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Grace Kelly still reigns as style icon, 25 years after her death
By GINA SALAMONE
Monday, October 15th 2007, 4:00 AM
But to her friends and family, she was so much more - caring mother, loyal girlfriend and stunning style icon. Twenty-five years after a car accident ended her life, the princess is being celebrated in New York with 12 days of exhibits and auctions, starting today.
Her face will also grace the cover of Life magazine, which has devoted an entire issue, on sale now, of its "Great Photographers Series" to the actress-turned-princess. What's more, Town & Country hits stands tomorrow with 30 pages of photos and interviews with Grace's three children and closest friends.
"There are a handful of icons for our readers - by their beauty, charm, elegance, being extremely accomplished, well-dressed or well- spoken," says Town & Country editor in chief Pamela Fiori. "Grace was somebody who embodied almost all of it. She was the original fairy tale."
The princess, born to a well-off family in a Philadelphia suburb, starred in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" and, alongside Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, in the musical "High Society."
"Everybody thought that that's what she was going to continue to do in her life and probably marry a movie star," Fiori says. "And she fooled everyone" by meeting Prince Rainier III "and moving to a whole other life."
After their 1956 wedding, the prince banned all of Grace's movies from being shown in Monaco. The 26-year-old never returned to acting and settled into family life.
Fiori met with Grace's son, Prince Albert, in Monaco and sat down with several of the princess' friends.
"I was surprised to know that she had the sense of humor that she did," Fiori says. "That was one of the things that almost everybody remarked about, that she was very funny. She would sometimes mimic people."
Princess Grace "was in a very protective environment. That could not have been easy for an American girl who had become a movie star and could roam where she pleased and do what she wanted and date the men that she was interested in. This was a situation where she was like Rapunzel, so she needed a sense of humor."
But Rita Gam, an actress who roomed with Grace in Hollywood, told Fiori that the princess was also incredibly stable, which helped her deal with her drastically different life.
While at Monaco's palace, Fiori got a look at the storage room that holds the princess' leather gloves, hats, turbans, sunglasses and dresses.
click here for watch the photo gallery
By GINA SALAMONE
Monday, October 15th 2007, 4:00 AM
But to her friends and family, she was so much more - caring mother, loyal girlfriend and stunning style icon. Twenty-five years after a car accident ended her life, the princess is being celebrated in New York with 12 days of exhibits and auctions, starting today.
Her face will also grace the cover of Life magazine, which has devoted an entire issue, on sale now, of its "Great Photographers Series" to the actress-turned-princess. What's more, Town & Country hits stands tomorrow with 30 pages of photos and interviews with Grace's three children and closest friends.
"There are a handful of icons for our readers - by their beauty, charm, elegance, being extremely accomplished, well-dressed or well- spoken," says Town & Country editor in chief Pamela Fiori. "Grace was somebody who embodied almost all of it. She was the original fairy tale."
The princess, born to a well-off family in a Philadelphia suburb, starred in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" and, alongside Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, in the musical "High Society."
"Everybody thought that that's what she was going to continue to do in her life and probably marry a movie star," Fiori says. "And she fooled everyone" by meeting Prince Rainier III "and moving to a whole other life."
After their 1956 wedding, the prince banned all of Grace's movies from being shown in Monaco. The 26-year-old never returned to acting and settled into family life.
Fiori met with Grace's son, Prince Albert, in Monaco and sat down with several of the princess' friends.
"I was surprised to know that she had the sense of humor that she did," Fiori says. "That was one of the things that almost everybody remarked about, that she was very funny. She would sometimes mimic people."
Princess Grace "was in a very protective environment. That could not have been easy for an American girl who had become a movie star and could roam where she pleased and do what she wanted and date the men that she was interested in. This was a situation where she was like Rapunzel, so she needed a sense of humor."
But Rita Gam, an actress who roomed with Grace in Hollywood, told Fiori that the princess was also incredibly stable, which helped her deal with her drastically different life.
While at Monaco's palace, Fiori got a look at the storage room that holds the princess' leather gloves, hats, turbans, sunglasses and dresses.
click here for watch the photo gallery
