Audrey Didn't Follow Fashion

Audrey Hepburn is a classic example of a woman
who wore what suited her throughout her life,
fashion trends be damned. 

Audrey Hepburn wore simple shapes, often in dark colours, with simply styled hair and the eyeliner that highlighted her characteristic ‘doe eyed’ look. Her look evolved subtly over her life, but she was always recognisably herself.

Look at any acclaimed style icon and you’ll see a similar pattern: they find what suits them and stick with it. From Marilyn Monroe’s overt sex appeal to Grace Kelly’s regal chic or Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ feminine but untouchable look, the people who are lauded for their taste long after their death are the ones least susceptible to jumping on unflattering fashion trends.

It’s ironic that the people paid to sell fashion trends so often reference the look of women who dressed consistently throughout their lives to do so — and a lesson that a constantly-changing wardrobe might not be completely glamorous after all.

– extracted from a column written by SARA IN NYC