Audrey Hepburn
Born on 4th
May 1929 to Audrey Kathleen Ruston and John Victor Hepburn-Ruston in
Brussels, Belgium, she was the only child. Audrey
was and iconic Academy Award-winning actress, fashion model and humanitarian
who had trained in ballet since childhood but had to quit due to malnutrition.
That was not the end but just the beginning of Audrey Hepburn’s life as she
took up acting and rose to her stardom in the film industry. Her bat-wing
brows, bright doe eyes, and brightening broad grin, made her a vivacious girl that
all men fell for. Her chic cap of dark hair and bangs inspires women even now
to line up everywhere for a pixie-cut. Having become Hollywood’s most popular
attraction, Audrey co-starred with Fred Astaire in Funny Face, after which Hepburn
insisted that the Parisian couturier Hubert de Givenchy design all her film
costumes. “His are the only clothes in which I am myself,” she quoted. Later
on, fans eagerly looked to Hepburn’s latest films for inspiration, and thumbed
magazines for glimpses of her clothes. From
black cigarette pants worn with schoolboy pullovers to headscarves worn with
oversize sunglasses, the fads she sparked are just too many. But the most
famous example of the Audrey Hepburn look is the narrow black satin Givenchy
column worn by Holly Golightly, her character in the 1961 classic Breakfast at
Tiffany’s in oversize tortoiseshell sunglasses, a sparkly tiara atop her
chignon, black opera gloves and a long cigarette holder complete an ensemble
that has become an lasting template for sophistication.
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