Edith Head Professions : Costume Designer Born : October 28, 1897 Died : October 24, 1981 Browse All Authors Top 40 quotes by Edith Head A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady. Edith Head eyebrows icons fashion You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it. Edith Head icons fashion inspiring Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. Edith Head instinct fashion language 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 magic doe believe 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 home needs thinking Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself. Edith Head clothes world thinking Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants. Edith Head leather-pants clothes two Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear. Edith Head want trying jobs A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. Edith Head designer-clothes fashion stars 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 horse want water Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built complete wardrobe on a limited budget. "Money," I tell them, "is no guarantee of taste and the fitness of things, and an overstuffed closet is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel." Edith Head skeletons taste guarantees There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter. Edith Head size stars matter 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 Edith Head stars mirrors white 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 costumes years ideas 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 Edith Head clothes beautiful giving Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition. Edith Head clothes competition life-is 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 depressing musical today 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 thanks growing today Some people need sequins, others don't. Edith Head sequins people needs My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes. Edith Head motto clothes actors
