The National Arts Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to stimulate, foster, and promote public interest in the arts in addition to educating all people in the fine arts. As a center for the arts located in the heart of New York City , located at 15 Gramercy Park South, the National Arts Club offers more than 150 free, multidisciplinary arts program to the public at large. Those programs include exhibitions, theatrical and musical performance, lectures and readings. The National Arts Club is committed to serving and supporting the artistic community as reflected in it’s collaboration with artists, innovators and thought leaders. The National Arts Club is a haven for the creative and a blessing to all who live in the New York City area.

Having said that, the other evening I covered an event to help support The National Arts Club and it was called A Conversation with Edith Head. Edith Head was Hollywood’s most famous costume designer. Her career spanned fifty eight years of movie making. She dressed almost every major movie star and was known for her straight-cut bangs, dark glasses and tailored suits. Some of the movies for which she created the costumes were The Heiress, Samson and Delilah, All About Eve, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Rear Window and The Sting.

At the end of the day Edith Head received an unprecedented 35 Academy Award nominations and won a record-setting eight Oscars for Costume Design.

Now Edith passed in 1981 but as noted on the website A Conversation with Edith Head, Susan Classoon shares,

“The opportunity to create a theatrical performance based upon the legendary Hollywood costume designer, Edith Head, has been a dream come true. I first got the idea many years ago. I was watching a television biography of Edith Head. I literally did a double take. My physical resemblance to Edith Head was uncanny. The more I watched, the more I knew there was a story to be told.”

And so Susan and her team gave us a stellar experience of what it would be like to have dinner with Edith Head and ask her any questions that we wanted to. Susan Classoon who bears an uncanny resemblance to Edith Head played Edith Head and each table honored one of the movies that she designed the costumes for.

It was a fabulous evening and I learned an awful lot.

So here are some photos from the event.

So check out some of the movies that Edith designed the costumes for and you’ll witness this great designer’s work.