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nts the latest installment of its philanthropic film series Just Like You, featuring Academy Award-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood. “My creativity has been able to be unleashed because of a certain amount of life experience I’ve had, and a certain amount of lack of fear,” says Atwood in her Just Like You video.
Atwood has won three OSCAR Academy Awards for Best Costume design for Chicago (2002), Memoirs of a Geisha (2006) and Alice in Wonderland (2010), and three BAFTAs for Best Costume Design for Sleepy Hollow (1999), Memoirs of a Geisha (2006) and Alice in Wonderland (2010). In total she has been nominated for an OSCAR ten times, including at this year for Snow White and The Hunstman, and nine times for a BAFTA, including this year for Snow White and The Huntsman. She has collaborated multiple times with directors Tim Burton, Rob Marshall and Jonathan Demme.
From her youth in Washington state and becoming a mother at 17 to her first wardrobe job in New York City and move to Los Angeles, Colleen’s ability to adapt has always been one of her strengths. “From one experience something ultimately ends up applying in another place,” Atwood narrates while she sketches.
Atwood, who has designed costumes for more than 50 films, finds inspiration in organic ways. “I’m a dreamer,” she says, “so I sort of like to drift into things by chance and find out about them, and hear about them, and sort of not be obsessively always looking for the latest thing, but just to find things. To dream is a part of life.”
In seeking the perfect designs for her costumes, Atwood often finds inspiration in other countries—Japan, China, Turkey and France, among others. “Being a citizen of the world is the most important element of the creative process,” says Atwood in the video. “Because you see the art, you see the life, you see people that are around you that you’re living with in the world.”
Colleen has also designed a Citizens of Humanity tee, with all benefits going to her chosen charity the Art of Elysium - a non-profit organization that is dedicated to enriching the lives of critically ill children. The tee is priced at £51 ($78) and available to buy from citizensofhumanity.com/justlikeyou.
Colleen Atwood: Just Like You from Citizens of Humanity on Vimeo.
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