Photos from Edith Head exhibition

On choosing the right type of clothing for your figure: ‘You may not have the most perfect figure in the world, but there’s no reason why you can’t have excellent posture. Gloria Swanson is an excellent example of what proud posture can achieve even for a tiny woman. When she came back to the studio some years ago to make Sunset Boulevard I asked her if she ever minded being so tiny. She flashed her brilliant smile and told me, “Not at all, Edith, because I never think of myself as small. I think tall.”’