It was recently scientifically proved that there has never been a woman in the history of planet Earth that, at some point in their lives, didn't want to be Audrey Hepburn, including people who died before Audrey Hepburn was even born.
It's Audrey Hepburn's enduring appeal that has ensured that people are still prepared to fork over vast craploads of money for dresses that Audrey Hepburn wore in her films. This week the pink dress that Audrey Hepburn wore in the part of Breakfast At Tiffany's when she realises that her brother died was auctioned off for $192,000 – more than six times what anyone expected. It just goes to show, you can't buy class. But you can buy a dead lady's clothes for moronic sums of money because she was contractually obliged to appear in a film where she played a character who was cartoonishly classy once.
Breakfast At Tiffany's has given the world more than most other movies could ever dream of. Moon River. Pre-A-Team George Peppard. That song called Breakfast At Tiffany's that was rubbish. People thinking that Tiffany's serves food. But more than any of that, Breakfast At Tiffany's gave women of the world a pervasive sense of cosmopolitan style that's been copied by TV shows like Sex And The City – TV shows that have inspired adverts about shitting middle-aged women. So basically Breakfast At Tiffany's invented women that shit. We should have just said that to begin with.
And Breakfast At Tiffany's has never been more popular. The comparatively recent Oscar success of Capote meant that people all over the world could scratch their heads and say "That funny little man wrote Breakfast At Tiffany's? I'm not sure what to think about that. But, look, aren't the dresses lovely."
The dresses that Audrey Hepburn wore in Breakfast at Tiffany's have never been more sought after either. Last December the world famous, iconic black cocktail dress that Audrey Hepburn wore in Breakfast At Tiffany's sold at auction for $410,000 – and now the far less famous, hardly iconic at all pink dress from the part of Breakfast At Tiffany's that most people can't even remember has sold at auction for crazy money too, as MSNBC reports:
A pink cocktail dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” was auctioned Wednesday for nearly $200,000 — more than six times what the auctioneers expected. The sleeveless dress, worn for the scene in which Holly Golightly discovers her brother has died, sold for $192,000 to a private European buyer at Christie’s sale of film and entertainment memorabilia. The auction house said it had expected the dress to sell for as much as $30,000.
All of this hungry buying-up of clothes people wore has started something of a stampede, with literally every piece of clothing worn during Breakfast At Tiffany's being chucked up for auction. Soon you'll be able to buy the orange coat that Audrey Hepburn wore in the movie for about a nanosecond, the headscarf Audrey Hepburn wore when she sang Moon River and whatever the hell it was that Mickey Rooney wore in his splutteringly racist portrayal of that Japanese bloke that Audrey Hepburn lived quite near to.
Us? We're hanging on until someone skins George Peppard and puts that up for auction. Our sofa needs refurbishing, see.
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