How To Create Fabulous Audrey Hepburn’s Black Dress Look

I like to share how to create a fabulous Audrey Hepburn”s black dress look at Breakfast at Tiffany’s in today’s post. Not long ago, I posted How to Incorporate Fashion Icon Audrey Hepburn’s Style Now. Indeed, she is one of my fashion icons. How could anyone not fall in love with her when we see “Roman Holiday” and “Sabrina.” And there goes again when we see “Breakfast at Tiffany,” she shines in her famous black dress.

Her black dress at Breakfast at Tiffany’s made her famous and her little black dress even more famous. The movie made everybody think that they should wear a little black dress.

History of Little Black Dress

Even though Breakfast at Tiffany’s Audrey Hepburn’s fabulous little black dress may be the most talked about, the little black dress started with Coco Chanel. The year 1926 October, when Vogue featured the first “little black dress” designed by Coco Chanel. And year after year, the little black dress evolved.

Then “boom” in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Audrey Hepburn shows up with Hubert de Givenchy’s little black dress, increasing the little black dress’s popularity in the sky. This makes her “little black dress” one of the most iconic clothing items in the history of the twentieth century.

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How to Create Fabulous Audrey Hepburn’s Black Dress Look

In the movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Audrey Hepburn shows up from a cap wearing a simple black dress, long opera gloves, a pearl necklace, and sunglasses. The black dress is indeed effortless and cuts to show her back. Her hair is up. Then she stands before Tiffany’s, starts eating a danish, and looks at the shop.

To create a fabulous little black dress look, you must pay attention to a hair updo, a black dress, a pearl necklace, long black gloves, and shoes. That’s all you need. Let’s look at each area to see how we can create it.

How to Create a Fabulous Hair Look

To create her hairstyle, is likes to get into hair romance. However, I believe in creating her hair up to look; if you have long hair, it’s pretty simple. However, you can use plenty of simple hairpieces to create the look if you don’t. The key is to make your hair updo very voluminous to give height.

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Here is my version of Audrey Hepburn’s hair-up look. Since I have long hair, I put it up and use many rhinestone pins to hold and decorate instead of pearls. Here are some hairpieces you can use if you have short hair.

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Black Dress

As I mentioned early in this article, her black dress was designed by the famous designer Hubert de Givenchy. Unfortunately, he passed away in March 2018. However, his brand name still lives on and is still famous. Indeed, her dress was so popular that everybody wanted a little black dress. Her dress was so popular that it was sold at a 2006 auction for $600,000 US dollars by an anonymous buyer. You can find out more about it.

Here are some of the looks like her black dress you can try on, or if you want to create a modern look, I will go with a shorter version of the black dress or black leather dress.

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Gloves

She was wearing black opera gloves. Breakfast at Tiffany’s was released in 1961, and in that era, long black gloves might have been in fashion. I wear long gloves when the weather is a little chilly or in between season that does not quite need the coat but covers up my arm to keep me warm.

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How to Create Fabulous Pearl Necklace Look

Audrey Hepburn wore a five-strand pearl rhinestone necklace designed by Lane in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. That pearl necklace worked because she wore a simple black dress featured in the poster to promote the film. The necklace was re-commissioned in 2006 by Glenda Bailey, editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, to celebrate her 5th anniversary with the magazine. If you like to get her accessories worn at the movie, here are a couple of kits with all her accessories.

If you want to get pearl necklaces, here are a few you can consider. You can also wear as many pearl necklaces as you want, creating many string pearl necklaces like Audrey Hepburn’s.

shoes

With a long black dress, a pair of black pumps are a good choice, and that’s what she wore. Anything black, maybe a mid-heel, will do it.

How to Create Fabulous Black Dress Conclusion

Audrey Hepburn’s Hubert de Givenchy black dress, specially designed for her for the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s, made everybody should own a little black dress. It became a symbol of simplicity and elegance. Even though time has passed, her black dress remains the most iconic, and her popularity of a little black dress remains. It became so famous and popular; anyone talks about a little black dress, Breakfast at Tiffany’s black dress most likely in conversation.

It might not be as practical in the modern world we wear a long black dress; however, it should be fun and memorable whenever we attend a special occasion event if you like to try Audrey Hepburn’s black dress look. And if you can pull it off, it will be a topic of conversation at that event. Or, you can create your own interpretation of a little black dress. That’s equally good. The beauty of fashion is you create whatever you want. There is no rule about what you have to wear.

In this modern society, we can get lots of help from stores. However, to create the look, you must focus on 5 areas, hair, dress, pearl necklaces, gloves, and shoes. You will be fabulous, Audrey Hepburn!

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