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.

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

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

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

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

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