Quotes About Costume

I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

wearing straight clothes but still in costume—as Rodgers summed it up, "His seemingly casual appearance was actually the flowering of his next drag: He was delving into the eighties metrosexual world of high fashion, a precursor to what's called 'Executive Realness' in vogueing competions.

Perhaps he wanted to make Monsieur Daladier feel at home by dressing as the Michelin Man?

You look like a B-movie Dracula.' - Anita to Aubrey Guilty Pleasures

Right now, I couldn't have cared less if someone had waltzed across the room in a large flower costume with a sign saying GET YOUR BLACK TULIPS HERE. Every nerve in my body was on man-alert, screaming, incoming!

Don't worry," said Lizzy brightly, dancing into the chamber in a peculiar costume that was part Robin Hood and part Paris frock. "I have my crossbow." Nicolas regarded the costume appreciatively. "That is a most unusual ensemble, mademoiselle. But becoming." "I know," said Lizzy. "And I still have my crossbow." Nicolas bowed his head in acknowledgment.

It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character.""I don't even know what that is!""Because your generation has no taste in speculative science fiction.

The strongman shoved him, and Uncle Barney fell to the ground. His knight's costume of pots and pans banged loudly.

Next to Flora was Agot, who was clearly furious not to be involved in proceedings. She was wearing something strange (it was, in fact, Fintan's old angel costume) and muttering, 'STICKY STICKY STICK STICK' in a tone just loud enough to be irritating and just quiet enough that she was getting away with it.

When we pull up in my driveway, Kitty runs out of the house and over to the car. "Spider-Man!" she shrieks. She's still in her ninja costume, though she's taken the mask off. "Are you coming inside?" I glance at Peter. "He can't. He has to go condition." Peter spends an hour a day conditioning for lacrosse. He's very dedicated to it. "Condition?" Kitty repeats, and I know she's imagining Peter washing his hair.

This year I'm going as Cho Chang from Harry Potter. I've got my Ravenclaw scarf and an old black choir robe I found on eBay, plus one of my dad's ties and a wand. I'm not going to win any contests, but at least people will know what I am. I wish I never have to answer a what are you? question ever again.

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.

Masquerading in the attire of the opposite sex was a criminal offense, except on Halloween.

Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

Australia has produced amazing costume designers that are unheralded.

I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.

It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to fashion in a way that might be new and different.

When you have that fake beard and stuff stuck on your face, you can't move your face. It's just not fun.

I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit.

When you are the kid of an actor, it's always a very inviting world. Everyone is nice to you, the hair and make-up people braid your hair and play with you, and the costume department makes outfits for your teddy bears.

They picked up a beard at a theater costume shop and applied it with rubber glue that was making Sloane's skin itch. Jenkins had

Every Tuesday by decree of the empress, men would attend dressed as women and women would dance dressed as men.