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The Google banner for Edith Head has inspired me to repost this article from a few years back on her design for "Sabrina" in 1954. I am adding a great illustration for Natalie Wood's role in "Penelope" from 1966 as well. Edith Head illustration for Audrey Hepburn as "Sabrina" This look is so classic and as perfect for this New Year's as it was in the 1950's. You can whip up your own version with a 1950's vintage sewing pattern such as Simplicity 3002. Current retro style patterns Vogue #8874…

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@thatwashollywood on Instagram: "Grace Kelly in "To Catch A Thief" (1955), "Rear Window" (1954) and in "High Society" (1956). Costumes designed by Edith Head and Helen Rose. ✨ (Via, @viintageheart ) • • • • • • • #outfits #vintage #gracekelly #rearwindow #edithhead #iconic #costumes #1950s #oldhollywood"

kim novak wearing an edith head-designed dress in 1958's "vertigo"

In a career that spanned over five decades, costume designer Edith Head garnered 35 Oscar nominations and 8 wins, the most for any woman in history.

Pencil and watercolor on paper, annotated “Elizabeth Taylor sheer poncho over jersey sheath Huipil type top,” signed “Edith Head.” A huipil is a Guatemalan styl

A look at the life and work of the iconic Edith Head, by Betsy Blodgett.

Grace Kelly is remembered as one of the most flawlessly elegant women (and movie stars...and princesses) to have existed. We asked Gina McKinnon, author of What Would Grace Do? (Gotham Books), out this week,...

“I have shared this dress before but it is 65 years since the release of Roman Holiday and this glorious design by Edith Head for Audrey Hepburn. It seems much paler in the film and so the gold is something of a surprise, Bunka Gakuen Museum #bunkagakuen #1950sfashion #Hollywood”

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Barbara Stanwyck (1942) 'The Great Man's Lady' | Edith Head gown

Designer - Edith Head Blogged - thefoxling.blogspot.com/2012/01/rear-window-costume-desig...

Edith Head gown for Mae West movie She Done Him Wrong Designing Woman: Edith Head at Paramount 1924-1967 Decorative Arts Center Lancaster, Ohio

You must have heard of her , if not then you would certainly have seen some of her marvelous creations. She was born in 1897 and sadly left our presence in 1981. She won 8 Academy Awards for Costume design and was actually nominated for 35 of them. Never really having any formal training in art she was a teacher and offered to teach Art at Hollywood School for Girls and took night classes at Chouinard Art College where she met her first husband. She took a job at Paramount as a costume…

Helen Rose costume sketch of Elizabeth Taylor for The Last Time I Saw Paris. (MGM, 1954) Pencil, India-ink - Available at Profiles in History: "Drama,...

Marilyn Monroe’s measurements There’s a lot of discussion about whether Marilyn Monroe really was a size 16, and whether that was a US size 16 or a UK size 16, so I thought I’d look into it in more depth and see what I could find out. Like most women (with perhaps the exception of(...)