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<font color="white" size=".72c">My training is in set design.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I went to the Yale Drama School in Set Design to study with Ming Cho Lee.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I've actually only take one course in costume design.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">The rest has been monkey see monkey do.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Now, this is the fun part.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I'm not exactly sure when the switch happened from scenery to costumes</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">But I think it happened as simply as I couldn't get any jobs doing scenery.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">when I moved to New York and everyone
needed some clothes.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">So I'll call William he has something in
a bag somewhere.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">So that's how it began.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Nine was my first big musical, second
musical on Broadway.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">It was like right out of the gate and I
won this Tony Award.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Thinking back on it, I don't know how
that happened. But it did change my life.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And made me feel like, oh I guess, I guess I'm doing this.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I'm always afraid of not being able to come up with an idea. And to counteract that fear of not</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">being able to think of something.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">It's why I've developed this amazing,
sort of blitz green gathering of images.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Because if you live in a cocoon, like
this seller basement of mine,</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">osmosis it just sort of bombards you with
the research, with the feeling, with the energy.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I think that helps ward off
that fear of designers block and so far</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">so good the designers block is kept at
bay at the moment.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">But it doesn't mean I don't have nightmares about it.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Absolutely.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You know when I first started, I took no
prisoners. In fact my agent used to get</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">these little packages.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">It had dimes and a Valium in it.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And it was if you're having a panic attack, call me and take a Valium.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">This lasted through the years, up through
25 cents. So it became quarters and two Valium.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I never took the Valium because I can't even take aspirin and and not be affected.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">But, the mere confidence of having the
little packages with two quarters and two Valiums</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">in it just was comforting to me. But it also acknowledged I was out of control.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I didn't have an overview. I thought
everything was life or death.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And I'm going to tell you right now that was the best way to begin. Kids starting out it</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">has to be life or death.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I never say no to a project. I would say
yes and then I figure out how to make it happen.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Because one door opens another and theaters all about relationships.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And I learned that the hard way because when I came into this business,</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I had a chip on my shoulder the size of
Manhattan.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Growing up in New York City in the
70s,</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">you can see it as the best of times and
the worst of time.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And the city was bankrupt. And I lived in
the South Bronx which is a lower income neighborhood.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">But within the craziness of the time,</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I was able to find beauty.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I always was interested in what color
people painted their apartments because</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">in the Bronx, a lot of the buildings were
burnt down or abandoned, you can look into</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">the windows and you can see the
different colors.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">New York in the 70s</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">that was the birth of hip-hop and it
changed the music we heard, the fashions,</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">and you can still see it in my aesthetic.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Graffiti, it's pretty much in everything I do,
whether it's text. I love text.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I am prone to use bright vibrant colors. So my upbringing is always apart of it.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I had a friend in Los Angeles who
emailed me to said Project Runway is</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">looking for designers and I think you
should audition.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">But they weren't sure that I had the right fit for the show because I was a costume designer.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Back when I was doing the show, Costume Designers were thought of as a gimmick.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">They really didn't see us as Fashion Designers. So I had to go back again and</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">really prove to them that I was a
Fashion Designer.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I learned that I have very little
patience for when things don't go my way.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And I think TV just amplified that. But also I learned that I can put out good work</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">under extreme stressful situations
and if I follow my instinct,</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I could be successful.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">A great designer I knew was Charles James. I moved to the Chelsea Hotel.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">He lived on the sixth floor. I lived on the
fourth floor.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I would send him notes saying, I'd love
to meet you, this, and of course</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">he totally ignored all of them because he would get that all the time.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And then, I was making a doll and I was having trouble with the bodice.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And something just occurred to me to write a note.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Dear Mr. James. I'm having problems with this dress.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Ten minutes later he came to my
apartment and there was the doll.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And he saw the doll and he advised me. He
thought I was going the right way.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">He said he was, just too bad it was too
small. He would love to see it life-sized.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">that's what he said. I said well
we're starting with the doll. [laughs]</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Hello. How are you?</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Look where I am.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You're here.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Roof top, yeah.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">What I loved about it was the light. When I create I need light.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">So you can tell what colors things are.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Exactly. And when I procrastinate, I can look at the stuff.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">What do you mean? I feel everything.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Exactly.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I was in Fashion School. I was I think 15/16 maybe and Nine...</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You had just done Nine. And that famous lace jumpsuit that Anita Morris wore.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And I remember opening the newspaper and seeing that. I was like whoa what is that?</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Now I know why I was so attracted to it. It just changed my, at least my idea of what</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">costume was because that was more of fashion.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">They hadn't done anything like that
in theater before and they got so much press.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">She was on David Letterman. And I
stayed up late one night just to watch her.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And I think it was by using that little
ruffle at the ankle and at the cuff.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">That's what made it not just a leotard.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">It gave it the sensitive side.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Do you know why I added it?</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Why did you add it?</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">No I don't know. I'm fascinated by that story.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Because the ankles were small</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">yeah and I wanted the curve to stay and not go pointy. So I gave it out a little</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">flamenco energy to give it a little Va va va Voom! Then it goes out, you know.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And she decided to go for it.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">It changed her career.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">It did. It changed all our careers. Oh, my goodness.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Well I didn't realize that this interested you.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">That's I think the power of theater.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">It transcends generations,</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">color lines, economic boundaries and your
people are in a dark sharing of story</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">What's in this room?</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Oh this room. Oh you have to come see this.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">This is like where the actual work gets done.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I have my brother...</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You can tell how tall you are.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I'm telling you this.... Some of my
favorite times with my actor is in the fitting room.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">That's when I get into their heads.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And then how does it starts a fitting, say</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">you start with a what? a mirror</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">A mirror and underwear.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Yeah mirror and underwear.
