Edith Head

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you…

— Edith Head

Some people need sequins, others don't.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Edith Head

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

— Edith Head

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

— 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,…

— Edith Head

The subjective actress thinks of clothes only as they apply to her; the objective actress thinks of them only as they affect…

— Edith Head

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

— Edith Head

I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly…

— Edith Head

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

— Edith Head

Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something…

— Edith Head

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

— Edith Head

You can have whatever you want if you dress for it.

— 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

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

— Edith Head

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what…

— Edith Head

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

— Edith Head

I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, 'Grace…

— Edith Head

Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously…

— Edith Head

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

— Edith Head

Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there…

— Edith Head

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

— Edith Head

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.

— Edith Head