A Slice from Audrey Hepburn's Closet at Sotheby's

A Slice from Audrey Hepburn's Closet at Sotheby's
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Audrey Hepburn style lovers should run, not walk, over to Sotheby's this weekend for a rare chance to see some of her iconic clothes. Whether you fell in love with oversized sunglasses and stretch ski pants because of her look in the opening scenes of Charade or the little black sheath dress because of how she made it young, and not at all for women in mourning, in Breakfast at Tiffany's, you have to have been influenced in some way by her style. As a diminutive (i.e. short) woman, I found the permission to wear flats from her and how she pulled them them with cropped pants and a tight sweater.

Get a sense of her style here:

The clothes at Sotheby's this weekend, which are a selection of thirty six to be auctioned in London on December 8, all have storied designers as well as interesting stories behind them. For example, there's a wedding dress that was designed by the Fontana sisters for a wedding that Audrey cancelled. In a gesture straight out of the movies, the star requested that the designer find a beautiful Italian bride who could never pay for such a gown and give it to her so the dress would not be wasted. After a long and presumably happy marriage, the girl to whom it was given has now decided to let another bride have the chance to be married in the dress.

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