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Edith Head
Legendary Hollywood costume designer
Edith Head was one of the most acclaimed costume designers in cinema history.
Born in 1897, she started working on costumes in the early days of talkies and worked on almost 500 movies before her death in 1981. The last film she worked on “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” in 1982 is dedicated to her memory.
Her early career was based at Paramount Pictures, but she moved to Universal in 1967.
The massive Prop Building at Universal Studios Hollywood and the Costume building at Paramount are named in her honour.
The character “Edna Mode”, designer of superhero costumes in Pixar’s The Incredibles is modelled on Edith Head.