The movie Love With A Proper Stranger contains one of sweetest, stormiest relationship scenes of all time:
And the pièce de résistance is her single strand of pearls. Natalie Wood was no stranger to pearls… she wore them in movies and in press photos.
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Perhaps in homage after her recent passing, channeling Elizabeth Taylor has become very popular in the fashion community recently. Here, it’s Kate Winslet in V Magazine draping pearls across her face to recreate the front cover shot of Taylor’s book My Love Affair With Jewelry.
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Audrey Hepburn is unquestionably a film, fashion and humanitarian icon, and her outfit in the opening scene of Breakfast at Tiffany’s is rightly celebrated and imitated. The statement pearl choker may be faux, but the sleek black gown, luxuriant upswept hair and enormous glasses all combine to create a vison of glamour at odds with the empty, early-morning streets through which she walks. But it was Hepburn’s languid saunter that sold the image more than anything she wore, and that’s why–in the numerous instances of imitation–they never seem to get it quite right. Audrey always seemed like royalty, even when she was playing a call-girl, which made her casting as Breakfast at Tiffany’s heroine Holly Golightly doubly interesting.
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