Word: hepburn
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...first time a major trend began on the obituary pages. Last year's fashion spreads offered up the usual chaos: butt-high skirts, little-girl looks, underwear as outerwear, fake furs, fake feathers, fake everything. But the death of Audrey Hepburn and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis inspired exhilaratingly lovely retrospectives, in magazines and on television, that lasted for weeks. These women always managed to be both sexy and classy-at a grand ball, on horseback, impersonating royalty or playing First Lady to the chandeliers. They had the combination of vitality, faultless grooming and alluring clothes that add up to glamour...
...lifelong love affair, it didn't start well. When the young designer, scrambling to finish a collection in 1954, was told that an actress named Hepburn was calling to see him, he assumed it was Katharine. The ingenue from Hollywood had wanted her costumes for Sabrina to be made by Paris' reigning couturier, Cristobal Balenciaga, but the great man turned her away. The rejected muse then turned to another, younger designer, and it was rare affection at first sight. Eventually she called him her greatest friend, almost like a psychiatrist. He referred to her as a sister. Audrey Hepburn...
...almost see them today as benevolent ghosts strolling along most of the world's runways. Hepburn died in 1993. In March, Givenchy showed his final fall collection in Paris before retiring. The collection was both meticulous and harmonious, reflecting the standards of luxe and craft he has always pursued. Many of 1995's fashion heroes, including Lagerfeld and Versace, took their inspiration from Givenchy. Stung by the consequences of forays into ugliness, they turned to a designer who has always brought grace and charm alive...
...chAteau near Chartres and gardens on a grand scale. He makes the rounds of his clients' weddings and christenings, for they are friends too. These women are concerned with details most people have not dreamt of: the sleeve, the lace, the length of the train. One trait he and Hepburn had in common was their intense concentration on perfection. They could learn more from the mirror than common eyesight could perceive...
...inferior. Mention of these actors is tantamount to violating a sacred taboo. When I mentioned Jim Carrey's name in one conversation, for example, the shaman of the tribe spit three times and walked away. It took many gifts of Alfred Hitchcock video-tapes and props from old Hepburn-Tracy movies to appease him. I was forced to flee the community for good when I inadvertently mentioned the films of Jerry Lewis...