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Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress

31/3/2021

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Audrey Hepburn did not invent black dress, but no one in the history of fashion is more connected to the Little Black Dress.

In her films,  Audrey Hepburn told us stories of different girls wearing the black dress portrayed by her and touched our heart with every single one of them, the girl and the dress: From the iconic black floor length dress she wore at the beginning of Breakfast at Tiffany's, to the unforgettable short sleeved black dress she wore holding balloons in Funny Face, to the playful sleeveless black dress with tie shoulders she wore in Sabrina, to the sublime black velvet dress she wore in film War and Peace. 

In her life, Audrey Hepburn loved to wear black dresses just as she did on screen, whether they were designed by Hubert de Givenchy or not. Once and again, she showed us how to look eternally elegant in an extremely simple black dress, and made us understand why we think of her when we think of black dress.

Audrey Hepburn alone can be an encyclopedia of the Little Black Dress.

On screen

Film Sabrina(1954)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress in film Sabrina(1954)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress in film Sabrina(1954)
Film War and Peace(1956)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress in film War and Peace(1956)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress in film War and Peace(1956)
Film Mayerling(1957)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress on the set of film Mayerling(1957)
Film Love in the Afternoon(1957)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress: Audrey Hepburn in black dress on the set of film Funny Face(1957)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress: Audrey Hepburn in black dress in film Funny Face(1957)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress: Audrey Hepburn in black dress in film Funny Face(1957)
Film Funny Face(1957)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress in film Funny Face(1957)
Film Breakfast at Tiffany's(1961)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in black floor length dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy, in film Breakfast at Tiffany's(1961)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in black floor length dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy, in film Breakfast at Tiffany's(1961)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy, in film Breakfast at Tiffany's(1961)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy, in film Breakfast at Tiffany's(1961)
Film Charade(1963)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy, in film Charade(1963)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy, in film Charade(1963)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy, in film Charade(1963)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy, in film Charade(1963)
Film How to steal a million(1966)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy, in film How to steal a million(1966)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy, in film How to steal a million(1966)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy, in film How to steal a million(1966)

Off screen

Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress, Paris, France
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress on the set of film Sabrina, 1953
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress on the set of film Sabrina, 1953
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress, photo by Bob Willoughby at Paramount, 1953
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress, Heathrow Airport in London, 21 May 1953.
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress, Heathrow Airport in London, 21 May 1953.
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress, Heathrow Airport in London, 21 May 1953.
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress, photo by Cecil Beaton, 1955
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress, photo by Cecil Beaton, 1955
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress, photo by Jack Garofalo, 1955
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress, 1955
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress, Las Vegas, 1956
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress, Las Vegas, 1956
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in black dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in black dress in her suite at the Hotel Hassler Rome Italy, 1958
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Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Audrey Hepburn in little black dress
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Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head

30/3/2021

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On 15 December 1954 at Criterion Theatre, New York, at the premiere of The Country Girl, Grace Kelly, the star of the film, wore an ice blue French silk satin gown with matching shawl collared coat designed for her by Edith Head. 
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
On 30th March 1955, at the 27th Academy Awards, Grace Kelly won Best Actress for The Country Girl. The award was presented by William Holden. Grace Kelly wore the same ice blue silk gown.
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
A few days later, Grace Kelly would wear the same gown for her photo session of Life magazine, which appeared on the magazine cover of 11 April 1955.
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head: Grace Kelly wearing the gown on Cover of Life, 11 April 1955

The gown

The silk satin gown with its matching coat was designed by Hollywood costume designer Edith Head, According to Elle, Head described the hue as "blue champagne,".
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head: sketch of Edith Head for the gown and matching coat
Grace Kelly only wore the coat for the premiere of her movie The Country Girl, in December 1954. 

The gown is a floor length creation with back train, featuring column silouette, double thin spaghetti shoulder straps and ruffled waist line. It was said to be the most expensive Oscars dress ever made at the time, with the silk alone running $4,000.

And after she wore the blue gown alone at the Oscar Ceremony, 
it went on to become one of the most memorable gowns in Academy Awards history.  
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
Grace Kelly ice blue French silk satin gown for Oscar Ceremony 1955 designed by Edith Head
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Dirk Borgarde,  a campy cat in human form

28/3/2021

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Dirk Borgarde doesn't look his best in suit, the jacket somehow always look a little bit too big and shoulder too wide, the only exception is when he wears military jacket.

But when he wears shirt, sweater, even pajamas, anything with soft or undefined shoulders, Dirk Borgarde shines. He looks relaxed, and beautiful. Like Alain Delon, Dirk Borgarde has that feminine quality which can only be called beautiful, rather than handsome.

​Perhaps it is because of his small head, or because there is an intellectual living in him, who is in harmony with outfits that doesn't restrict thinking.

Dirk Borgarde is a cat in human form, free, and mysterious, even 100 years after he came into our world.
Dirk Borgarde in suit
Dirk Borgarde in shirt
Dirk Borgarde in shirt
Dirk Borgarde in shirt
Dirk Borgarde in sweater
Dirk Borgarde in sweater
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