read a review of it, and it described it as her black dress, and I was like, uh.

BLAIR: But Atwood is not precious about her work, even though she's known for sweating the details.

ATWOOD: I was around people that worked in factories, people that worked in restaurants, people that worked in stores. I was around fashion snobs²². I was around a lot of different people. And I think, in my work, when I get a job and somebody is described as a waitress and a mother, I kind of know what their life was really like and what they really looked like and how they lived. And I think it helps me in my work.

BLAIR: Designing the costume, says Colleen Atwood, is all about understanding the character. Elizabeth Blair, NPR News.

1 royalty   

n.皇家，皇族

参考例句：

• She claims to be descended from royalty.她声称她是皇室后裔。
• I waited on tables，and even catered to royalty at the Royal Albert Hall.我做过服务生， 甚至在皇家阿伯特大厅侍奉过皇室的人。

2 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

3 peculiar   

adj.古怪的，异常的；特殊的，特有的

参考例句：

• He walks in a peculiar fashion.他走路的样子很奇特。
• He looked at me with a very peculiar expression.他用一种很奇怪的表情看着我。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 cape   

n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风

参考例句：

• I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
• She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。

6 rouge   

n.胭脂，口红唇膏；v.(在…上)擦口红

参考例句：

• Women put rouge on their cheeks to make their faces pretty.女人往面颊上涂胭脂，使脸更漂亮。
• She didn't need any powder or lip rouge to make her pretty.她天生漂亮，不需要任何脂粉唇膏打扮自己。

7 fabric   

n.织物，织品，布；构造，结构，组织

参考例句：

• The fabric will spot easily.这种织品很容易玷污。
• I don't like the pattern on the fabric.我不喜欢那块布料上的图案。

8 fabrics   

织物( fabric的名词复数 )； 布； 构造； （建筑物的）结构（如墙、地面、屋顶）：质地

参考例句：

• cotton fabrics and synthetics 棉织物与合成织物
• The fabrics are merchandised through a network of dealers. 通过经销网点销售纺织品。

9 texture   

n.(织物)质地；(材料)构造；结构；肌理

参考例句：

• We could feel the smooth texture of silk.我们能感觉出丝绸的光滑质地。
• Her skin has a fine texture.她的皮肤细腻。

10 hangers   

n.衣架( hanger的名词复数 )；挂耳

参考例句：

• The singer was surrounded by the usual crowd of lackeys and hangers on. 那个歌手让那帮总是溜须拍马、前呼後拥的人给围住了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I want to put some of my good hangers in Grandpa's closet. 我想在爷爷的衣橱放几个好的衣架。 来自辞典例句

11 embellished   

v.美化( embellish的过去式和过去分词 )；装饰；修饰；润色

参考例句：

• The door of the old church was embellished with decorations. 老教堂的门是用雕饰美化的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The stern was embellished with carvings in red and blue. 船尾饰有红色和蓝色的雕刻图案。 来自辞典例句

12 rhinestones   

n.莱茵石，人造钻石( rhinestone的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• It's got rhinestones and zebra stripes on it. 上面有人造钻石，还是斑马条的。 来自电影对白
• The final touch was a single white glove, studded with rhinestones. 最触动人的是一只白色手套，上面点缀着人造钻石。 来自互联网

13 embroidery   

n.绣花，刺绣；绣制品

参考例句：

• This exquisite embroidery won people's great admiration.这件精美的绣品，使人惊叹不已。
• This is Jane's first attempt at embroidery.这是简第一次试着绣花。

14 glamour   

n.魔力，魅力；vt.迷住

参考例句：

• Foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.到国外旅行对她已失去吸引力了。
• The moonlight cast a glamour over the scene.月光给景色增添了魅力。

15 strands   

n.（线、绳、金属线、毛发等的）股( strand的名词复数 )；缕；海洋、湖或河的)岸；（观点、计划、故事等的）部份v.使滞留，使搁浅( strand的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Twist a length of rope from strands of hemp. 用几股麻搓成了一段绳子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She laced strands into a braid. 她把几股线编织成一根穗带。 来自《简明英汉词典》

16 beads   

n.（空心）小珠子( bead的名词复数 )；水珠；珠子项链

参考例句：

• a necklace of wooden beads 一条木珠项链
• Beads of perspiration stood out on his forehead. 他的前额上挂着汗珠。

17 embroidered   

adj．绣花的

参考例句：

• She embroidered flowers on the cushion covers. 她在这些靠垫套上绣了花。
• She embroidered flowers on the front of the dress. 她在连衣裙的正面绣花。

18 turquoise   

n.绿宝石；adj.蓝绿色的

参考例句：

• She wore a string of turquoise round her neck.她脖子上戴着一串绿宝石。
• The women have elaborate necklaces of turquoise.那些女人戴着由绿松石制成的精美项链。

19 artistic   

adj.艺术(家)的，美术(家)的；善于艺术创作的

参考例句：

• The picture on this screen is a good artistic work.这屏风上的画是件很好的艺术品。
• These artistic handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.外国朋友很喜欢这些美术工艺品。

20 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

21 vibrant   

adj.震颤的，响亮的，充满活力的，精力充沛的，(色彩)鲜明的

参考例句：

• He always uses vibrant colours in his paintings. 他在画中总是使用鲜明的色彩。
• She gave a vibrant performance in the leading role in the school play.她在学校表演中生气盎然地扮演了主角。

22 snobs   

（谄上傲下的）势利小人( snob的名词复数 )； 自高自大者，自命不凡者

参考例句：

• She dislikes snobs intensely. 她极其厌恶势利小人。
• Most of the people who worshipped her, who read every tidbit about her in the gossip press and hung up pictures of her in their rooms, were not social snobs. 崇敬她大多数的人不会放过每一篇报导她的八卦新闻，甚至在他们的房间中悬挂黛妃的画像，这些人并非都是傲慢成性。