Edith Head was undoubtedly Hollywoods most famous costume designer, or “magician,” as she liked to call herself. Her career spanned fiftyeight years of movie making. In those years she dressed almost every major star who shone in the industry and, with her straightcut bangs, dark glasses and tailored suits as her trademark, became more famous than most of them. Just a few weeks before she died, she was still waving at fans as the Universal City Studio Tour stopped at her bungalow.She was born Edith Claire Posener on October 28, 1897 in San Bernadino, California. Her parents soon divorced, her mother remarried, and the young child was given her stepfather’s surname, Spare. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and received a Masters Degree in Romance Languages from Stanford University in 1920. Edith Spare taught French and, despite her lack of experience in the subject, art at the Hollywood School for Girls.She enrolled in night classes at Otis Art Institute and Chouinard, where she met and married Charles Head, and became forever Edith Head.

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