Let's get everything where it needs to be.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Where you feel comfortable and then I
don't ask them do you like something,</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I ask my first question to an actor is tell
me about the character. Who is she?</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Where did you go to school? What kind of
music do you listen to?</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Are you a high heel girl? Which they all
say yeah no matter what the role is.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">What do you do when men want to wear...
What waist, waistline on man period vs. contemporary.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Well, what did you do with Porgy and Bess with waistline?</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Well here's the thing and for me
sometimes the little tricky because I</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">come in with these modern waist, my pants
are lower and my hips and then I'm trying</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">to teach them or get them to wear their
pants at their natural waist.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">The navel. That's totally completely different for the</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">youth for young people today. But I just
I just make them do it, and, and then when</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">they don't want to do it, I just put a pair of
suspenders on.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">to make sure... and then I stitch them.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">That's the trick. Cause they'll drop them down.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I realize that men are fussier than women.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Because we don't have a lot of different
things to wear. We wear a pair of pants everyday,</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">a shirt or tee shirt or a jacket. That's what we wear everyday.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">So that that suit has to say everything.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Because they don't have five different changes.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Also men throughout history have really been peacock themselves too.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">One longs for the 17th century and Louis the 14th because then you can then its peacock alley.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">It is a natural thing for men to have
the plumage, all the birds, nature.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">The men always have, the males have the bright colors.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Do you see it coming back now with
so much freedom. With pop culture</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">and the performers. Do you see where
men are being more experimental with color</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">or are they just like performers and not really people.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I wish that that were so.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">In fact, the skinny suits, and the boys, and
the young gay boys, and the young straight</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">metrosexual boys, and I would love all
that. I mean it's wishing, right</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">But, wishin don't make it so.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I haven't done a job where I can't look
back and look at something you've done.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I remember Annie Get Your Gun was so
influential because I was working at</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Matera's at the time and you did all
that wonderful leather, all those chaps.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">But they weren't like normal chaps. These
were like the most beautiful chaps.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Sexy Chaps.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">But just the craftsmanship.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Willa, oh you know is my hero oh and sort of got me started in the business.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I saw her work on PBS in the early seventies, late sixties early seventies.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And I just thought someone can do that.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">That's a job. We could make a living. You
can do that. I didn't know that that</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">level of art could be done with and she
had done the sets and the costumes for this ballet.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And it was in Black and White on
television.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">What it is is about that one about black,
how do you do black and white and still</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">keep it dynamic and interesting for the
audience without getting repetitive.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You gave me an amazing an
amazing trick about the skin tones.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">How you bring the skin tone. It's not just Black and White.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You have to bring that because
it has to, somehow you have to soften it in.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Permission and of course, you know who did that so beautifully is Willa.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">She always painted skin tones into the
leotards.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Yes and so you didn't know where the
color was coming.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">She wanted them to be basically naked yeah well who doesn't?</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">but uh and so she discovered that
was the key with Sally Ann Parsons.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">So we're gonna go see Willa. Oh cool.
