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Great article on Grace's Style from the Daily Mail
Grace Kelly - a legendary fashion icon
By LIZ JONES -
Twenty-five years after Grace Kelly's death, LIZ JONES says the screen icon still casts a spell over the fashion world:
If ever there is a moment in cinema that sums up what it is to be chic, beautiful, immaculately dressed and unbelievably sexy, it is when Grace Kelly announces to a stunned and bemused Jimmy Stewart, in 1954's Rear Window, that she is about to spend the night in his apartment. She unlocks her tiny case and a sheer negligee spills out, like a jack in the box, along with a pair of slippers.
In the film, Kelly plays a fashion model who proudly declares she “never wears the same dress twice”, and her wardrobe for that film is indeed a lesson in elegance: the pale green suit with unfitted jacket, white halter-neck blouse, belt, hat with veil and gloves: perfect career woman attire.
Or how about 1955's To Catch A Thief, in which she rendered Capri pants, head scarves, sunglasses and extravagant jewellery fresh and new. Or Dial M for Murder, in which her entire wardrobe, bought off the peg bar one red lace dress, gets progressively darker and more fitted as the plot thickens.
And while the 1950s might seem a distant decade to look for fashion influences for today's young women, who have neither pointy breasts nor tiny waists, that very decade, along with the “Grace Kelly Look” -- as it was dubbed triumphantly by style bible Women's Wear Daily in 1955, applauding the Oscar winning actresss “fresh type of natural glamour” – is about to enjoy a renaissance.
Come this autumn/winter, exactly 25 years after Princess Grace's premature death in a car crash at the age of 52, that look is well and truly back in fashion.
Born in 1929, Grace Kelly was already rich before she became a film star, thanks to an endowment bestowed on her by her father, Jack, a Philadelphian businessman.
Grace wasn't a debutante, despite what early press releases would have had us believe, but she exuded intelligence and class from every pore.
It was her mother, Margaret, a teacher, who gave her daughter not only her drive and discipline, but also her lithe, ballerina's figure and her love of clothes - especially hats. Oh my goodness, always, always hats, and short, white cotton gloves.
Don't believe me that the ice cool Grace Kelly style is remotely relevant or wearable this autumn? Well, she was the first to wear casual sportswear – simple white shirts, white, stone Capri pants, flat loafers, shirt dresses, safari wear, jeans, headscarves and turbans – and make it instantly and effortlessly fashionable and glamorous. She understood that to wear casual well, she had to have understated make-up, squeaky clean, shiny hair and be impeccably groomed. She also made the soft, tailored tweed skirt suit – seen everywhere on the catwalk for this autumn, from John Rocha to Jil Sander – both sexy and modern. She was - how can I put it? - the ultimate in anti bling; even her beloved simple pearls, which she always wore, are desirable again.
The main lesson we can all learn from Grace Kelly, herself a former fashion model, is how to look ladylike: I can no more imagine her in skinny jeans, wedges and a sequinned floaty top as I can picture her To Catch A Thief co-star Cary Grant in trainers and a hoodie. After what seems like years of the designers insisting we all dress like children in trapeze-shaped shifts, mini skirts and smocks, grown-up tailoring is about (oh, welcome sigh of relief) to make a comeback. Skirts are below the knee, waists nipped in, shoulders broad, and everything is discreet, covered up, classy.
Unlike her blonde bombshell contemporaries (Monroe, Bardot and their ilk), Kelly wasn't overtly sexual (in fact, when she was working as a model one photographer complained she had “no oomph, no cheesecake”).
No, she was a fresh-faced girl next door, refusing calls from studios to enhance her bosom; a clever cover line on Time magazine read: “Gentlemen prefer ladies” , while fashion historian Colin McDowell observed, “Her peerless beauty was more calculated to repel the rude advance than succumb to it.”
Vogue called her “too wholesome to be mysterious”. And this autumn, looking classy and womanly rather than gamine and pre-pubescent is the order of the day.
Grace Kelly also invented the current mania for expensive accessories. She was introduced to Hermes by her friend, the Oscar-winning costume designer Edith Head, while shopping in Paris for the wardrobe for To Catch a Thief. She bought so much in the rue du Faubourg Saint Honore store she ran out of money, prompting Miss Head to announce, “Gloves and shoes are the only things where Grace loses count of money.”
