Welcome to Pure Class (audrey-hepburn.us) a tribute archive site dedicated to the classy iconic actress Audrey Hepburn. Here at this site you will find all sorts of vintage classic photos pertaining to Audrey's movie career, photoshoots , magazine scans, captures, media, and plenty of information on the icon herself. I hope you enjoy your stay and return again soon.

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“She didn’t live a life secluded or behind bars; she would walk around and everybody knew her. She was part of the city. The majority of these photos are in the streets,” Audrey Hepburn’s son Luca Dotti tells Vanity Fair’s Laura Jacobs about the time his mother spent in Rome. To prepare for his new book Audrey in Rome, Dotti gathered some 2,500 photos from the archives of the Reporters Associati that capture his mother throughout the Eternal City. Dotti says what struck him the most was that “even in these candid shots she was always herself—perfect.”

Reflecting on his mother’s signature style, evidenced in many of the images in the book, Dotti remembers that scarves were her vice. “Well, it wasn’t like Imelda Marcos and shoes,” he says. “She had, like every woman, maybe 30 or 40. It was a good way to be in disguise, big sunglasses and a scarf. Occasionally she was able to do her shopping without having all the crowds behind.” Hepburn’s iconic look was, according to her son, what she thought of as “a good mixture of defects.” Dotti explains, “She thought she had a big nose and big feet, and she was too skinny and not enough breast. She would look in the mirror and say, ‘I don’t understand why people see me as beautiful.’ ”

He also remembers that aging never scared Hepburn. “She was always a little bit surprised by the efforts women made to look young,” Dotti recalls. “She was actually very happy about growing older because it meant more time for herself, more time for her family, and separation from the frenzy of youth and beauty that is Hollywood. She was very strict about everybody’s time in life.” Though, adds Dotti, “The only big regret I have, and she would have had, is not knowing her grandchildren. Because she would have been a fantastic grandmother—cooking cakes, keeping the grandchildren on every occasion, and telling them stories.”

Of his parents’ marital struggles, Dotti says, “This is a speculation I’m making, but also a fact. She was 40 [when she married] but at the same time so much older than 40 because of all the success and history behind her. And my father was 10 years younger. To be around a woman who has been an icon for many years, and you’re a young doctor, for a man it makes a difference. If that equation was reversed, if my father was the one 10 years older and a little bit more secure, it would have probably worked out better.”

When asked in what way his mother remains most physically present in his life, Dotti says, “Through scent.” Not perfume, but “the light sensation of a smell,” Dotti says his mother preferred. “We joked a lot together about the fact that both she and I have a very good sense of smell. So there are certain scents, you know, a certain cake, or a flower, things like that. It’s not so physical, but it’s powerful. And every spring, especially here in Rome, you have this smell of orange blossom in the air. Spring is coming and it was her favorite season. It makes me think of her.”

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I have added 411 dvd captures of Audrey from The Children’s Hour.

She captivated the world with her doe-eyed beauty, but behind the Givenchy glamour, there was an Audrey Hepburn few people knew.

She thought her nose too big, her feet too large and her neck too long. She loved to shop for groceries (but not clothes), didn’t wear makeup at home, never went to the gym and enjoyed two fingers of Scotch every night.

“She was not this ethereal creature,” says Robert Wolders, 76, the Dutch actor who was her companion for the last 13 years of her life. “She was an earthy woman with a ribald sense of humor.”

What Hepburn had, adds Wolders, “was more than beauty. It was this extraordinary mystique.”

Hepburn left Hollywood at age 34 at the height of her fame, moving into a 1732 farmhouse in Tolochenaz, a small Swiss village, where she found happiness raising two sons and purpose in her charity work for UNICEF.

Two decades after her death from abdominal cancer at 63 on Jan. 20, 1993, her children and her last love remember the Audrey they adored.

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Oh wouldn’t it be loverly … to look like the beautiful late actress Audrey Hepburn? Nicole Kidman pulled that off over the weekend at Derby Day at a racetrack in Melbourne, Australia.

