Ava Gardner #1

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People Magazine from 1982
Ava is sensitive about her plump, ravaged appearance in previous films. "It's fine being stared at as a pretty girl, but not as a freak. When I tried to make myself ugly, they said, 'Oh, she's lost her looks,' " she rationalizes. "They weren't thinking of me as an actress. I wasn't allowed to be unattractive." Priest finds Ava looking her best in a decade. "I was born with good health and a strong body and spent years abusing them," she laments. "Now I spend a lot of time taking care. I go on tremendous health kicks—exercise, yogurt, no booze. Of course," she adds, brandishing a king-size Winston, "I smoke too much." She walks Morgan briskly six times a day and periodically checks into health farms. "Without shame," Ava allows, "I say that I happen to be an extremely beautiful woman at any age."

 

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The House of Creed is the world's only privately held luxury fragrance dynasty, founded in 1760 and passed from father to son since then, serving more than 11 royal houses and the public for 246 years. It was so famous in fact, that legendary beauty Ava Gardner would wear no other perfume but Creed for many years. In fact, the scent, Fleurs De The Rose Bulgare was specially created for her in 1948 Creed Fleurs de The Rose Bulgare is a combination of cool rose and green tea with fiery, tempestuous notes of Sicilian mandarin, Italian lemon and Spanish bergamot.

 

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In 1948, the venerable British perfume house Creed made “Fleurs de The Rose Bulgare” for Ava, and while this may not have been the first celebrity licensing perfume deal, it had to be one of the first in the modern era. But Fleurs de The Rose Bulgare seems very unlike Ava. It’s a clean, lemony rose with lots of other citrus notes.

Now, it’s quite possible that Ava wore this; who wouldn’t wear a perfume created especially for her? But, knowing what we know about her, it is somewhat difficult to believe that she wanted to smell like an English rose garden.

 

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The Guardian
As an impressionable child I watched a film called The Bare- foot Contessa. In one scene, Ava Gardner does a devastatingly sexy dance with a gypsy boy. She wears a pencil skirt, wide belt, tight sweater and heels. This simple outfit was stunning a nd inspiring; Gardner was all woman and proud of it, with no naked flesh necessary to underline the point. I naively thought that when I grew up I, too, would suddenly slip on this mantle of womanhood and become like Ava.

 

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Temperley: London-based designer Alice Temperley named her dresses and daywear for Hollywood screen sirens of the 1940s and she successfully recreated the glamour of the era.

The black Olivia de Havilland dress and a jacket with sequins around the collar would be a welcome addition to the red carpet anytime, as would the ocean-blue Ava Gardner gown, with its gathered bust and V straps. A leather jacket named for Vivien Leigh had quilting on the cuffs and around the waist and was very chic.

 

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In contrast, Louis Verdad embraced modern feminity with sherbet-colored dresses, pencil skirts and large-brimmed sun hats, reminiscent of a time when Ava Gardner ruled Hollywood and the dandy embraced ladylike-glamour.

 

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