Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Timeless Beauty Icon: Audrey Hepburn 1929-1993

Ciao fashionistas...All hail the timeless beauty that is Ms. Audrey Hepburn! This is one of the most beautiful and angelic faces of the 20th Century. She graced the silver screen with her gorgeous angular face and large almond eyes in the 1950's. Her ballet like movements and waiflike frame gave you BEAT swan from begining to end in every film. She stormed America and dominated an industry ruled by bleach blonde curvy bombshells. She ruled even when Marilyn was making the men drool. Her elegant and classic european features, chic style, and melodious voice set the stage for what classic and extrordinary talent looked like. As a devoted wife and mother she believed very strongly in family. Her talents didn't stop there though. She devoted her later years to UNICEF as the Ambassador @ Large until her untimely death in 1993 from colon cancer.

Audrey often portrayed the ugly duckling who grows into a swan. To the French novelist Colette, she was the only Gigi worth considering. In the play's 1951 Broadway run, she breathed youthful exuberance in the role of the innocent and gangly courtesan-in-training. For Roman Holiday, she played the princess looking for the comforts of the commoners life. As the lovesick title character in Sabrina (1954), she blossomed from a plain Jane into a French finished sophisticate. In My Fair Lady (1967)-which is my FAVORITE!! movie of all times-she struck a familiar chord by assuming the role of a Cockney street urchin who is transformed into a lady. And in her most pivotal role ever she gave BEAT white fish as Holly Golightly, in the 1961 film of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, Audrey portrayed the high-toned hooker of haunt couture where she rock the sickest Givenchy gown the silver screen ever seen. She was truly the Hollywood heiress of this time.

Well guys there is your mini history lesson for the day. Take a scroll and enjoy the memerizing beauty that is the Queen of American Theater Ms. Audrey Hepburn.





























































~Arrivederci
M. Legend





"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."


~Audrey Hepburn~




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