'I was looking for a blue that didn't photograph black,' she says.īut Atwood got a scholarship to attend Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Instant showbiz,' she says.Ītwood looked long and hard for the deep blue fabric in Miss Peregrine's dress. The challenge with this is to make it look old but make it work like what they're used to working in, which is stretch, stretch and more stretch.'Ītwood settles on two samples: a black piece with strands of shiny black beads, and a silver piece embroidered with turquoise beads.

'Back then, they didn't have so many stretch fabrics,' she says. So she's looking for materials that will convey the period but also allow easy movement for today's acrobats. Her next movie is about a circus, set around 1920. Today, in its vast space on the second floor of an office building, bolts of fabric of every color and texture are stacked up to the ceiling.Ītwood heads straight for a rack of delicate, lacy samples embellished with feathers and rhinestones.

You can see how that costume turned out in the photo below.ī&J Fabrics is a family run business founded in 1940. This is Atwood's sketch for Emma, a character from Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

In preparation for a film, she studies what might have been in a character's closet and searches for the right materials. How her brain works fascinates me.'Ītwood is known for costumes that are rich in detail - which she adds even when she knows those embellishments might not be visible to audiences. There are so many nuances to her costumes. '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. It travels back in time to Wales during World War II.Ĭostume designer Salvador Perez passes Atwood's costumes - on display at Universal, where he works - every day. Her latest movie, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, is her eleventh with Tim Burton. 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. Atwood designed the costumes for the 2012 film Snow White and the Huntsman as well as the 2016 The Huntsman: Winter's War (above), which stars Emily Blunt as Queen Freya (left) and Charlize Theron as Queen Ravenna.

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