Daily Inspiration Quote by Colleen Atwood

Costume design, in Atwood's telling, isn't a mood board; it's a supply chain with instincts. Her line about Planet of the Apes quietly demystifies the glamour people project onto Hollywood craft. Yes, she had "a very knowledgeable team" versed in "good materials" - the institutional competence of a veteran shop. Then she spotlights the one person who mattered in a different way: a dedicated hunter "online and on the street", constantly scanning for the right stuff. The intent is practical, almost procedural, but the subtext is a philosophy: the look of a world gets built through relentless sourcing, not just clever sketches.

Planet of the Apes is a telling context because it's a film where credibility lives in surfaces. Those costumes have to read as functional, lived-in, and non-human without looking like party-store fur. That demands materials with specific behavior under light, movement, weathering, and close-up lenses. Atwood's emphasis on "proper materials" signals that design is as much about physics and texture as silhouette.

There's also a cultural clue in the split between "online" and "the street". This is the hybrid era of making: digital marketplaces expanding options, street-level scavenging providing unpredictability and authenticity. Atwood is effectively arguing for research with dirt under its fingernails. The romantic myth of the lone auteur dissolves into a portrait of leadership that looks like delegation, trust, and a near-obsessive commitment to getting the details right enough that the audience stops noticing them.