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graceandfamily · 9 months
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Grace Kelly, Van Johnson and Gladys de Segonzac, costume designer. Gala evening, Cannes Film Festival 1955. Photo by Edward Quinn.
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totheroses · 2 years
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Audrey Hepburn being fitted by Hubert de Givenchy for her film Funny Face, 1956. Photographed by David Seymour.
Audrey knew of Givenchy's reputation - she followed fashion with the same intensity that some sports fans devote to baseball. In fact, Hubert had first come to her attention two years earlier, when he was still an apprentice at the house of Schiaparelli, and she was in the South of France filming the light European comedy Monte Carlo Baby.
Her heart raced. Eight years before, in Holland during the war, she had been wearing homemade clothes, and now she was about to enter the rarified world of haute couture, where an embroidered blouse cost $3,000. It was almost too much to imagine.
It was time. Audrey was nervous about meeting Givenchy but forced herself past her fear. She straightened her shoulders and lifted her head, pulling herself up from the base of her spine as learned in ballet class, making herself appear taller than her five foot seven inches. A doorman pushed open the heavy glass door to the atelier. "Mademoiselle?" Roman Holiday would not be released in America for a month, so Audrey could walk the streets of Paris - or anywhere, for that matter - unrecognized. She smiled at the doorman and stepped inside. The air was hushed, calm with the fragrance of full-blown white lilies. Surely nothing bad could ever happen there.
'I'm here to see Monsieur Givenchy, please."
"Qui, Mademoiselle," the doorman said, and motioned for her to go upstairs. With a short skip, Audrey took the steps two at a time.
Darting up the marble stairs, Audrey had no way of knowing that this seemingly fated fashion meeting with Givenchy almost didn't take place. At first she had considered Cristobal Balenciaga to design her French costumes for Sabrina, but no one, least of all Gladys de Segonzac, married to the head of Paramount's Paris office, who arranged Audrey's trip to Paris, had the audacity to disturb him close to the showing of his collection. Indeed, the loyalty of Balenciaga's followers was so absolute that Mrs. Paul Mellon took to her bed for two weeks, literally, when he announced he was closing his studio in 1968.
Then, Audrey suggested, what about Hubert de Givenchy? Mme. de Segonzac smiled. An excellent idea! It turned out she was a good friend of Hubert's, and offered to make the introduction. Segonzac then called Givenchy and implored him to meet with the young actress. Although he was rushing to prepare his own collection, Givenchy agreed, "One day, someone told me that Miss Hepburn was coming to Paris to select some clothes for her new film. At the time I had never heard of Audrey Hepburn. I only knew of Katharine Hepburn," he remembers. When introduced to Audrey, Givenchy graciously his his disappointment. "My first impression of her was that she was like a very fragile animal. She had such beautiful eyes and she was so skinny, so thin. . . . And no makeup. She was charming."
- Excerpt from Audrey Style (1999) by Pamela Clarke Keogh
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gracie-bird · 3 years
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Grace Kelly and Gordon White (right), chairman of Hanson Industries. Marcel Carné, French film director, in the middle. Gladys de Ségonzac, costume designer (middle). 8th Cannes Film Festival, May 1955.
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hepburny · 6 years
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Audrey’s fashion sense was lauded by Gladys de Segonzac, Funny Face wardrobe supervisor. ‘Audrey can wear anything, with taste and dignity,’ she mused. ‘And her patience in fittings is extraordinary. She can stand for hours at a time, never fidgets, never squirms. You know how tired she must be, but she never mentions it. She makes her changes with amazing rapidity, with never a wasted motion.’
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graceandfamily · 2 years
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Prince Rainier III of Monaco meeting American film Star Grace Kelly (later to become Princess Grace) for the first time at his Monaco Palace in 1955. Here he greets her friend Gladys de Ségonzac, costume designer. Photo by Edward Quinn.
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graceandfamily · 3 years
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Grace Kelly at the Royal Palace just before she met Prince Rainier for the first time. With her is her friend Gladys de Ségonzac (left), costume designer. Monaco, May 1955. Photo by Edward Quinn.
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graceandfamily · 3 years
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Grace Kelly, Cannes Film Festival 1955. On the backseat Gladys de Segonzac, costume designer. Photo by Edward Quinn.
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graceandfamily · 3 years
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Grace Kelly at the Royal Palace just before she met Prince Rainier for the first time. With her is her friend Gladys de Ségonzac, costume designer. Monaco, May 1955. Photo by Edward Quinn.
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graceandfamily · 3 years
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Grace Kelly at the Royal Palace just before she met Prince Rainier for the first time. Colonel Severeac, commander of the palais, greeted her and explained that Prince Rainier was delayed. With her is her friend Gladys de Ségonzac (left), costume designer, who had helped her with the wardrobe on To catch a thief. Monaco, May 1955.
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graceandfamily · 3 years
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Grace Kelly at the Royal Palace just before she met Prince Rainier for the first time. With her is her friend Gladys de Ségonzac (left), costume designer. Monaco, May 1955. Photo by Edward Quinn.
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graceandfamily · 3 years
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Grace Kelly, Cannes Film Festival 1955. On the backseat Gladys de Segonzac, costume designer. Photo by Edward Quinn.
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graceandfamily · 3 years
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Grace Kelly and Gladys de Ségonzac (left), costume designer. Cannes Film Festival 1955. Photos by Edward Quinn.
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graceandfamily · 3 years
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Grace Kelly, Gordon White (left), chairman of Hanson Industries and Gladys de Ségonzac (right), costume designer, on the terrasse of the Carlton Hotel. Cannes Film Festival 1955. Photo by Edward Quinn.
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gracie-bird · 3 years
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Grace Kelly (later to become Princess Grace) at the Royal Palace just before she met Prince Rainier for the first time. Colonel Sèvereac, commander of the palais, greeted her and explained that Prince Rainier was delayed. With her is her friend Gladys de Ségonzac (left), costume designer, who had helped her with the wardrobe on To Catch A Thief. Monaco 1955.
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gracie-bird · 3 years
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Grace Kelly, Gordon White (left), chairman of Hanson Industries and Gladys de Ségonzac (right), costume designer, on the terrasse of the Carlton Hotel. Cannes Film Festival 1955.
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graceandfamily · 3 years
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Grace Kelly arriving at Cannes station 1955.With her is her friend Gladys de Ségonzac who had helped her with the wardrobe on "To catch a thief". Photo by Edward Quinn.
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