Chaos in a dress...

Delight in disorder A sweet disorder of the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness...Robert Herrick

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You don’t love me. You just love my brain. Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday (1950) dir. George Cukor

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Audrey Hepburn photographed by Bob Willoughby for Green Mansions, 1958.

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“Everything you have read, heard, or wished to be true about Audrey Hepburn, doesn’t come close to how wonderful she was. There’s not a human being on earth that was kinder, more gentle, more caring, more giving, brighter, and more modest than Audrey. She was just an extraordinary, extraordinary person. Everyone should know that.”

Sam Wasson on Audrey Hepburn

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Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks Jr in “Our Modern Maidens” (1929)

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The Bystander, England, March 15, 1922

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Mary Pickford, Kiki (1931).

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Charlie Chaplin ~ The Pawnshop, 1916

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During the filming of Funny Face, the ‘beatnik’ interlude sequence occasioned a dispute between Audrey and director, Stanley Donen. For her long and complex dance number set in a Paris café, Audrey  was to wear a black sweater and black leotards; to this outfit, she wanted to add black ballet slippers without socks. No, countered Donen, the effect of your dancing will be much diminished — he preferred that she wear white socks, the better to highlight her intricate steps against the dark, smoky background. This was her only dance number without Astaire, and he wanted viewers to see her every move. Audrey was astonished. “Absolutely not!” she cried. “It will spoil the whole black silhouette and cut the line at my feet!” “If you don’t wear the white socks,” Donen replied calmly, “you will fade into the background, there will be no definition to your movement and the dance sequence will be bland and dull.” She burst into tears and ran to her dressing room but later regained composure, wore the white socks, returned to the set and continued. After seeing the rough cut of the sequence, she wrote Donen a note: “You were right about the socks — Love, Audrey.”

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Robert Frank :: New Year, Man with Tulip, Paris, 1950

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Marilyn and Laurence Olivier by Milton Greene in 1956.

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A woman’s dress should be like a  barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. ~ Sophia Loren.

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Shirley MacLean Beaty (April 24, 1934)

If they could see me now, that little gang of mine. I’m eating fancy chow and drinking fancy wine. 

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Holly Golightly: I’ll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead.

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Brigitte Bardot by Cornel Lucas, 1955