A Hollywood legend

I have been fascinated for a while with the story of a particular lady in Hollywood, a lady who has won eight Academy Awards and been nominated 35 times, but she is not an actress. The person I have been curious to know more about is Edith Head. She was the Head Costume Designer for Paramount Pictures and worked there from 1924 through to 1967 when she moved to Universal Pictures.

She created some of the most legendary outfits in films over those years including working on many Hitchcock movies. They say she got her first job at Paramount by including the drawings from students that she was Teaching at a local school in her portfolio as she couldn't draw. But never less she worked her way up from Assistant Designer to Head Designer.

One of her first big movie star fittings was with Mae West who apparently asked her to design dresses that were "tight enough so I look like a woman, loose enough so I look like a lady". Which would have to be one of my favourite quotes of all time.
Perhaps I am a bit of a fashion nerd for wanting to research Edith Head and her designs but she had created some of the most iconic outfits in the last century.