Audrey Hepburn celebrates 60 years as a style icon in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The classic of Blake Edwards taken from the namesake bestseller by Truman Capote. The opening scene with Audrey, in her little black dress Holly Golightly, intent on consuming a croissant in front of the homonymous jewelry store in NY, has entered the collective imagination since its first screening, the October 5, 1961. I costumes of the film, designed by Hubert de Givenchy, bear the signature of Edith Head: the woman with the most Oscars won (8) in the history of cinema.
Candidate to 5 statuettes, Breakfast at Tiffany’s born he won two on music from Henry Mancini including the one for the best original song: the timeless Moon River, written with Johnny Mercer and inserted in the film at the insistence of Hepburn herself.
Thanks to the performance of the socialite with the big eyes of a gazelle, the actress earned her fourth Oscar nomination after the one obtained for the role of the unknown princess in Roman holidays. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 10 curiosities (in the gallery above) about the Hollywood masterpiece. From Capote who imagined Marilyn instead of Audrey to the iconic little black dress worn by the actress who is the same throughout the film, from the star who hated the Danish biscuits from which his character was greedy to George Peppard student of Method acting, a style that did not connect with that of its female counterpart …
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