Kidman, 45, wore a black-and-white outfit that the Daily Mail says was designed in honor of a famed look Hepburn wore in the 1964 film “My Fair Lady.” Among the eight Oscars that film won was one for costume design.

“It’s inspired by ‘My Fair Lady,’” the Daily Mail quotes Kidman as saying. “It’s one of my favorite movies. We decided to do something that was fun and a bit different.”

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Cue the little black dress and the carefree attitude. A new play based on “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” headed to Broadway in February. “Game of Thrones” actress Emilia Clarke will star as good-time girl Holly Golightly, the character created by Truman Capote in his 1958 book and made famous by Audrey Hepburn in the classic 1961 film. Tony-winning playwright Richard Greenberg is taking the story of Holly — a young woman with passion and a past — from page to stage. “The goal of this version is to return to the original setting of the novella, which is the New York of the Second World War,” Greenberg noted, adding that the story “has a drive that makes it very alluring to dramatize.”

The tone of the play, he added, will be “ stylish and romantic, yes, but rougher-edged and more candid than people generally remember.”

Paul Schiraldi/Paul Schiraldi Photography Emilia Clarke in HBO’S ‘Game of Thrones’

Speaking of rough, Greenberg’s take isn’t the first time Broadway has flirted with “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” In 1966, Mary Tyler Moore played Holly in a musical version that never officially opened. British director Sean Mathias will helm the new play.

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On the newest cover of Entertainment Weekly, “30 Rock” heroine Tina Fey makes Audrey Hepburn her muse, channeling Holly Golightly’s signature look from “Breakfast At Tiffany’s.”

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Since retiring from haute couture in 1995, Hubert de Givenchy has led a mostly private life immersed not in fashion, but in the art world. (He’ll be showing a collection of his 17th and 18th-century bronze and marble sculptures at Christie’s during the upcoming Paris Biennale.) But in a recent interview with Speakeasy, he made time to discuss his friendship with style icon Audrey Hepburn, whom he met in 1953 on the set of “Sabrina.” Though he was expecting the more famous Katherine Hepburn instead, de Givenchy and Audrey sparked a close rapport until her death from cancer in 1993. Below, read an interview with de Givenchy on his first meeting with Hepburn, her work with Unicef, and his final memories of her.

WSJ: What was your first impression of Hepburn? You met her before she was famous.

Hubert de Givenchy: There are hundreds of memories. In 1953, they needed dresses for “Sabrina.” Audrey asked me to see her and she arrived in the studio. It’s not that I was disappointed [to not meet Katherine Hepburn]. She was ravishing. But she was dressed in a way that surprised me: small pants, ballerina flats. I asked myself ‘Who is this young lady?’ We liked each other immediately. I was in the middle of making the collection, so I couldn’t make dresses [for “Sabrina”] rapidly enough. I didn’t have the time. We spoke and I said “Unfortunately, I cannot do dresses for you. It’s not possible.” She said, “Can I see the dresses?” I said “Sure.” We showed them to her. There were fifteen or so dresses for her to try on very quickly. She saw the first and said, “This is exactly what I need.” We made the dresses. The film came out. It won an Oscar for the dresses but I didn’t get any credit. She was furious. She demanded “Each time I’m in a film, Givenchy dresses me.” Read the rest of this entry »

It’s easy to associate Audrey Hepburn with nothing more than a demure up-do and an absurdly long cigarette holder, but fans of the actress know she lived a varied life. Before she ever assisted impoverished countries or charmed audiences with her “funny face,” she was a young, aspiring ballerina growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland.

Hepburn’s acting debut occurred after she was spotted by author Collette, and cast as the star of the author’s story (in the Broadway play), “Gigi.” But she was known for more than her acting, which won her a plethora of awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actress for “Roman Holiday.”

Often donning the French brand Givenchy, she was, and still is, often lauded for her stand-out attire.

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I have uploaded these to the gallery for quiet sometime, but I just forgot to post an update about it. I’ve added 532 dvd captures of Audrey Hepburn from The Nun’s Story.