Edith Head Clothes Quotations

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

If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.

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.

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

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

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.

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.

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

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.