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nice question I would love to know Cat's name as well
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Tiny bit of a correction (because I work as a print editor and wouldn't have a job if I weren't a perfectionist about spelling, although I've written a few doozies in my time), the designer was named Hubert de Givenchy.
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Go to Wikipedia... and you'll find out about the House of Givenchy.... and you'll learn quite a bit about why he considered her to be the greatest model of his clothes that ever existed. Better yet, although Hubert de Givenchy is no longer with us, (nor is my favorite actress.. . Audrey Hepburn), her movies are timeless and will only ever win converts throughout the ages to her sense of style, her innate sweetness, and -- if you do just a little bit more research into the tragedies she saw first-hand as a child living in Brussels under Nazi rule, then discover how she became the first UNICEF Children's Ambassador, the story of an almost-royal turned woman-who-hugged-starving-children-in-Ethiopia's-worst-famine might... just might... bring a moistening to your tired, post-shockable Internet-viewing eyes. (Oh, yeah, and she was such a good actress that, in her first big film, Roman Holiday, her big-name co-star, Gregory Peck (himself a bit of a nice person!!!) refused to take first billing but insisted that he would only take second billing if first billing on all of the ads for the movie (movie posters included, since that was unquestionably the era of amazing movie posters as ways to bring audiences to the theaters!!!) gave "Introducing Audrey Hepburn" the starring role. |
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Today is Audrey's birthday! Happy Birthday to the classiest lady of all time!
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I had a slideshow on my old laptop of things that Audrey had to say about beauty (maybe someone here still has access to it?!? -- it was in .wvg, so it's... not supported anymore by my current devices):
It said things like how a smile was the sort of gift that was free, but also that it paid dividends in the smiles one receives in return. It said things like how a smile from a child (particularly one suffering -- and only God knows just how many smiles she received from children who were on the verge of starvation!!!) was like a gift from God, so that returning such a smile made her feel like she was beautiful in ways that the Red Carpet never could. She was born into nobility (on her mother's side), into poverty (because of Hitler), into grace (because she used ballet to escape the privations of starvation and poverty under Hitler), but, most of all, I think she was born into a sense of Grace that comes from the farthest reaches of the ether, and that film merely captured moments in her life as a way of encouraging the rest of us to love our own "funny face." |
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This is unquestionably TMI for me to feel comfortable saying this, but I know precisely how her little black dress differed from any before or ever since, and it (just to make it sound as boring as possible, lol) all has to do with how the facing around her neck took the place of bust darts, which was only possible for her because she... wasn't busty....
She had the perfect proportions for Hubert de Givenchy to have chosen her as his fashion muse, since she had an hourglass figure that didn't have enough of a bust to cause trouble with the darts (and, unless you are top-heavy, you won't understand why that can be a problem, but I've sewn for both, and it's a heck of a lot easier, which explains why it's easier to buy ready-to-wear if you're not busty).... And then he went on to design almost every single piece of clothing in which she was a leading lady... up until the female successor to his "house" decided to wear a bateau-necked wedding gown for a royal wedding.... But Megan doesn't quite have Audrey's shoulders from Funny Face, (plus there was an emphasis on... discretion for a royal wedding?!? so it seems as though (watch the actual movie to see Audrey in a gorgeous lace gown with a bateau neckline that isn't being constantly referenced) (but I'm actually thinking of the dress she wore for her photoshoot as a bride, which seems to have become verboten online, lol, now that it's so relevent) that Megan went for a look that was almost funny in terms of how her kimono-shaped sleeves revealed almost none of her shoulder-blades.... But, please, just don't let me get started on that gorgeous gown from Sabrina, since I don't think I've ever seen anything more beautiful -- and I embroider, but that gown was so far beyond Haute Couture that I simply don't have words for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrin...rn-Sabrina.jpg let alone how the skirt hugged her hips, with the back peplum of hand-embroidered fabric making her look like a goddess.... I kinda tend to like to gulp down embarrassing amounts of photos of gorgeous clothes made with the sort of fabulous silks, satins, and beautiful linens, cottons, and the woolens she tended to wear as though they were "normal" clothes for her, but, given that I also embroider, I know that her clothes didn't just look good because they fitted her perfectly: they fitted her perfectly because the artists who made them for her fitted them to her perfectly. So here's to a new princess, who will probably want to set her own standards of beauty, but... isn't that what every woman should strive for?!? Quote:
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love the RH gif!
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It was the perfect movie
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My favorite Hepburn movie and performance: Wait Until Dark
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I like that one too, even though there are some questionable loopholes.
It would be scary for her alright in that position. And the villain was pretty merciless! __________________
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Alan Arkin was incredible and Audrey was very believable as a blind person. The whole movie centralized the claustrophobic atmosphere so well.
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Wait Until Dark is AMAZING! It is one of Audrey's best performances.
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sadly, i have never seen Wait Until Dark. can you believe that?! for some reason, i have always been drawn to her 50s and 60s career, and forget about that one. i shall add it to my summer to-do list. sorry, Audrey.
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Have you seen it yet?
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