“Her style is timeless and classic, but at the same time still fashion-forward. She could be avant-garde yet simplistic. Her style was very carefree. She’s a fashion icon,” Samantha Richelle tells Mara Miano in the September 2014 issue of Red Magazine. It’s an unexpected choice for the tattooed bombshell of a cover girl, who’s currently working on the RTW line of her namesake brand, but hey, maybe more than a few of you will admit to dressing up as Holly Golightly in your creative grad photo.
Still, liking Audrey Hepburn is as common as liking the air you breathe. Read on to see what 20 other famous people love (and hate—Truman Capote, we’re looking at you) about tireless favorite Audrey Hepburn.
“I wonder what Audrey Hepburn and Judy Garland would’ve posted on Instagram if it’d been around back in the day.” — Arianna Grande
“I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait.” —Richard Avedon
“Round two of Audrey Hepburn with @sara24watson. This movie is so unbelievably charming! #funnyface” —Jennifer Stone, actress
“After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano.”—Billy Wilder, director
“Audrey Hepburn is the best. I can’t even tell you how much I love Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany’s!” — Miranda Cosgrove
“Natalie is the Audrey Hepburn of our generation. She is elegant, graceful, has amazing eyebrows, is talented, really short, funny, smart, dedicated, incredibly kind.” —Jake Gyllenhaal (on Brothers co-star Natalie Portman)
“I mean, you can’t possibly measure up to Audrey Hepburn; there’s no comparison. But the elegance that she exuded was transmitted to the dress, you know, the feeling, the emotion of it.” —Natalie Portman‘s response to Jake Gyllenhall’s effusive flattery
“It’s not like Audrey Hepburn was running around in a bunch of giant shoulder-padded-dresses.” —Zooey Deschanel
“Audrey Hepburn definitely remains a style icon—you only have to look at the spring/summer catwalks. Her image is clean-cut, gamine yet feminine, chic. When we do features at Glamour on how to achieve a ‘timeless’ look, we often look back to Audrey.” —Jo Elvin, editor of Glamour magazine
“I find Audrey Hepburn fantastically twee.” —Emma Thompson
“Audrey had very rare qualities and I envied her style and taste. I felt clumsy and old-fashioned when I was with her.” —Shirley Maclaine
“I just finished reading a biography on her. She’s so inspiring! I just love her grace and her class. Plus, she totally originated the trouser pant for women. Where would women be without them? And of course, she’s a phenomenal actress. She’s just the epitome of the grace and style that I want to emulate when I grow up.” —Caroline Sunshine
“I like a more classic look. I always go back to Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly. Red lipstick and a winged eyeliner — I think that looks nice.” —Taylor Swift
“I now give you the half black Audrey Hepburn…#diamonddipped” —Zendaya Coleman, actress
“Audrey asked me to see her and she arrived in the studio. It’s not that I was disappointed (to not meet Katherine Hepburn). She was ravishing. But she was dressed in a way that surprised me: small pants, ballerina flats. I asked myself ‘Who is this young lady?’” —Hubert de Givenchy
“Watching the amazing Audrey Hepburn…” —Selena Gomez
“Audrey was a singular person, there ain’t many like her. ‘Beautiful woman’ is very difficult to explain, but she certainly was beautiful. She was very enticing at all times. She was a talented actress, and very personable.” —Leo Fuchs, photographer
“I can’t sleep unless it’s pitch black. The sleep mask I have now is a replica of the one Audrey Hepburn wore in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I love it.” —Emma Roberts
“It was a very fulfilling job so I would say character-wise, that and getting to play Audrey Hepburn (in The Audrey Hepburn Story) would probably be my two biggest ones. But my biggest accomplishment is just still being here and getting to do it.” —Jennifer Love Hewitt
“See why I didn’t want Hepburn for this? She can’t eat. Marilyn Monroe is who I wanted. Marilyn Monroe knows how to eat.” —Truman Capote
Photos by Paolo Pineda
Source: Mara Miano for Red Magazine, “Make Way,” September 2014