Audrey Hepburn… Rome… “Her Dolce Vita”…
Audrey… Hepburn‘s…
Amazing… eyes…
Were… gazing at me…
With…
That… look…
From… the cover of one of my favourite magazines…
Vanity… Fair…
I gazed… back…
Something… about Audrey…
A vision of loveliness… of cool elegance…
She forever conjures the ethereal… within me…
Of… love in the afternoon…
Of… Roman holidays…
Back to the days… when I too fell in love with our… “Dolce Vita”…
The… city eternal…
Rome…
Luca Dotti… her son… reminisces about his beloved mother’s… “three decade love affair”… with Rome where she felt at ease and at home… free from the hustle and bustle… “the frenzy and obsession of youth and beauty… that was Hollywood“…
He talks with great tenderness about his “Fair Mother”… of private moments when a photographer took a photo of her near Campo de Fiori on a lazy family day… She loved flowers especially white Petunias… having a gelato with her children… telling them bedtime stories…
He thought her… “perfect”…
She was always graceful… genuine… true to herself.
He quotes her saying…
“I have a… big nose… big feet… flat chest…
I’m not… beautiful… just a mixture of defects“…
How refreshingly… “L-u-v-e-r-l-y”…
Humility… becomes her…
For… only…
The truly beautiful… are that humble…
Unlike… her imitators…
Who are… “faux“… “nouveaux“…
Vacuous…
Audrey…
Is the… genuine article…
A… class act…
A… pearl…
Roman Holiday… filmed in 1953 shortly after WWII… catapulted her to fame…
The… gamin urchin…
Riding on a Vespa… alongside the divine Gregory Peck… all over Rome…
The world… fell in love with…
Audrey… Hepburn…
The rest… is history…
The… nominations…
The… accolades…
The Academy Awards… Golden Globes… BAFTAs… Tony Awards…
The… adulation…
As if all that wasn’t enough… for the sublime Audrey…
She devoted… much of her later life to UNICEF…
Respect…
Audrey… Hepburn…
Chic… beyond words…
Hubert de Givenchy… worshipped her…
Adored… idolized…
She… hypnotized…
Audrey… Hepburn…
The irreplaceable… the unforgettable…
Enchanting… bewitching…
The one… and only…
An icon… a vision…
A… swan…
She… is…
Perfect…
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