Hopefully she'll have...</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I don't know whether she has sketches. You know, she's also right at the edge of tomorrow.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Cutting edge.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You're my hero.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You're my hero.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Thank you for today.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I've been wearing this outfit for decades.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">White shirt, stripe tie, navy blazer, khaki pants, black shoes. Now there have been variations</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">for some reason, deeply psychological
things, I have forgotten, but a wee</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">period during the seventies I were blue
jeans.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Whoo-hoo what was I thinking.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">The worst thing a costume designer can wear are interesting clothes.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Nothing destroys confidence like
cleverly inventive clothes worn by</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">your costume or wardrobe person because
it means you are spending time thinking</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">about yourself.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You need to save all of your energy and
design essence for the work.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I have Kander and Ebbs Chicago running now in its18-year. Sometimes the fabrics are no</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">longer available so I have to choose
other fabrics and actually I love this.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I mean what a wonderful problem to have.
Oh the costumes are falling apart</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You hope the shows run forever and, but when they don't, I try very hard to get the</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">producers to give them to me.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Gosh I'm going to fabric stores and I
find fabrics that I should have used in</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">a play that ended two years ago and I buy it.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I buy the fabric. I have bins of fabric of
shoulda woulda coulda bins.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">That sit up there. And sometimes I reuse
them. But usually I just collect them.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Because for m e it's completing a process
and I owe it to the memory of that production.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">It's sort of crazy but I could be on a guest episode of hoarders.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">This is my concept board for Cinderella.
I always at the end of one show I have</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">one board that is just for that show and
has the essence of that show.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And I'd leave it on it especially if it's still running.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I was trying to figure out I wanted,
during the ball scene, the ballroom scene</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">you know, it's very aspirational who
doesn't want to marry a prince and I was</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">trying to show my costume houses that I
wanted to see through these dresses like this.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And I couldn't. I was trying to
invent something so I made this little doll.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And you know what it worked because I
was able to take a look the little doll and</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">of course everyone laughed very indulgently at me and they said William and his dolls...</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">But, here we go.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And so all the ball gowns are like this.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Bullets Over Broadway is a backstage</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">musical and the story is basically no
one wants to give any money except for</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">the gangster who said i'll give you
money for your show but my girlfriend</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">has to have a big role in it.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">That's old story, in fact it still happens
today. in fact it's one of my shows right now.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Anyway because we're overexposed to
gangsters at the moment I just some</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">trying to very hard to make my take on it different.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I've lined them up like this because
these are all the gangsters.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Here's the set and all this color is
this is based on this art deco door.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I like turning it upside down because then
you're not reading it.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">So the interesting thing to do,</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">which is very exciting for me, is to try
to keep that color, very strict color scheme</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">so you've got like all these gangsters on stage, but you want them all</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">to be tied together in front of this.
Well there aren't enough colors in this.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And then I found this wonderful
Bug picture 1925, which actually has</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">little bits green little bits of blue.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">That's sort of a peach but anyway that's
that's the job that's the assignment.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Because unlike a film we see all these
people on stage head to toe.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I have to help the audience know where
to look. In fact often on stage,</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I have the leading ladies understudy standing next to her.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Well guess what? I've got to, I often tell her, I said darling I'm so terribly</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">sorry I have a bear you under a bushel.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I still wake up in the morning so
excited about what I'm doing.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">My favorite centerpiece of my life is in the fitting room.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I'm often aware of the fact the body
language and fitting. I can always tell that aha moment.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">It's very exciting because then they can
see themselves being transformed.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I often start with vintage underwear.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Even though no one will see. It's like
the inside of a pocket books.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I always fill pocketbooks with compacts and period lipstick and period handkerchiefs that helped</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">someone realized this is where I am this
is what I'm doing.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I was, I think I was, six maybe I was
five or four, but I had this wonderful</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">dog named Manteo and she would follow me everywhere, you know, move when I moved</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">and sit when I sat. I got a needle and
thread and I had the end of a pillowcase.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">that was already hemmed. And I
remember taking, I remember this</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">taking the needle and thread and going
