DRESSING UP THE STARS: THE STORY OF MOVIE COSTUME DESIGNER

Dressing Up the Stars: The Story of Movie Costume Designer Edith Head Hardcover – Picture Book, September 20, 2022by Jeanne Walker Harvey (Author), Diana Toledano (Illustrator) Discover the true story of how a shy miner’s daughter became one of the most legendary costume designers in Hollywood in this inspiring nonfiction picture book biography. 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 Holly