Art & Creativity Quote by Colleen Atwood

There is a quiet power in the way Atwood lines up "movies, art and clothes" as if they were one continuous medium. She is not just listing hobbies; she is sketching a career philosophy where costume design isn’t decorative labor stapled onto a finished film, but a form of visual authorship. The grammar matters: "always" stakes a lifelong continuity, a steady appetite rather than a trendy fascination. "Loved" is disarmingly plain, almost evasive in its simplicity, the kind of understatement professionals use when the real point is craft, not confession.

The ordering is a tell. Movies come first because cinema is the arena where her work is ultimately seen and judged: in motion, under light, in close-up, under narrative pressure. Art sits in the middle as both legitimizer and toolkit, signaling composition, color theory, and a painter’s sense of silhouette. Clothes come last, repositioned from consumer object to storytelling instrument. The subtext is a gentle rebuttal to the idea that fashion and film occupy separate cultural castes, one serious, one frivolous. For Atwood, clothing is the most intimate prop: it touches the body, it carries time, class, desire, shame.

Context sharpens the intent. As a designer whose most celebrated work often disappears into characters (you remember the world, not the seam), this line reads like a map of influences that makes invisibility feel intentional. She’s saying: the costume is where these three loves overlap, and that overlap is the point.