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Article: AUDREY HEPBURN: THE MODEL OF STYLE AND DESIRE ; A Hollywood fashion icon ++ The bidding frenzy at the auction of a black Givenchy dress, worn in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's, which sold for a record sum at Christie's this week, shows that the mystique surrounding the actress is still present 13 years after her death. By Andrew Gumbel
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 9, 2006
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Ten years ago, Harpers & Queen conducted a poll of the most
fascinating women of our time. Audrey Hepburn came first, even
though she had been dead for three years.
It might be tempting, in our high-speed, skin-deep, media-driven
age, to think of the luminous, elfin figure of Hepburn as a
phenomenon from a distant, even unattainable past.
She came of age, after all, in the 1950s, when movies were in
black and white, innocence was still sold as a commodity to cinema
audiences, and nobody, not even James Dean, used profanity on
screen.
But the fascination clearly transcends that kind of time and
cultural distance. In China, digitally-altered images of her in her
first starring role, in ...