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"If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story."
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"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."
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"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"
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"A blond in a red dress can do without introductions - but not without a bodyguard."
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"Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945."
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"If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?"
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"Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
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"I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?"
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"Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man."
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"I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show."
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"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."
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"I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration."
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"As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things."
People
"The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all."
Design
"Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are."
Impression
"Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were."
Beauty
"The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired."
Film
"I've always loved movies, art and clothes."
Art
"In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them."
Life
"Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie."
Action
"In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need."
Coordination
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