'It all started with a little black dress,' costume designer Colleen Atwood tells BAZAAR.com about the character's signature style in the new Netflix series.
about the character's signature style in the new Netflix series.Wednesday Addams is one of cinema’s most lovable misanthropes, at once the outré patron saint of sadism, but also an intensely relatable character experiencing teen angst like the rest of us. We’ve seen her burn down summer camps, play with an antenna during a thunderstorm, and even shoot an arrow at an apple in her brother’s mouth—and we love her for it.
, however, reaches new levels of complexity and Gen Z style—in no small part because of the work of costume design super star and Academy Award winner Colleen Atwood, whose credits includeand 2023’s forthcomingWe caught up with Atwood to learn more about her process, how collaborating with Tim Burton so many times over the years has changed the way she sees the color black, and how she managed to give this new version of Wednesday Addams a sense of levity and relatability in what at first blush...
And besides using black that was semi-reflective, I used black with white. There’s almost no solid black that’s used. If a character is in a black jacket, for instance, I pair it with a white shirt underneath so you can see the sleeve peek out at the cuff, so it’s not just a blob of black on the screen.
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