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Atwood says that her artistic side was always nurtured, particularly by her two grandmothers. Above are Atwood’s sketches for characters from the Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

Atwood looked long and hard for the deep blue fabric in Miss Peregrine’s dress. “I was looking for a blue that didn’t photograph black,” she says.

Atwood designed the costumes for the 2012 film Snow White and the Huntsman as well as the 2016 The Huntsman: Winter’s War

This is Atwood’s sketch for Emma, a character from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

Olive (Lauren McCrostie), from left, Bronwyn (Pixie Davies), Millard (Cameron King), the twins (Thomas and Joseph Odwell) and Emma (Ella Purnell) are some of the “Peculiars”

From Hannibal Lecter’s mask to Edward Scissorhands’, well, scissor hands, Oscar-winning costumer Colleen Atwood has pretty much designed it all.

Working steadily since the 1980s, she’s dressed characters from the past and the future — the Middle Ages for Into the Woods, the Civil War for Little Women all the way to Gattaca and the 2001 Planet of the Apes. Her latest movie, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, is her eleventh with Tim Burton. It travels back in time to Wales during World War II.

Costume designer Salvador Perez passes Atwood’s costumes — on display at Universal, where he works — every day. “I get to walk by and see her costumes from The Huntsman,” he says, “and every day that I look at those costumes I see a different detail that I didn’t notice before. There are so many nuances to her costumes. How her brain works fascinates me.”

Colleen Atwood: To Design The Costume, Understand The Character

Images: Warren Holder/20th Century (2), Jay Maidment/Twentieth Century Fox (2), Fox Giles Keyte/Universal

Source: NPR