The cover of this week's ES magazine celebrates the auction of what is a pivotal moment in film and fashion history. There's no arguing about it and it has probably been said a thousand times before so let's just cut to the chase. Audrey Hepburn in THAT Givenchy dress in the opening scene of Breakfast at Tiffany's still floors me everytime. THAT dress has been kindly donated by Hubert de Givenchy himself and will go under the hammer at Christies, South Kensington on 5th December, expecting to reach a price of well over £100,000, to go to the City of Joy Aid.
People like to throw around the word 'timeless' and 'classic' with a lot of things. Like when something is more than about 20 years and somehow that suddenly translates to 'classic'. But those words I think truly apply to this dress. It's ingenius simplicity in that suspension collar and straight sheath shape still looks incredibly to this day. It well and truly is the sort of dress that just doesn't come around that often and I don't agree that Audrey Hepburn's connection with is part and parcel of the appeal of the dress, because the dress in itsef is sublime.
Here's Georgia Frost, my current fave new British face, one of the lucky few who got the opportunity (and has the waist size!) to model the Givenchy dress.
