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

Clothes Appropriate Always Were Up Just Grew Loved Place

My work space is so visually crammed. It's like an insane candy store. The number of textiles I'm surrounded with is mind boggling. It's a treat to come home to a nice negative space. Colleen Atwood

Work Home Treat Space Mind Negative Nice Mind-Boggling Insane Come Like Surrounded Crammed Candy Candy Store Store Number

My own style is pretty classic; I much prefer to design for others. Colleen Atwood

Style Own Design Others Classic Pretty My Own Prefer Much

I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit. Colleen Atwood

Character You Sense Design Final Once Wearing Costume Shape Take Ideas Well Fit Person Movement Movie Form Then Next Next Level Show Connection Actor Technical Technical Things Level Things

Elegance is elimination. Cristobal Balenciaga

Elegance Elimination

I've been lucky enough to meet a lot of fantastic people, from royalty to rock stars. I've also been known to be a bit of a daredevil, so I've tried to explore extreme travel and adventure - scuba-diving in an arctic glacier and camping in the Himalayas. Cynthia Rowley

Travel People Stars Enough Meet Extreme Bit Daredevil Tried Arctic Glacier Adventure Also Known Rock Rock Stars Been Lot Camping Fantastic Explore Lucky Royalty

I think cooking has the same creative process as designing, where you have the ingredients, you have the alchemy part of it, and you have the satisfaction of seeing your creation become a reality. Cynthia Rowley

You Creative Reality Cooking Creative Process Become Creation Think Seeing Part Same Where Process Ingredients Your Satisfaction Designing Alchemy

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint. Cynthia Rowley

Try Design More Look Conceptual Standpoint

I'm very sensitive to smells. Cynthia Rowley

Smells Very Sensitive

I wake up like I'm shot out of a cannon. Cynthia Rowley

Wake Up Out Like Wake Up Cannon Shot

I always like that sort of tomboy aesthetic. Cynthia Rowley

Like Sort Always Aesthetic Tomboy

I think that each season we, as an industry, evolve more and more in such a great way, and I'm really excited about it. We're able to put fashion into the hands of the consumer and eyes of the consumer, and I just think that there's no filter anymore; you just put it out there. There's an instant commentary. I think it's so interesting. Cynthia Rowley

Fashion Great You Eyes Think Filter Way Out Evolve Able About More More And More Consumer Instant Excited Put Great Way Industry Commentary Hands Just Anymore Interesting Really Each Season

That's my style - to mix a lot of print and pattern and put it all together. Cynthia Rowley

Together Style Put Print Mix Lot Pattern

I always think clothing is like a scrapbook: you remember all the good memories and the past times. Cynthia Rowley

Good You Memories Remember Past Think Like Always Times Clothing

There's always an excuse to celebrate someone you love. Cynthia Rowley

Love You Celebrate Someone Excuse Always

Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing. Dan Phillips

You Own Down Mosaic Glue Metric Up Any Going Just Landfill Then Your Choosing Floor Ton Gather

If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve. Dan Phillips

You People Dinner Design Unity Say Possibility Would Easy Nerve Similar Objects Put Come Most Also Pile Repetition Up Just Anybody Want Anyone Anything Pattern Available Room Creates Fun

Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with. Dan Phillips

Together Group Eat Like Identify Because Does Lions Trying Hang Human Just Human Beings Social Beings Groups Species

We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors. David Bromstad

War Happy Recession Purple Colors Been Yellow Optimistic Popular Why

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