She was also the first to adopt the monster handbag - she carried a giant tote on her honeymoon and days later thousands of copies were being made. As Bronwyn Cosgrave observed in Made for Each Other, her exhaustive history of fashion at the Oscars: “At Hermes, Kelly peeled off her trademark white cloth gloves, slipped in and out of the butter-soft suede models and hand embroidered leathers offered up to her on a silver tray, and became hooked on the label.”
The Hermes saddlebag she carried to conceal her pregnancy bump was named after her and today the Kelly bag still has the longest waiting list in the world, despite prices starting from around £5,000.
Grrace Kelly was also discreet, perhaps because of her shyness. She hated talking about her private life, refusing to give reporters her vital statistics (although we know from her modelling days she was five feet six and a half inches and wore an American size 10, which was then the smallest size that could be bought off the rails) and it is a shame the current It girls in Hollywood – the Lindsay Lohans and Mischa Bartons of this world – haven't followed suit.
The only star I can think of today who comes close to the Kelly mantra is Gwyneth Paltrow, closely followed by Scarlett Johansson, who was recently styled for the Louis Vuitton advertising campaign as a latter-day Grace Kelly, complete with immaculate honeyed chignon.
And although Grace Kelly was a patron of Christian Dior, Cristobal (acute on o) Balenciaga, Chanel, Madame Gres (grave on the e) and Yves Saint Laurent, she was famously loyal to the clothes she bought, and reluctant to throw them away, only purchasing new outfits on a modest scale.
Grace “couldn't drop something just because it went out of fashion, she was very sentimental about her clothes,” recalled actress Rita Gam, a lifelong friend. This autumn, more and more women are moving away from the “wear it and chuck it” mentality of cheap clothing, and instead buying what they love and what suits them - what is ageless and well made and flattering.
Grace Kelly ended her movie career prematurely when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco on April 19th, 1956. Her ivory wedding dress was made by another Oscar-winning Hollywood costumier, Helen Rose of MGM, and was made up of 300 yards of antique Brussels rose-point lace, 25 yards of heavy taffeta, 100 yards of silk net, 25 yards of silk taffeta, with a three-foot train and tulle veil, all studded with pearls, and is now on display in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
I love the detail that for her honeymoon she took seven evening gowns, six cocktail dresses, 16 “day costumes” and numerous suits, coats, furs and hundreds of hats, bags and pairs of shoes, all of which she had packed herself, as well as her black poodle, Oliver. I also love, too, that the white organdie hat she wore on arrival in Monaco, which resembled a giant mushroom or even a flying saucer, was universally panned in the press because it hid her perfect, symmetrical face, and threatened to take wing across the water. It is somehow reassuring to know that the press has always liked to pick apart the attire of celebrities, no matter how elevated they become.
Although Grace Kelly fell out of fashion favour in the Sixties, being far too prim and conventional in her role as wife and mother (although she later fell in love with the brightly coloured clothes by Emilio Pucci, and was known to wear the odd kaftan), she continued to look effortlessly understated, in a way our royal family, even Princess Diana, never quite managed. It is a shame we never got to see her grow old. As the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld said, “I am sure [if she were alive today], even at nearly 80, she would be stunning.” She would indeed. The Grace Kelly Years exhibition is a the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo until September 23, and is set to travel to London next year.
Grace Kelly - a legendary fashion icon
By LIZ JONES -
Twenty-five years after Grace Kelly's death, LIZ JONES says the screen icon still casts a spell over the fashion world:
If ever there is a moment in cinema that sums up what it is to be chic, beautiful, immaculately dressed and unbelievably sexy, it is when Grace Kelly announces to a stunned and bemused Jimmy Stewart, in 1954's Rear Window, that she is about to spend the night in his apartment. She unlocks her tiny case and a sheer negligee spills out, like a jack in the box, along with a pair of slippers.
In the film, Kelly plays a fashion model who proudly declares she “never wears the same dress twice”, and her wardrobe for that film is indeed a lesson in elegance: the pale green suit with unfitted jacket, white halter-neck blouse, belt, hat with veil and gloves: perfect career woman attire.
Or how about 1955's To Catch A Thief, in which she rendered Capri pants, head scarves, sunglasses and extravagant jewellery fresh and new. Or Dial M for Murder, in which her entire wardrobe, bought off the peg bar one red lace dress, gets progressively darker and more fitted as the plot thickens.
