From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

I'm sitting across on someone who got her start working with Madonna and work with her on two films swept away in her directorial debut, W.E.

She was with James Mango five times, including on Girl Interruder, which basically set the new standard for coats for women.

Her current film, first collaboration with director Matthew Vaughn, is an adaptation of The Secret Service, the comic.

The film is called Kingsman, the Secret Service. I'm

seeing, of course, from Arian Phillips. Thanks so much for being here, first of all.

Thank you so much for having me. It's a dream coming true, to be honest. Well, you need more

dreams. That's all I have to say about that. But let me ask you, first, I mean, I've said this

before where we did a conversation last year at the LA Film Festival.

You have a really interesting eye for, I think, outerwear. And I noticed that in Angeline Jolie's coat, and The Girl Interrupted, and the beautiful jacket that Ben Foster wears in 310 to Yuma, which is a pretty astonishing leather jacket that made me want a coat from a Western for the first time in my life.

Talk about that the way you start from the outside. I mean, that's really interesting.

It's an interesting observation. I mean, to be honest, you're the first person to ever acknowledge that and actually made me think about it.

It's not purposeful. I think that as a designer, as a costume designer, my job is to create characters and part of the storytelling process.

You know, what tells you more about a person, a character on the screen than what they're

wearing?

It sets the time, the place, it underscores the vibe.

And I also believe that costumes are kind of a be-me-up machine, if you will.

There's a visceral quality that a costume can help an actor inhabit to access that character.

Lawrence Olivier said famously, he started with his character

from the shoes up, and I take that really seriously, and it was very inspiring. So I guess with

that said, I, you know, one of the first things as in design for me is silhouette and color.

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