Credit: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images Audrey Hepburn, 1953 The legendary actress asked designer Hubert de Givenchy to alter the ivory lace gown from her final scene in Roman Holiday so she could wear it to the Oscars, which felt all the more fitting considering she took home the Best Actress trophy for the role
This makes the skirt rather heavy but it also helps to shape the skirt into a fashionable early Edwardian skirt silhouette
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Specifically, the designer was quoted in a 1997 text by Richard Harrison Martin for the Gianni Versace retrospective exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saying that the eye-popping safety pin dresses in the collection were inspired by the punk subculture (hence the safety pins) and the Indian sari (as seen in the wrap-around design of the silhouette)
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