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Article: The joy of giving back.(EDITOR'S LETTER)(Audrey Hepburn)(Editorial)
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- Town & Country
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- December 1, 2006
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AUDREY HEPBURN was one of the world's most beloved women, admired for her flawless sense of style, her lilting accent, her fine acting talent and her irresistible charm. Our fascination with her never seems to diminish. The most recent example was the advertising campaign for the Gap that used clips from her 1957 movie Funny Face. It was built around the scene in a bohemian cafe in Paris in which the actress does an interpretive dance, and it was intended to reignite an interest in, of all things, skinny black pants (available at Gap stores, of course). Some critics objected, saying the ad cheapened her image. I thought it was whimsical and sweet, and that it might very ...