Above Cartoon by W.K. Haselden in The Daily Mirror, January 14, 1918.
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EDITH HEAD (Hollywood costume designer), as interviewed in The Daily Mirror, November 2, 1970—
Well, I can go back to Mae West or right forward to Paul Newman. I was the first one to put clothes on Mae.
I remember she said to me: “Fit it tight, honey, I want them all to know I’m a girl from every angle.” But it didn’t work with Anita Eckberg.
There was so much of her that kept falling out.
I’m a camouflager. I can transform anyone into anything they want to be.…
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