And while the 1950s might seem a distant decade to look for fashion influences for today's young women, who have neither pointy breasts nor tiny waists, that very decade, along with the “Grace Kelly Look” -- as it was dubbed triumphantly by style bible Women's Wear Daily in 1955, applauding the Oscar winning actresss “fresh type of natural glamour” – is about to enjoy a renaissance.
Come this autumn/winter, exactly 25 years after Princess Grace's premature death in a car crash at the age of 52, that look is well and truly back in fashion.
Born in 1929, Grace Kelly was already rich before she became a film star, thanks to an endowment bestowed on her by her father, Jack, a Philadelphian businessman.
Grace wasn't a debutante, despite what early press releases would have had us believe, but she exuded intelligence and class from every pore.
It was her mother, Margaret, a teacher, who gave her daughter not only her drive and discipline, but also her lithe, ballerina's figure and her love of clothes - especially hats. Oh my goodness, always, always hats, and short, white cotton gloves.
Don't believe me that the ice cool Grace Kelly style is remotely relevant or wearable this autumn? Well, she was the first to wear casual sportswear – simple white shirts, white, stone Capri pants, flat loafers, shirt dresses, safari wear, jeans, headscarves and turbans – and make it instantly and effortlessly fashionable and glamorous. She understood that to wear casual well, she had to have understated make-up, squeaky clean, shiny hair and be impeccably groomed. She also made the soft, tailored tweed skirt suit – seen everywhere on the catwalk for this autumn, from John Rocha to Jil Sander – both sexy and modern. She was - how can I put it? - the ultimate in anti bling; even her beloved simple pearls, which she always wore, are desirable again.
The main lesson we can all learn from Grace Kelly, herself a former fashion model, is how to look ladylike: I can no more imagine her in skinny jeans, wedges and a sequinned floaty top as I can picture her To Catch A Thief co-star Cary Grant in trainers and a hoodie. After what seems like years of the designers insisting we all dress like children in trapeze-shaped shifts, mini skirts and smocks, grown-up tailoring is about (oh, welcome sigh of relief) to make a comeback. Skirts are below the knee, waists nipped in, shoulders broad, and everything is discreet, covered up, classy.
Unlike her blonde bombshell contemporaries (Monroe, Bardot and their ilk), Kelly wasn't overtly sexual (in fact, when she was working as a model one photographer complained she had “no oomph, no cheesecake”).
No, she was a fresh-faced girl next door, refusing calls from studios to enhance her bosom; a clever cover line on Time magazine read: “Gentlemen prefer ladies” , while fashion historian Colin McDowell observed, “Her peerless beauty was more calculated to repel the rude advance than succumb to it.”
Vogue called her “too wholesome to be mysterious”. And this autumn, looking classy and womanly rather than gamine and pre-pubescent is the order of the day.
Grace Kelly also invented the current mania for expensive accessories. She was introduced to Hermes by her friend, the Oscar-winning costume designer Edith Head, while shopping in Paris for the wardrobe for To Catch a Thief. She bought so much in the rue du Faubourg Saint Honore store she ran out of money, prompting Miss Head to announce, “Gloves and shoes are the only things where Grace loses count of money.”
She was also the first to adopt the monster handbag - she carried a giant tote on her honeymoon and days later thousands of copies were being made. As Bronwyn Cosgrave observed in Made for Each Other, her exhaustive history of fashion at the Oscars: “At Hermes, Kelly peeled off her trademark white cloth gloves, slipped in and out of the butter-soft suede models and hand embroidered leathers offered up to her on a silver tray, and became hooked on the label.”
The Hermes saddlebag she carried to conceal her pregnancy bump was named after her and today the Kelly bag still has the longest waiting list in the world, despite prices starting from around £5,000.
Grrace Kelly was also discreet, perhaps because of her shyness. She hated talking about her private life, refusing to give reporters her vital statistics (although we know from her modelling days she was five feet six and a half inches and wore an American size 10, which was then the smallest size that could be bought off the rails) and it is a shame the current It girls in Hollywood – the Lindsay Lohans and Mischa Bartons of this world – haven't followed suit.
The only star I can think of today who comes close to the Kelly mantra is Gwyneth Paltrow, closely followed by Scarlett Johansson, who was recently styled for the Louis Vuitton advertising campaign as a latter-day Grace Kelly, complete with immaculate honeyed chignon.
