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

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

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.

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

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.

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?