What Happened To Audrey Hepburn’s Cancelled Wedding Gown?

I Spent Over Two Years Planning The Italian Wedding Of My Dreams – Then Along Came Coronavirus

Pictures of the actress as a bride are familiar across the globe, yet few will notice it is in just one that she appears alone. A portrait taken in 1952 wearing a gown that never made it to the aisle, when the 23-year-old actress’s wedding to businessman James Hanson was suddenly called off. The couple got engaged while she was filming, for which later she won an Oscar.

The design in question was created by the Fontana sisters, who at the time ran one of the most renowned ateliers in Rome. It was there where they created the off-white satin gown with a bateau neckline, French sleeves and buttoned back, a famous silhouette and central character to this story. Until, that is – “It is with a heavy heart I am writing to tell you James Hanson and I are no longer engaged”, wrote the actress in a letter at the time.

Although her relationship with James Hanson ended, Hepburn’s romances carried on, going on to marry actor Mel Ferrer two years later in a dress by Pierre Balmain, before her nuptials with Italian doctor Andrea Dotti in 1969 – famously in wearing a Givenchy minidress. Each marking a moment in fashion history of its own merit.

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Did you know... At the start of WW2, Audrey and her family lived in London. For safety, her parents took her to Nazi Occupied Holland to escape the Blitz. They moved to Arnhem 😬

I'd take a pice of that ~If I wasn't full of Ola.

Great Read! cassiein_thecity

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