Quotes from Colleen Atwood

I worked in fashion, but I worked more in the sales side of fashion than in design. I was an assistant buyer for a department store back in the '70s and the early years of Saint Laurent. And I used to have a lot of private clients that I bought for.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

I've always loved movies, art and clothes.

I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it's important how clothing looks, but it's equally important how it feels on your skin.

I always loved clothes, just not clothes that were appropriate to the place I grew up in.

I like the architecture of lingerie.

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.

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.

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.

I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.