Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'

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.

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

You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.

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

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 mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.