Oscars 2013: Costume design nominees

As Snow White prepares for battle at the film's end, she dons a suit of armor, assembled from whatever the young woman found at hand. Atwood's design of a piecemeal suit "is not supposed to look like a slick, pulled-together suit," she said. "She can ride and fight in it, but there are very subtle clues that tell the audience that it has been thrown together in haste. There are leg pieces missing and the whole costume is not symmetrical."

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