Edith Head Quotes

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Edith Head

Profession : Designer

Birth : October 28, 1907

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

Edith Head

Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs.

Edith Head

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

Edith Head

Some people need sequins, others don't.

Edith Head

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.

Edith Head

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.

Edith Head

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

Edith Head

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.

Edith Head

Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.

Edith Head

Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.

Edith Head

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.'

Edith Head

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.

Edith Head

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

Edith Head

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

Edith Head

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

Edith Head

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

Edith Head

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.

Edith Head

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

Edith Head

Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

Edith Head

You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

Edith Head