And although Grace Kelly was a patron of Christian Dior, Cristobal (acute on o) Balenciaga, Chanel, Madame Gres (grave on the e) and Yves Saint Laurent, she was famously loyal to the clothes she bought, and reluctant to throw them away, only purchasing new outfits on a modest scale.
Grace “couldn't drop something just because it went out of fashion, she was very sentimental about her clothes,” recalled actress Rita Gam, a lifelong friend. This autumn, more and more women are moving away from the “wear it and chuck it” mentality of cheap clothing, and instead buying what they love and what suits them - what is ageless and well made and flattering.
Grace Kelly ended her movie career prematurely when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco on April 19th, 1956. Her ivory wedding dress was made by another Oscar-winning Hollywood costumier, Helen Rose of MGM, and was made up of 300 yards of antique Brussels rose-point lace, 25 yards of heavy taffeta, 100 yards of silk net, 25 yards of silk taffeta, with a three-foot train and tulle veil, all studded with pearls, and is now on display in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
I love the detail that for her honeymoon she took seven evening gowns, six cocktail dresses, 16 “day costumes” and numerous suits, coats, furs and hundreds of hats, bags and pairs of shoes, all of which she had packed herself, as well as her black poodle, Oliver. I also love, too, that the white organdie hat she wore on arrival in Monaco, which resembled a giant mushroom or even a flying saucer, was universally panned in the press because it hid her perfect, symmetrical face, and threatened to take wing across the water. It is somehow reassuring to know that the press has always liked to pick apart the attire of celebrities, no matter how elevated they become.
Although Grace Kelly fell out of fashion favour in the Sixties, being far too prim and conventional in her role as wife and mother (although she later fell in love with the brightly coloured clothes by Emilio Pucci, and was known to wear the odd kaftan), she continued to look effortlessly understated, in a way our royal family, even Princess Diana, never quite managed. It is a shame we never got to see her grow old. As the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld said, “I am sure [if she were alive today], even at nearly 80, she would be stunning.” She would indeed. The Grace Kelly Years exhibition is a the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo until September 23, and is set to travel to London next year.
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previews from this book
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TWO of those pics have already been posted. I know because I was the one who posted them a few pages back.
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In honor of the Oscars today, Grace and her little guy.
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Rare pic of wardrobe fitting-Grace is doing a dress test for her Margot character in "Dial M for Murder"
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I don't want to leave anybody out, but nmyngan, kochie332 and scriptgirl, you make this thread absolutely addictive. Thank you, thank you for all your contributions !
The article in the Daily Mail was interesting but confusing, as far as fashion goes. Who truly made capri pants, flats, shirts, etc, fashionable ? Brigitte Bardot in "And God created woman" in 1952, Audrey Hepburn, or Grace Kelly ?
Also, I don't see much resemblance between Scarlett Johanson and Grace Kelly, more between Scarlett and Marilyn Monroe, although Scarlett can be quite the cameleon. I actually liked Cheryl Ladd in the TV version of Grace Kelly's life, and a few times, I found that Naomi Watts, in Mullholland Drive, resembled her. But nobody really resembles her, just as I don't see anyone resembing Katherine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Bacall. It's amazing what living at a certain period of time, following their fashion, can do to create a unique type. And what's also interesting, to me, is that many of the TV starlets or even movie starlets of today resemble each other. Did one privilege uniqueness more in the past than producers/directors do now, where the cookie-cutter style is more marketable ?
The article in the Daily Mail was interesting but confusing, as far as fashion goes. Who truly made capri pants, flats, shirts, etc, fashionable ? Brigitte Bardot in "And God created woman" in 1952, Audrey Hepburn, or Grace Kelly ?
Also, I don't see much resemblance between Scarlett Johanson and Grace Kelly, more between Scarlett and Marilyn Monroe, although Scarlett can be quite the cameleon. I actually liked Cheryl Ladd in the TV version of Grace Kelly's life, and a few times, I found that Naomi Watts, in Mullholland Drive, resembled her. But nobody really resembles her, just as I don't see anyone resembing Katherine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Lauren Bacall. It's amazing what living at a certain period of time, following their fashion, can do to create a unique type. And what's also interesting, to me, is that many of the TV starlets or even movie starlets of today resemble each other. Did one privilege uniqueness more in the past than producers/directors do now, where the cookie-cutter style is more marketable ?
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They just showed Grace on one of the Oscar tributes at the Oscars. Great pics!
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I know, I saw it. Grace was presenting with Jerry Lewis, who looked like he just hit the jackpot!
