Mistress of Movie Fashion: Edith Head's Hollywood by Edith Head and Paddy Calistro

If you love the movies, anecdotes about Hollywood legends, fashion and costume design, you'll enjoy this book of reminisces by Edith Head, the renowned costume designer, with commentary on Head's life by Paddy Calistro.

Edith Head's career stretched over nearly six decades, from the 1920s into the 1970s. She participated in the costume design of hundreds of films, and was nominated for thirty-five Oscars, winning eight over the years. She worked with actors from Mae West, to Bette Davis (who wrote the forward to this book), Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood, Paul Newman, Robert Redford and others too numerous to mention. She was closely associated with Alfred Hitchcock and other premier directors.

This book was published in 1983, after her death in 1981 at the age of eighty-three. It includes multiple pages of black and white photos of Head, some of her most memorable costumes, plus images of some of her sketches.

I highly recommend it for all film buffs and those who want to escape to the glamorous world of mid-twentieth century Hollywood.