What do Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Onassis and Grace Kelly have in common?
Aside from fabulous careers and big black sunglasses, these women exhibited an innate sense of style almost every day of their lives. Jackie O had it even at her husband’s funeral, or walking across the tarmac after a long flight. Audrey Hepburn had it even in the hot and dusty surrounds of Africa as she went about her missionary work. Some of us have it, some of us will have to get up at the crack of dawn and spend several hours of deliberate preparation before we can even approach mimicking it; because true style is not necessarily something that can be bought, contrary to what the fashion industry would have you believe. In fact, the enduring influence of these women is largely due to the fact they rarely followed fashion trends, but rather wore what suited them and made subtle changes to their tailoring over the years to ensure their look was always timeless and elegant. Audrey Hepburn, for example, favoured darker tones. She was once famously reduced to tears during the filming of
