My costumes were made for sex appeal not for women.
As a costume designer, it's important to give each person his or her own personalized look.
When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
Costumes, fashion, it's all an expression of self, and the more you push the boundaries - the more that people work at creating alternative ideas - the more it changes people's ideas of beauty.
The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. The clothes are on mannequins, also on hangers and in boxes with a photo of each piece, and there's a Web site where I can go to look through everything. It's too big - I could never sort through it myself! But these garments tell the stories of my life.
I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.
On the side of box of my superman costume it actually said - 'Do not attempt to fly!'
I'm a big comic book nerd so every time I'm in costume and see everyone in costume I'm just like "This is sick."
In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.
Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama
I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.
The threats against democracy today are in general completely normal. They walk around in costume and tie.
We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.
I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life character's costume.
I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.
I am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume.
The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in a costume here.
I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.
So, did the costume come with a condom, or is that sold separately?
Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.
Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist.
I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to the music,he doesn't simply perform it; he actually becomes the eagle itself. The dancer is virtually inseparable from the dance.
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal.' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis.
Costume designers don't care about trends. They appreciate, above so many other qualities, that tailoring is everything, which is a mantra for the way I dress. Ladies: The most important thing in clothing is to find a good, inexpensive tailor, because clothes at the stores are made for bodies that are anomalies.
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