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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.