Barbie Collector # 20355 Audrey Hepburn

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Even though Helen Rose at Kelly’s studio, MGM, designed the actresses’ wedding dress, Head designed the light grey going-away-suit worn by Kelly for her honeymoon.

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It’s hard to think of many films that have been so extensively broken down into enduring images and echoing symbology, quite independently of its own fandom.The venerable Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris is mounting a breathtaking exhibition dedicated to Barbie. Edithreceived a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1974 and remained working at Universal until her death in 1981. But as the performed it-girl Holly, gradually losing track of her past selves, she’s both movingly fragile – we’d get her wounded wanderlust even if she hadn’t been handed Moon River to sing in a perfect spotlight scene, but it doesn’t hurt – and irresistibly spritzy. Their working relationship developed when Alfred Hitchcock chose them both to work on his 1954 film, ‘Rear Window’, a film that finally allowed Head to design stylish clothes for Kelly in her role asthe fashion model Lisa Freemont.

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I understood, too, why we usually fast-forwarded through Mickey Rooney’s yellowface scenes as Holly’s crotchety Japanese landlord: I had thought them merely an unfunny diversion, though they were certainly that too. Hepburn’s arrival as a star with an Oscar-winning turn in Roman Holiday in 1953 and her subsequent success in Sabrina and Breakfast at Tiffany’s is fleshed out with archive footage and the contribution of friends and family, who keenly provide behind-the-scenes detail.Our all-time classic icons have also gotten the Barbie treatment; Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, and Vivien Leigh have all become collectible Barbies.

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com, Mattel created the Zendaya Barbie because it "commemorates that particular red carpet look where [Zendaya] had a moment of confidence that was so positively received. I just added the Lady Dior inspired bag from the Fashion Royalty Fashion Spectacular accessories set.She suffered massively with insecurities about her looks and with men, and to hear her link them to her relationship with her father and her deep abandonment issues, to hear those intimate details was so strange. My mother’s VHS tape, fuzzily recorded off TV, was plastered in “do not tape over” warning labels, a defence I might have to explain to someone born 10 years later than I was. Edith was loaned to RKO in 1946 onthe insistence of Ingrid Bergman to design costumes for Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Notorious’. Platform boots with rainbow stripes, a bowler hat and sparkling pink sunglasses are colourful allusions to the artist's signature look.

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The movie might have been made in 1995, but thanks to the current obsession with Nineties fashion, we’re still seeing Cher-inspired looks everywhere. Three pieces of this iconic black dress can be found in different places around the world: one is kept in the archive of Givenchy, the other is exhibited in the Museum of Garment in Madrid and the last one was sold at a Christie’s auction for more than 607,000 Euros in 2006. The doll's bomber jacket, which has the name “Elton” stamped on it, has rainbow-striped sleeves and a star-printed hem. Even if our morning outfits are not as eccentric as that of Holly Golightly, this emblematic robe etches in our minds the idea that the “little black dress” will never be out of fashion. One of my personal favourite designs of Head’s is the white satin gown studded with velvet violets created for a seventeenyear old Elizabeth Taylorin ‘A Place in the Sun’(1951).She is dressed in a re-creation of Princess Ann’s costume: a beige A-line skirt worn with a crisp white blouse and finished with a wide buckled belt. Pretty Woman stars Julia Roberts as Vivian, a prostitute who falls in love with rich entrepreneur Edward. But there’s still a tender kind of truth to its sentimentality, and a heartsore vulnerability to Hepburn’s little-girl-lost performance that cuts through the cliche of that very description.