What is the name of Tim Burton's frequent costume designer?

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The name of Tim Burton’s frequent costume designer is Colleen Atwood.

Atwood is an American costume designer known for creating distinctive wardrobes that reinforce a film’s characters, setting, and visual mood. Her collaboration with Burton began with Edward Scissorhands and continued across films including Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

She has also designed costumes for directors such as Jonathan Demme and Rob Marshall. Atwood won Academy Awards for Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha, Alice in Wonderland, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Her work on Alice in Wonderland made her a particularly natural partner for Burton’s heightened, storybook aesthetic.

A common mix-up is confusing a costume designer with a film’s actors or production designers. Mary Zophres, Sandy Powell, and Edith Head are all prominent costume-design names, but none is Burton’s signature recurring costume collaborator. Atwood later designed costumes for Burton’s Wednesday as well.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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