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Dressing Up the Stars: The Story of Movie Costume Designer Edith Head

As a child in the small mining town of Searchlight, Nevada, Edith Head had few friends and spent most of her time dressing up her toys and pets and even wild animals using fabric scraps. She always knew she wanted to move somewhere full of people and excitement. She set her sights on Hollywood and talked her way into a job sketching costumes for a movie studio. Did she know how to draw or sew costumes? No. But that didn’t stop her!

Edith taught herself and tirelessly worked her way up until she was dressing some of the biggest stars of the day, from Audrey Hepburn to Grace Kelly to Ginger Rogers. She became the first woman to head a major Hollywood movie studio costume department and went on to win eight Academy Awards for best costume design — and she defined the style of an era. In this inspiring picture book biography, full of detailed mixed-media illustrations, kids will learn all about this pioneer of women in film.

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Product Details

Recommended Age 5 - 9
Author Jeanne Walker Harvey
Illustrator Diana Toledano
ISBN 1534451056
Publication Date Sep 20, 2022
Publisher Beach Lane Books
Language English