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The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.
I'm [going] through a mystified period of my life, where the more I learn, the less I know.
The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.
In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.
Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves.
It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.
I think timelessness is a very important factor in whatever I do. That's what makes a classic.
Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
It may be easier to get forgiveness than permission, but trust is harder to get back than both.
The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story.
Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.
The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.
Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it.
Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.
Some people change. Most people don't. Accepting this makes it much harder for them to disappoint you.
In love, there really is no "Right" and "Wrong". You just have to decide what you're willing to forgive
It actually is as fun to make men's costumes, especially if they are as good-looking as Chris Hemsworth.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and if you screw that up, you can start again tomorrow.
The main way I start to allocate color is that it comes from the comics. That's where it all starts from.
I've always liked what the Navajos say when they part. They never say 'Goodbye.' They say 'Go in beauty.'
Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.
Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.'
Style has become very important, the whole idea of style, what your personal style is. It's your identity.
We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.
I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.
I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.
Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.
Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.
Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.
The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.
Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.
You can't start putting difficult clothes on a person. They're actors: they have to move, they have to feel real.
I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.
As a kid, I dreamed of a knight in shining armor coming to rescue me. Now, I just dream of equal pay for equal work.
I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out.
A play is a painting that moves. Instead of it holding still, and you are looking at it, you hold still and it scrolls by.
I love Johnny (Depp). A lot of the stuff I've done for him stands out for me just because of the relationship and who he is.
With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?
When you're surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it's impossible not to have a smile on your face.
Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
If you aren't happy with your life, change things until you are... if you can't change something, change your attitude about it.
Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.
In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.
I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.
Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.
My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big a queue at our local gelataria, Messina.