How to dress for success by edith head, hardcover barnes. Even she lost track of how many films shed worked on. However, edith head is no runofthemill hollywood costumer. Edith head, american motionpicture costume designer. Edith head 18971981, a doyenne of motionpicture costume, was famous for her remarkable career that spanned fifty years and earned her eight academy. Edith heads hollywood hardcover october 25, 1983 by edith head author. Edith head biography facts, childhood, family life. The dress doctor by edith head 2011, paperback for sale. Edith head was an american costume designer who won 8 8. Head also authored two books, the dress doctor 1959 and how to dress for success 1967, describing her career and design philosophy. Edith head told the press that hepburn had, a lovely, audible face, and expressive body and the slimmest waist since the civil war nineteen and a half inches. The fiftyyear career of hollywoods greatest costume designer by jorgensen, jay available in hardcover on, also. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Never before has the account of hollywoods most influent all about eve.
We deliver the joy of reading in 100% recycled packaging with free standard shipping on u. Scores of iconic films of the last century had one thing in common. In 1959, she published a bestselling memoir and style guide, the dress doctor, in which she also shared dozens of entertaining anecdotes about hollywoods alist with her fans. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. Edith heads hollywood goes where the dress doctor failed to by giving readers a more in depth look into the woman behind the enigmatic designer. This book also dispells various rumors about edith and gets behind the truth to several false claims and accusations some by edith herself. She racked up an unprecedented 35 oscar nods and 400 film credits over the course of a fiftyyear career. Edith head began her long and extraordinary career in the 1920s, mainly under the tutelage and shadow of one of the great hollywood costume designers, travis banton. Be the first to ask a question about edith heads hollywood lists with this book tshirts, purses, corsets, panties, hats, glasses, gloves, jewelry, uniforms, shoes, brassieres, boutiques, and fashions unique.
How costume designer edith head changed the look of. Includes many drawn illustrations by edith head and photographs. Never before has the account of hollywoods most influential designer. Edith head was an american costume designer, who over the course of her fivedecadelong career, won a record eight academy awards. The design above is for miss lamour in aloma of the south seas 1941. Edith head 18971981 is indisputably the most famous costume designer of all time.
I tend to like reading books set during the golden age of hollywood and ive always admired edith heads talent, so i looked forward to reading design for dying. Includes head in the outdoor kitchen, standing near a display of mexican earthenware. Which is why the perfect person to solve a behindthescenes mystery in the golden age of hollywood is legendary costume designer edith head. The dress doctor by edith head, jane kesner morris ardmore. How to dress for success by edith head, joe hyams alibris. For more than fifty years, edith head designed the wardrobes of hollywood stars, defining cinema style through the golden era and into the early 1980s. Story time just got better with prime book box, a subscription that delivers editorially handpicked childrens books every 1, 2, or 3 months at 40% off list price. Through six decades of hollywood fashion, edith head dressed the screens bestdietrich, lombard, the hepburns, hope and crosby, grace kelly and elvis presley, to name a few. If edith wanted to improve her quality of life, it was up to her. In 1967, you couldnt stop for a botox quickie at lunch time. Wisedup onceaspiringactress lillian frost meets edith head during a murder investigation.
Long before rachel zoe, andrea leibermann, estee stanley, and nicole chavez were styling hollywood celebrities, eighttime oscar awardwinning edith head was the sartorial sensation behind the silver screens most highprofile stars and starlets. Celebrating a quartercentury since its initial release, edith heads hollywood is reissued in trade paper, complete with an expanded photo section featuring the best work of the worlds most famous costume designer. Edith head was born on october 28, 1897 in san bernardino, california, usa as edith claire posener. Heads idea of a welldressed woman clearly goes with that of her time e. This unprecedented access allows this book to be a oneofakind. Grace kelly or audrey hepburn but considering that that idea is still considered welldressed today, this book can be very useful. She designed for so many famous films, including sweet charity, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, vertigo, to catch and thief, white christmas, sunset boulevard, and countless others just look at her page on imdb. Her costumes have now been recreated on beautiful dolls designed by award winning artist robert tonner. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. A selection of illustrations by designer edith head, from the 1967 random house edition of her book how to dress for success. Long before rachel zoe, andrea leibermann, estee stanley, and nicole chavez were styling hollywood celebrities, eighttime oscar awardwinning edith head was the sartorial sensation behind the silver screen s most highprofile stars and starlets.
The top ten edith head movies trying to select the ten best films featuring costumes designed by edith head verges on the impossible. I suppose any book documenting edith heads 50 year career in hollywood is better than nothing, but this one doesnt even try to be in depth. Well written and researched, and with plenty of photos it examines how she functioned and shaped future stars and the way the represented and managed their image. Edith head was perhaps the most famous hollywood costume designer of all time. Beginning in the early 1930s until her retirement in 1977, edith head costumed the stars of over 500 films. It was summer vacation of 1924 and edith head, 27, wanted a new job. Head was the daughter of a mining engineer, and she grew up in various towns and camps in arizona, nevada, and mexico. Read edith head the fiftyyear career of hollywoods greatest costume designer by jay jorgensen available from rakuten kobo. In honor of the late edith heads 116th birthday, we rounded up the iconic costume designers most legendary onscreen styles, from audrey hepburn in funny face to. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices.
Responsible for some of the most memorable film wardrobes in history her credits included vertigo, sabrina, and sunset boulevard, to name but a few, head was nominated for dozens of oscars. Edith head books list of books by author edith head. Edith head, a complete treasury of the fiftyyear career of. Winner of eight oscars for costume design, the author describes some of the hundreds of productions she worked on and gives her personal impressions of the. Kathryn dixon edith head is probably the most iconic of all hollywood costume designers. Winner of eight oscars for costume design, the author descri. Frances farmer in rhythm on the range, 1936, and ebb tide, 1937. Edith heads new project doesnt exactly make lillian frost think hooray for hollywood. Buy how to dress for success by edith head, joe hyams online at alibris. Academy award winning designer edith head was the grand dame of hollywood glamour.
Photographs show interior and exterior views of hollywood costume designer edith heads kitchen in her beverly hills, california, home. Isbn 9781883318895 9781883318895 softcover, angel city press, 2008. This special gift editionan alphabetical romp through the art of getting dressed and dressing hollywoodfeatures edith heads best advice and stories, in her own words, along with gorgeous new illustrations. Buy the dress doctor by edith head, jane kesner morris ardmore online at alibris. The independent uk, 10410 theres fierce, and theres edith head. The name to drop in the golden age of hollywood, head was wardrobe consultant on rear window and all about eve, to name a couple of classics. Edith head is legendary in hollywood history and this book on her life and work is long overdue. The life and times of hollywoods celebrated costume. Edith heads most iconic looks edith head old hollywood. The brilliant edith head was responsible for some of the most iconic and glamorous film looks in all of hollywood history, and ive been a big fan of hers for years which is why im surprised i dont have a coffee table book dedicated to her work. Written after edith head died using her tape recorded memoirs, its a fascinating look at how head worked her way up from the bottom to become one of the most famous costume designers in hollywood. Filled with pithy anecdotes and neverbeforeseen sketches, edith head is the book for the costume design enthusiast. During her fortyfour years at paramount studios, she dressed hollywood.
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