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Edith Head Biography

Edith Head (October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, starting with The Heiress (1949) and ending with The Sting (1973).

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We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.

Actors, Actress, Ask, Believe, Different, Public

As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.

Frilly, Lingerie, Resist, Shoes, Suitable, Weakness

I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give others the impression that they are.

Beautiful, Clothes, Deftly, Giving, Merely, Use

With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

Basic, Caring, Deeply, Female, Stars

Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel. '

Apparel, Guarantees, Overstuffed, Possible, Skeletons, Taste

Many women dress for men before marriage, and for women after marriage.

Clothes, Dresses, Marriage, Men, Women

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

Fashion, Language, Instinct, Like, Learn, Know

I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.

Competing, Mirrors, Stars, Thing, Way, White

Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.

Black, Clothes, Leather Pants, Rogers, Two, Wear

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

Desire, Fashion, Head, Heart, Pas

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

Fashion, Stars, Designer Clothes, Designer, Star, Good

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.

Clothes, Competition, Gird, Life, Life Is

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

Clothes, Actors, Motto

Just imagine dressing the two handsomest men in the world, and then getting this!

Dressing, Imagine, Men, Two, World

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

Cardinal, Cardinals, Clothes, Dressed, Sin, Thing

Some people need sequins, others don't.

Needs, People, Sequins

You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.

Dress, Fashion, Icons, Inspiring, Life

The subjective actress thinks of clothes only as they apply to her; the objective actress thinks of them only as they affect others, as a tool for the job.

Actress, Affect, Apply, Clothes, Jobs, Thinking

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen he's become a different person.

Actors, Believe, Costume, Doe, Magic, Public

I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, 'Grace Kelly. ' She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to me, a valued friend.

Actors, Animal, Gifted, Grace, Stars, Valued

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