Audrey Hepburn Style
“Through the years Audrey Hepburn has projected an image of style and not of fashion.” - Michael Kors, fashion designer. She was once named one of the ten most fascinating women in the world. Audrey Hepburn seems to have remained in this list, with the original look and style of her own. Back in the 1960’s, Audrey Hepburn style could be compared to the style of Jacqueline Kennedy in the degree of imitation she had inspired. Women followed her every move, while men were hopelessly in love with her. Expressing her view about her own sex appeal, Audrey said: “Sex appeal is something that you feel deep down inside. It’s suggested rather than shown… I can convey just as much appeal fully clothed, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.” Audrey Hepburn Style. Her style as a way of life In her younger years she only wanted to be a dancer. By the standards of her time, she could not manage it. But her dancer’s discipline she had learned, turned her into a wonderful life technician. “Dancers do a lot of technical things out of good habit. When we relax we never get sloppy. In my case that’s because when my ballet teacher, Madame Rambert, would catch us folding our arms or slouching our shoulders she’d give us a good rap across the knuckles with a stick…Dancers learn to feel when their posture is not graceful…” Audrey Hepburn was unique among other actresses in so many ways: in the way she looked and carried herself gracefully, in the way she refused to pose for the cheesecake photos, in the way she viewed her life and her career. In the course of her career she never adopted the life style of an American theatre and movie star. Her focus was mainly on her work and training. She used to say that acting did not come easy to her. When she won her Oscar for “Roman Holiday”, Audrey said: “I believe in fixing a goal for myself and not being diverted in any way from pursuing that goal. I can’t allow this award or all this public acclaim to turn my head or induce me to ease up.” Audrey Hepburn style was in her way of life rather than in her manner to wear her dresses. During filming of “The Unforgiven” Audrey fell from a horse on her back. X rays showed four broken vertebrae, torn muscles in her lower back and a badly sprained foot. Her nurse said she had never had a patient like her in her thirty years practice: she refused narcotics and sedatives, and despite her pain never complained. A friend visiting her in a hospital, described Audrey: “She lay propped up in an immaculate bed in her immaculate bedroom…She wore a snow-white Victorian high-necked nightgown. Her hair was pulled back mirror-smooth into a pony tail and tied with white ribbon to match the white ribbon on her beautifully groomed little Yorkshire terrier. Around the room stood white Limoges vases with white tulips and orchids.”
Audrey Hepburn Style. Her beauty secrets
Her beauty secrets were revealed in a press release of December 29, 1953, where it was mentioned that she did not use a shade of powder and preferred the pale shades of lipstick at all times. She wore almost no jewelry and no furs.
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