in and out all the way around.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I think I ran out of thread or something I
remember and I thought oh I have to get</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">around there and I pulled it and I
invented pleating and I put it on my dog</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">and I tightened it more and it was a
rough a ruffled collar for my dog.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I invented it. That was my first my first costume.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I love the news.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">JPMorgan's legal hurdles expected to multiply.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Well that's all they need.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Speedy trains transform China.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Well I would think so. Blackberry buyout
offer raises questions.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Army of questions. I can't believe this.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I should try to clean this thing up. It's just awful.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And here it... hang on.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">and Julie Andrews.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I designed her costumes for her in one
of the shows that she was, I guess the last one she did.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">what's so funny is that I brought around a lot of stuff and she picked what she liked.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">When it was all over she
asked me what happened to the rest of</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">them she wanted to keep them.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">[doorbell rings]</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">William. I knew it was you.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Oh you're dressed.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I was just going to change.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Well don't change. Never change.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I haven't been here in a while.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Uh-huh you remember? I remember
everything that, it's crazy.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">It's when the Emperor, who is on his deathbed, and about to die and Rusenyow sings</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">and then he wakes up. So he doesn't die.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And it's in color but when I saw it when I saw it on PBS</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">broadcast it was in black and white.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Watching that made me want to become a
designer. I was in Art history</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I was gonna write ...</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I know I know about you, you're an intellectual.</font>
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Well, I want to be everything.</font>
273
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Later, because I didn't have a playbill. I found out that you had</font>
274
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<font color="white" size=".72c">designed the scenery, and costumes, and props.</font>
275
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<font color="white" size=".72c">So you're the exact reason I wanted to
do this for a living.</font>
276
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<font color="white" size=".72c">This crazy thing we do. Oh so there it's
your fault.</font>
277
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<font color="white" size=".72c">It's my fault.</font>
278
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<font color="white" size=".72c">That's the best thing I've done.</font>
279
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<font color="white" size=".72c">oh haha William you're such an addition
to our trade our craft of whatever it is we do.</font>
280
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<font color="white" size=".72c">It's a trade.</font>
281
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Really it's an art. It's an art form.</font>
282
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I always wanted to be an artist so don't...</font>
283
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Don't tell me I'm a tradesperson.</font>
284
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You know? I never studied design.</font>
285
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<font color="white" size=".72c">No?</font>
286
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<font color="white" size=".72c">No. I didn't know it existed.</font>
287
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I was an artist. I was going to
be an artist. And I got a job without a portfolio</font>
288
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<font color="white" size=".72c">at The May company in LA and within two weeks of doing their full page ads.</font>
289
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I was just... a mad success, you know?</font>
290
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And making all this money.</font>
291
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Well I thought it was a lot of money. I
think it was forty five dollars a week.</font>
292
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And then Paramount called. Paramount offered me 75 dollars a week.</font>
293
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And I said no I'm happy. I'm doing what I want to do/</font>
294
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And then I was telling this man sitting behind me at The May company and he said,</font>
295
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<font color="white" size=".72c">you have to take it because not many designers get that offer.</font>
296
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<font color="white" size=".72c">So I went and then I thought what am I
doing here?</font>
297
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You know? This isn't what I wanna do.
I'm hanging around sound stages doing nothing.</font>
298
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And it's all a big factory and I'm unhappy.</font>
299
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<font color="white" size=".72c">So this woman, this stately woman walked
by me and she saw me loitering because</font>
300
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I didn't know what I was doing there. I
was just hanging around Paramount.</font>
301
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And she asked me to do some
color samples for her for these sketches.</font>
302
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And it was Karinska. Then she wanted to find out and said</font>
303
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I want that girl to be my assistant.</font>
304
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<font color="white" size=".72c">When I realized who she was. It wasn't
just meeting designers.</font>
305
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You know meeting designers, Hollywood designers is not that great, at least done as an artist.</font>
306
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You think of them as a tradespeople or something.</font>
307
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Through her I met all these wonderful artists that she knew.</font>
308
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Who were some of the artists you met through Karinska then?</font>
309
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Well, Raoul Pène du Bois.</font>
310
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<font color="white" size=".72c">He brought her to Paramount.</font>
311
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<font color="white" size=".72c">To do his movie Lady in the Dark. Frenchman's creek.</font>
312
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<font color="white" size=".72c">So I go visit him at MGM and wait for him and he'd be busy or something.</font>
