audrey and pet

I want a pet deer like Audrey... but where would you keep it?

funny face

I think that my favourite Audrey Hepburn movie is Funny Face.

I like it so much because it is about an unknown, intellectual girl who works in a bookstore who happens to be discovered by a fashion photographer (Fred Astaire).  

They proceed to dance and sing their way to love.

Audrey also gets to wear lots of pretty couture.

A clip from the film...

HAIR

No, not the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical from the 1960s (which my mom danced in when it was off-Broadway in NYC). My own hair.

Ever since I moved to London the hard water and lack of water pressure has reeked havoc on my hair. When my mom came to visit a month ago she actually told me that my hair had changed color, becoming darker and less shiny. Great. I've also started a new trend of getting mad split ends, not just on the tips, but actually one inch up from the ends. Strange or what. Sadly, I haven't discovered any solutions yet, different shampoos, new and expensive hairbrushes, nothing.

So in the meantime I give myself trims to keep the damage at bay and fantasize about what I will do with my hair once I move to nyc. There are three top choices right now.

1) Keep my hair the way it is and just nurse it back to health with good water, get a water softener if need be, and get monthly trims.

2) Keep my length and dye it a strawberry blonde or just my own hair color plus a bit of red. See below for inspiration.

or 3) Chop my hair off and start from scratch, going for a style circa Audrey Hepburn 1950s/1960s when she had her prixie-ish do. I don't want Natalie Portman's Vendetta cut, but something a bit longer, again see below.

I have some time to think about it, but by the time comes along I know I will have to do something for my poor damaged hair!

tuesday inspiration: audrey et audrey

This week's inspiration partially comes from the fact that I recently watched Hors de Prix, starring Audrey Tautou, a modern (and French) Audrey Hepburn. Both petite yet very feisty and strong minded in the characters they portray, and of course, always elegant.

Audrey Hepburn is constant inspiration for me. What I find most extraordinary about her is that most men that I know are completely infatuated with her as well. What is unique about Audrey, from a Hollywood perspective, is the fortitude of her personal character. Her pre-movies life was extraordinary, descended from British royalty, left by her father (a Nazi sympathizer) in 1935, moved to the Netherlands to flee the Nazis, trained in ballet, her uncle and cousin shot in front of her for being part of the Resistance, after the war moving to Amsterdam and then London where she was encouraged to pursue acting because of her height (5' 7") and malnutrition during the war.

Of course, any Audrey fans know all of her plays/movies that would come afterwards: Gigi (1951), Secret People (1952), Roman Holiday (1953), Sabrina (1954), War and Peace (1956), Funny Face (1957), Love in the Afternoon (1957), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963), My Fair Lady (1964), How to Steal a Million (1966).....




"By the mid-1950s, Hepburn was not only one of the biggest motion picture stars in Hollywood, but also a major fashion influence. Her gamine and elfin appearance and widely recognized sense of chic were both admired and imitated."

















And then beginning with Amelie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) in 2001, Audrey Tautou entered most of our lives (though she was already known to our French friends). As an actress she is very grounded in France, but her charm and wit translates across screens. A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) (2004) is a great love story of patience and devotion. And in typical Audrey style, she starred in a French romcom in 2006, Priceless (Hors de Prix), a story of two stylish gold diggers who fall in love.




















Two lovely ladies with strong spirits, great film characters, and impeccable style.