Charmed by Audrey
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Never out of fashion
REVIEW BY MICHELLE JONES Another book about Audrey Hepburn? Enough already, you may be thinking. Well, not so fast. Charmed by Audrey: Life on the Set of 'Sabrina' is delightful, starting with the cover shot of Hepburn wearing a white shirt—and little else—in a pose that's both provocative and playful. That photo and all the others in the book were among the "lost" negatives from a photo shoot by LIFE photographer Mark Shaw. In 1953, Shaw was new to the masthead and Hepburn was working on her second film. In Sabrina, she would be equally captivating on-screen and off, if these photos are anything to go by: we see Hepburn taking direction from Billy Wilder, eating breakfast with William Holden et al., conferring with Edith Head. During the weeks Shaw spent shadowing Hepburn, he captured her rare blend of being perfectly suited for her time—looking smashing in full-skirted dresses, for example—and a symbol of timeless glamour. But some of the best images show Hepburn getting glamorous: dressed in black sweater, slacks and espadrilles, with a crisp white shirt as a jacket, she sits crossed-legged under an egg-shaped chrome hair-dryer, smoking a cigarette through a holder, à la Holly Golightly.
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