313
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And then he'd come up and
he said to me, you know who you are</font>
314
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<font color="white" size=".72c">sitting next to? And I said, no. He said Marlene</font>
315
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I said I'm sitting next to Dietrich? The
whole time I didn't even look at her.</font>
316
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I didn't look at her. I didn't recognize
her.</font>
317
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<font color="white" size=".72c">So funny. There's Balanchine. I'm sitting
right next to him.</font>
318
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And which is Raoul?</font>
319
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<font color="white" size=".72c">This one back here right next to
Karinska.</font>
320
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<font color="white" size=".72c">That's Raoul's boyfriend.</font>
321
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I tell you isn't an extraordinary education .</font>
322
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I wanted to be a designer. I couldn't pick the two most important people in costumes and sets</font>
323
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<font color="white" size=".72c">than Karinska and Raoul Pène du Bois.</font>
324
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<font color="white" size=".72c">and where does Balanchine fit into this?</font>
325
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Well he was married to an actress.</font>
326
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<font color="white" size=".72c">So he was a Stage-door Johnny or was he
choreographing the movie?</font>
327
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<font color="white" size=".72c">He was a Stage-door Johnny. He had an eye for girls.</font>
328
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<font color="white" size=".72c">These are the ballets that I did.</font>
329
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You know who he is?</font>
330
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Baryshnikov. He was the most
beautiful dancer.</font>
331
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<font color="white" size=".72c">It's fun to look at all these paints.</font>
332
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I've never seen you do this.</font>
333
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Oh look on the other side this is a ballet.</font>
334
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<font color="white" size=".72c">This is the bottom of a tutu.</font>
335
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You're involved in dance from the very
beginning.</font>
336
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You see the choreographer talks about an
idea.</font>
337
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Then he or she is working on
expressing that idea in movement.</font>
338
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And you're involved from that moment on and trying to create the idea in through dance.</font>
339
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And so I think your involvement is deeper,</font>
340
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Plays of course, it can do that too, but they're pretty much, well so is dance,</font>
341
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<font color="white" size=".72c">done for an audience. But, you're not aware of that as much.</font>
342
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You're involved with the idea of what the dance is about.</font>
343
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I remember doing a play and having a
fitting with two women.</font>
344
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And they had been talking about me and how little I, you know, she knows and they were really</font>
345
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<font color="white" size=".72c">terribly superior and and, oh god what am I gonna do?</font>
346
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<font color="white" size=".72c">So I went in and a friend of mine came
up at the fitting and she said,</font>
347
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Oh did you read what Jonathan Miller wrote
about you in the New York Times.</font>
348
00:29:45,770 --> 00:29:51,440
<font color="white" size=".72c">And I said no I haven't had a chance to. So I
found it. It was a wonderful article.</font>
349
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And those two bitches who were in the play,</font>
350
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<font color="white" size=".72c">naturally saw it because he was their
director as well as mine.</font>
351
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And so I didn't have to defend
myself at all.</font>
352
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:09,640
<font color="white" size=".72c">It was there in print.</font>
353
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<font color="white" size=".72c">It's always that early in your life you
remember those things because you're so</font>
354
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<font color="white" size=".72c">raw and emotional about what you're
doing because you're so vulnerable when</font>
355
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<font color="white" size=".72c">you're a young designer. You know....</font>
356
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You're so lucky to get the job and then
not to shortchange the director,</font>
357
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<font color="white" size=".72c">or whoever is terrible, you just,
you never get over that.</font>
358
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:54,220
<font color="white" size=".72c">They have to go through it and harden themselves.</font>
359
00:30:54,220 --> 00:30:59,109
<font color="white" size=".72c">It prepares you for your next
director your next show.</font>
360
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<font color="white" size=".72c">And it toughens you but also you learn
from these things.</font>
361
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I always say three things.</font>
362
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<font color="white" size=".72c">When you're starting out, you're a puppy dog.</font>
363
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<font color="white" size=".72c">a golden retriever; You are
licking with your tongue.</font>
364
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,200
<font color="white" size=".72c">You're so excited you're jumping up knocking people over.</font>
365
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,600
<font color="white" size=".72c">Then the second moment in life:</font>
366
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<font color="white" size=".72c">Shakespeare had seven ages of man. I have three.</font>
367
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<font color="white" size=".72c">The second one is knowledge. You learn.
You understand. You have knowledge.</font>
368
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<font color="white" size=".72c">You make discerning choices and you're a
professional.</font>
369
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<font color="white" size=".72c">The third and final stage</font>
370
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<font color="white" size=".72c">is wisdom and wisdom has the effect of
you sit in you're comfortable chair,</font>
371
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<font color="white" size=".72c">you have your single malt scotch right
at your hand, and you go you know maybe</font>
372
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<font color="white" size=".72c">we just don't do that.</font>
373
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<font color="white" size=".72c">I just hope wisdom doesn't take over.</font>
374
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<font color="white" size=".72c">[End Credits]</font>
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