COLLEEN ATWOOD AND MONIQUE LHUILLIER MENTION KRISTEN

cnn.com Monique Lhuillier on designing for celebrities …

 [It's a] platform for the world to see what my work looks like and they showcase it beautifully. They’re trendsetters and that’s such a positive — to get that exposure. The downside is you don’t have all the control. Sometimes when they put something on, they change the design a little bit to make it their own and our point of view is lost along the way. I love working with Taylor Swift. Kristen Stewart has been amazing. Reese Witherspoon was a dream to work with on her wedding because she knew what she wanted and has a great sense of style. It was a very easy collaboration. via kstewartnews

Colleen Atwood talks SWATH Costumes with Collider.com via fiercebitchstew/ kstewangel

Question: How closely did you collaborate with Charlize and Kristen on their costumes? 
Atwood: Initially, the first meeting I have with them, we talk about the character and I show them my ideas and listen to theirs. They were both very open to letting me do my thing. And then, as long as they could work in it, they were pretty amenable and excited by what they saw. Charlize has certainly been a model, but she’s also a great character actress on the inside, so her priorities were really character over beauty, and Kristen’s [were] as well. Kristen is a beautiful young woman, but she isn’t vane in the way that she’s looking at the mirror going “Oh, do I look fat in this?” With neither one of them, that was not where they were going with it. They were very into their character. 
  

SWATH COSTUME DESIGNER COLLEEN ATWOOD EXPLAINS KRISTEN'S SNOW WHITE TRANSFORMATION

MTV  To be sure, Kristen is no princess in peril in this retelling—and her costumes reflect that.“She isn’t playing a really fluffy kind of princess or anything, but she really, I think, is having fun getting to wear those kinds of things and she looks great in them,” Colleen explained of the period pieces. “I think for an actor, getting to put stuff like that on for movies is more work because it’s not in the comfort zone of a pair of jeans or sneakers. But it takes you to a different place in your mind and your body. She’s been great to collaborate with.”

And as Kristen’s character transforms into a fiercer version of herself, so does her wardrobe.“Her costume evolves as the story unfolds,” Colleen continued. “She runs away from a situation, and she’s on the run for a long time, so as she’s going, bits of it get torn away and it becomes a totally different animal by the time we get to another point in the movie. She has a couple other moments that are more ‘costume’ moments, but her basic costume—I think she wears it well, and I think it works really well in the parameters of the story.”

As for the suit of armor we’ve seen in so many set snaps, it isn’t real metal, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a certain heft to it. “It’s not comfortable by any means. It probably weighs about 15 pounds. It’s half her body weight,” Colleen joked.

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