Edith Head
1897-1981
Hollywood Costume Designer
Edith Head (1897-1981)
"I am a native Californian Los Angeles is my home."
Edith Claire Posener was born in San Bernadino, California, in 1897, to parents, Max, and Anna Posener. Edith Posener spent the first few years of her young life in El Paso,Texas, a town on the Mexican border.
"I never dressed dolls because I lived in the desert, so mostly, we had burrows, and jack rabbits, so actually, I didn’t have an artistic, nor cultural background."
"Incidentally, you have know idea how helpful it is for a designer to have an education.""I was a romance language major while I did not know whether I was going to teach or not, I thought that languages were going to be my future. I’m very glad I know them now."
Edith Claire Spare graduated from Berkeley in 1919, and in 1920, the very same year women all over America acheived the right to vote, Edith attentended Stanford, and registered to vote in Los Angeles County.
