Grace Grace.....Grace Kelly exudes 'grace' ..and elegance in her style ( letz to pay attention to the other part of her lifestyle ). I first noticed her style in the Hitchcock movie ' rear window ' in spite of having seen 2 other movie of her ( other 2 Hitchcock movie- To Catch a Thief & Dial M for Murder )
what caught my eyes was this gorgeous dress.
here she gives a really elaborate description of the dress ( for me listening to that itself made me fall in love with the dress :)
This was designed by Edith Head, a oscar winning designer.
Kelly wore another of Edith's creation, a sea-foam satin gown. Kelly was seen wear this same gown previously for a film premier-a firm believer of re-wearing classic garments, something obviously you wouldn't hear-see or even talk bout in present times.
She is quoted as saying 'I just buy clothes when they take my eye, and I wear them for years.'
“She didn’t necessarily lead fashion in a new direction,” says Jenny Lister, a curator of Textiles and Fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum. “She’s become shorthand for a very polished and well-accessorized look. Contemporary designers like Zac Posen have talked about her timeless appeal. I think it boils down to quite ethereal ideas, because in some of her films she almost seemed like a goddess, and because they couldn’t pin her down—she was so private. That aura of mystery, she retained that. And because she stopped making films, it never changed.”
One of Kelly’s style virtues was that she appreciated and wore designs for their quality, not their cost, and wouldn’t turn up her nose at a gown lacking couture pedigree.
The top is incredibly fitted with a wide ballerina skirt, and the fabric is described as 'ashes of roses' (what a delightful colour name!) taffeta covered with 'blush-tan' lace.
Kelly wore this Hubert De Givenchy green wool shift for a state meeting with the president and the First Lady after her marriage to the Prince of Monacco.
She brought into vogue the more flatter cuts that came to be known her style. Here she is wear a Oleg Cassini dress.
Seen often in light and airy fabrics, like chiffon, watered silk, unlined linen, and that most levitational textile, silk organza ,her gowns, columnar, with waterfall pleats and cascades of fluting, sheer trains flowing from the back (where wings would be, if she had them), and sheer scarves like soft breezes around her neck. Grace’s day dresses have fitted bodices and skirts blossoming from the waist—a very clever fusion of the ballerina’s tutu with the American shirtwaist, ad her colour pallete-Wheat-field and buttercup yellows, azure and cerulean blues, seashell pink and angel-skin coral, Sun King gold and Olympus white—no one wore white like Grace Kelly. !
