It's rare that you can say that you own a genuine cultural keystone, an iconic piece of movie history. We can – we own the headband Hulk Hogan wore in his 1991 opus Suburban Commando – but can you?
Chances are you can't, but if you're a tiny woman which loads of money and delusions of being classy, soon you'll be able to. The famous little black dress that Audrey Hepburn wore in Breakfast At Tiffany's is to be auctioned off for charity at the end of the year, and is expected to raise between £50,000 – £70,000. Although why anyone would spend that much is beyond us – it's a 45-year old sliver of material that probably stinks of cigarettes, cats, ukuleles and Hannibal out of The A Team.
There's probably no better way of raising a load of money than to auction off stuff that used to belong to someone dead who used to be famous, and the more famous the better. A John Lennon suit can sell for £66,000, a Jerry Garcia toilet can sell for £40,000 and a load of old Marlon Brando crap can sell for £1.2 million. At the other end of the scale, a kidney stone that's been inside William Shatner's penis will cost just £13,000. But that's all boy's stuff – where are all the auctions for slightly ghoulish women?
That's all about to change with the auction of Audrey Hepburn's iconic black dress from Breakfast At Tiffany's, the film that made loads of women think they were cool if they spoke all la-di-dah like Audrey Hepburn, the film that inspired that fuckawful Breakfast At Tiffany's song from ten years ago, and the film that convinced legions of idiots that Tiffany's was a greasy spoon cafe and not an expensive jewellers.
For Breakfast At Tiffany's, Hubert de Givency was put in charge of Audrey Hepburn's wardrobe, and created the black dress for the opening scene of the movie where Hepburn stumbles out of a taxi stuffing her face with a pastry. The dress has been ripped off countless times by other designers and high street stores, but you'll be able to get your hands on the genuine article on December 5, when it is auctioned off in London to raise an estimated £50,000 – £70,000 for underprivileged people in India.
And least Audrey Hepburn is dead so she can't yank the dress from the auction just before bidding stops, like Britney Spears did with her bra.
Read more:
Hepburn dress in charity auction – BBC
[story by Stuart Heritage]
RC of strangeculture says
Crazy crazy stuff…reminds of marrilyn’s dress from the movie/book “Wonderboys” — watch out what if tobey maguire steals it!!!
Bballgirl101 says
I have been a Audrey Hepburn Fanatic Since I saw My Fair Lady and I have been going around the house singing wouldn’t it be loverly 24/7 and my mom is going nuts i would
absolutely have loved to meet audrey hepburn but unfortunately she died . It would be so cool to have her dress and to know she wore in the wonderful movie breakfast at
Tiffany’s,But it’s just way way too much .
Sincerely bballgirl101
MS. Audrey Hepburn if you want to know badly says
I don’t appreciate you talking a bit “badly” about my film. I believe women who speak “a-la-di-da” like you shruedely commented on was as fake as a Coach bag in Manhatten. And this film was a FILM not a life-lesson. People can pretend to be like Holly or like me, but you can’t infer things from you lowly opinion. Plus that dress is not very “little” as you say, it was extremely tall and hard to walk in thank you very much.
MaiteSaysHi!!!!!!!!!! says
I LOVE AUDRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG I LOVE HER AND IM ONLY 14! SHE IS A LEGEND
AND I LOVE HER FASHION SENSE
S says
The author of this article must think he’s the wittiest person in the world, but the fact is, all he’s doing is bad-mouthing an iconic movie and an iconic actress for no good reason. That movie is a classic and Audrey Hepburn is the epitome of class and style, not only in Breakfast At Tiffany’s, but throughout her whole life. I find your whole article appalling, but I find the part “Hepburn stumbles out of a taxi stuffing her face with a pastry” especially ignorant. If you disliked the movie so much why did you decide to write an article about it? I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that you’re bashing a wonderful actress who has sadly passed away, or comparing that exquisite dress to Britney Spears’ bra.
And by the way, I don’t care that this article was written two years ago, I unfortunately just came across it now and I wish I hadn’t.
emillie xxx says
hiya im 15 an yh ur right she is amazin lol im goin as ger for my prom carnt wait iv got the dress lol xxx thx