Fashion designer Edith Head

Edith Head

Living place: Los Angeles

Birthday: 28-10-1899

Global rank: #42420

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Who is Fashion designer Edith Head?
Edith Head is a famous American fashion designer who has received 8 Oscars and 35 Academy Award nominations in the fashion industry that no one has ever received before. After suffering from incurable bone marrow disease she passed away on October 24, 1981 at the age of 83; She is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. After her death, her name was honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at Hollywood Boulevard 6504.
 
 

Young / Before famous

In 1919, Edith Head graduated with a bachelor's degree in literature and correspondence with honors in French from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1920, she completed her master's program in emotional languages ​​from Stanford University and became a teacher of French at Bishop's School in La Jolla. After a year, she transferred to teach French at Hollywood School for Girls and attended evening classes at Chouinard College of the Arts.
Growing up in California, she and her family changed places frequently. There, she began her career as a costume sketch artist at Paramount Pictures. Though inexperienced in design, she soon became a costume designer for silent films that opened with the 1925 film The Wanderer. From the 1930s she became a household name. of the Academy for creating a new kind of costume design and winning the title for a Dorothy Lamour sarong. She became a fashion consultant for many audiences, especially the top female stars in Hollywood. She made a deep impression in the chiffon dress she designed for Ginger Rogers in the movie Lady in the Dark in 1944.
She is also the author of two books called The Dress. Doctor (1959) and How To Dress For Success (1967) describe her career and design philosophy; These two books were later re-edited in 2008 and 2011.
She worked there for 43 years until March 27, 1967, when she moved to Universal Pictures until her death. . In the late 1970s, her designs were used in a series of television miniseries and the comedy Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was her last film project.

Family life info

She was born into a Jewish family, her father Max Posener was a naturalized American citizen from Germany and her mother Anna E. Levy- the daughter of an Austrian and Bavarian. She had two marriages, her first to Charles Head in 1923, and then ending in 1938. She then married film director Wiard Ihnen in 2012. 1940 until her husband's death in 1979 from prostate cancer.

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She worked with Alfred Hitchcock while working at Universal Pictures.

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When was Fashion designer Edith Head born?
Edith Head was born in 28-10-1899, death year is , at the age of 125.
Where is Fashion designer Edith Head's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Edith Head was born in San Bernardino, California- United States. Ms working and living in Los Angeles, California- United States. Ms, whose Zodiac is Scorpius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Edith Head's global rank is 42420 and whose rank is 162 in list of famous Fashion designer.
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Events in 1899 and 28-10

Birthday Edith Head (28-10) in history

  • Day 28-10 year 1793: Eli Whitney applied for a patent for the cotton gin.
  • Day 28-10 year 1886: The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
  • Day 28-10 year 1919: Congress passed the Volstead Act, or the National Prohibition Act, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
  • Day 28-10 year 1922: Benito Mussolini took control of the government of Italy.
  • Day 28-10 year 1940: Italy invaded Greece during World War II.
  • Day 28-10 year 1958: A new pope was elected—Pope John XXIII.
  • Day 28-10 year 1962: Nikita Khrushchev told the U.S. that he had ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
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