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

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

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition..

Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built complete wardrobe on a limited budget. "Money," I tell them, "is no guarantee of tast….

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

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

I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give others the im….

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

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 th….

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

If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and Fren….

Some people need sequins, others don't..

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 y….

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 musi….

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

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 li….

I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, "Grace Kelly." She is ….

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 t….

I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirr….

Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants..

Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear..