I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenneth Jay Lane, and I always go to jewellers Butler & Wilson.
This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.
Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.
There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.
I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture. . . I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.
When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would have found appalling—an example of the moral decay of the young generation. It was sexual and dangerous and thrilling, and Evie wanted more of it.
Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.
The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz band, or a choir, and use every element that the musical tool box can offer. The world of music I love so much, and I can change the costume depending on the part, and I'm actually in the film.
Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.
I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes. . . every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.
It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing.
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do with being good at being a man within a small, embattled gang of men struggling to survive.
Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu
If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.