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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.