Edith Head Quotes

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

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

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

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

Some people need sequins, others don't.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.

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.

There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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