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"It was Diane Keaton in 'Annie Hall' and I was a kid and I saw her on-screen and I couldn't believe a woman could dress like that and it just spoke volumes about her character for me for the movie and that was my hook," Erin Benach said.

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00:00I'd love to know if there was an aha moment for you all where you just realized that this was

00:12your calling. I remember looking at the screen credits and seeing so many names and seeing so

00:19many people in the wardrobe department and I realized then that there was a place for me

00:25in film. I'd already done theater and I'd been interning in opera and I'd been already here in

00:32LA but I think kind of like stopping and reading the credits and looking at the crews

00:38I realized that there was a vast world of costume design in film and that I could actually take my

00:46place there. Sandy? I was always interested in clothes and fashion since I was about that high

00:53and I didn't even think there was a job in that until later then I realized it was fashion I could

01:00be a fashion designer but I did have that moment when I was about 16 and I saw a particular piece

01:05of theater and I realized that that was the world I wanted to be part of and then I realized that

01:11then there was a job I could do within that world and that was in theater and then that led sort of

01:15naturally onto film. So for me it was experiencing a fantastic inspirational piece of theater in my teens.

01:23I think for me kind of is the same thing. I remember when I was a kid I was living in the south of France

01:30France and what really impacted me for me was every time it was fashion week in Paris I would be

01:40completely blown away by the images that I would see in in the news of the fashion shows in Paris and

01:48I remember just for those few images and I remember it was mostly Versace and it was the time when all the

01:54supermodels started to be very famous and I remember the floor of the runway was shiny and I remember

02:00the models were so beautiful and Versace was doing all these extraordinary clothes that were so

02:06colorful with so many patterns that to me I remember that feeling within myself that I've never seen

02:14anything as beautiful as that. So that was the reason why my first fashion was fashion but then later

02:20on when I came to LA and I was able to get in the union you know I started with Robert Turturis who

02:25hired me first as an illustrator on Batman and Robin and then shortly after I met Colleen Atwood and

02:30being sitting next to her allowed me to see the potential of working as a costume designer and that

02:38really is what made me excited of moving forward in that path. Erin I think you have a moment right you

02:46have like a film moment that you saw. I did I did thanks Booth I had I did have a moment it was Diane

02:53Keaton and Annie Hall and I was a kid and I saw her on screen and I just a I couldn't believe a woman

03:01could dress like that and b it just spoke volumes about her character for me for the movie and that was my hook

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