Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium. The daughter of a wealthy English banker and a Dutch baroness. She was born into high society but when the war came many things changed. The Nazi occupation was hard on Audrey and she is said to have suffered from malnutrition, like many kids in those days.
After the war, life for Audrey became better and she attended ballet school. Her parents were now divorced and she was with her mother. She was very graceful, petite and incredibly feminine with a slim build, long neck and tiny wrists and ankles. In that era a woman did not need to be 5’10″ to model and at 5’6″, Audrey Hepburn began modeling. Audrey’s grace made her a natural at it and she was spotted by a producer who cast her in a film.
The first part was a small bit, but she was cast in many more films and became very popular in the U.S. Her grace and understated sexiness made her a star. She was so unlike the curvy sex kittens of the time. Audrey was elegant and refined. Between the 1950′s and 1970′s Audrey Hepburn was very busy making films and in 1993 Audrey Hepburn died of cancer, leaving a legacy of grace and elegance that designers still try to match to this day.
There have been many campaigns that try to capture her look, recently Liv Tyler did an ad for Givenchy that tried to capture Audrey’s spirit. Many Models have tried, but, no model has ever seemed to quite capture that same look.
Here is a photo gallery of Audrey Hepburn and vintage fashion, Audrey was usually in Givenchy.
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