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

Some people need sequins, others don't.

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.

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

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

As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.

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