Where to buy breakfast at tiffanys dress

In interviews she described him as She credited him with providing her with a look that gave her the confidence to act It was Then the rest wasn't so tough anymore.

Givenchy's lovely simple clothes [gave me] the feeling of being whoever I played Givenchy and Hepburn first met in , when she was, as she described herself She had just completed her first big film Roman Holiday which was still unreleased, and was about to begin her next, highly significant, follow-up film Sabrina.

Although it was Billy Wilder who told the legendary Hollywood wardrobe diva Edith Head, that Hepburn was to be sent overseas to buy original couture from a Parisian designer for the film's title role, the idea for this had according to Wilder, come from Audrey herself.

She told a journalist on the set of Sabrina I love them to the point where it is practically a vice Three years older than Hepburn, at 26, Hubert de Givenchy was in Hepburn's view the Perhaps not surprisingly, when Givenchy was told that 'Miss Hepburn' had arrived in Paris and wantd to see him - he had assumed that it was Katharine Hepburn. Frantically busy with his forthcoming new collection, his initial reaction to Audrey's request to help with her next film, had been to decline.

However, he found himself charmed by Audrey. Dreda Mele, the directrice of Givenchy at the time, who witnessed Audrey's first meeting with Givenchy, described how Hepburn She was 'lumineuse'-radiant, in both a physical and a spiritual sense Though she came to Givenchy out of the blue there is no doubt they were made to meet.

Audrey was always very definite in her taste and look. She came to him because she was attracted by the image he could give her. And she entered that image totally. She entered into his dream, too Something magic happened. Suddenly she felt good - you could feel her excitement, her joy" Their resulting collaboration was a triumph. Ernest Lehman, who revised the screenplay during the troubled shooting on Sabrina , described how Audrey's flawless Givenchy wardrobe set her style for the rest of her career The way Audrey looked in 'Sabrina' had an effect on the roles she later played.

It's fair to say that if she had never gone to Paris she wouldn't have had that role in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' According to Hubert de Givenchy the dress in this lot is one of three made for Audrey Hepburn, for what can be described as her most captivating and acclaimed role as the provocative and Holly Golightly in Breakfast At Tiffany's. One of the three is presently in the Givenchy archives in Paris, this dress came from Givenchy's own private collection, and the third is part of the collection of the Museum of Costume in Madrid.

It is normal practice for several examples of a film's leading star's key costume to be made. De Givenchy for Breakfast At Tiffany's. During the movie, she explains that her early morning trips to Tiffany after a night of partying are her antidote to the periodic panic attacks she calls "the mean reds". Hepburn's son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, wrote: "Every actor has a film whose chemistry is so strong that it is forever a reference point in their career.

Breakfast At Tiffany's would be it for my mother. The collaboration between Hepburn and Givenchy had begun eight years earlier when she was sent by her Hollywood studio to Paris to commission the designer of her choice to create her wardrobe for another film, Sabrina.

But it was not until he sat down to create the dress worn by Hepburn's eccentric high-class escort girl in New York that the relationship reached its zenith. De Givenchy said in a recent interview: "It was a perfect dress for her. The garment, which was recently worn by the current Hollywood darling, Natalie Portman for a cover of Harper's Bazaar magazine, has a thigh-length split similar to that worn by Hepburn on the famous poster for the film, complete with a string of pearls, beehive and a cigarette holder.

The remaining two dresses that were used in the film are being kept. One is in the Givenchy company's own archives and one is in a costume museum in Madrid. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today.

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