White floral Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn Oscar dress. The dress, like Hepburn's later little black dress in "Breakfast at Tiffany's", is cited as one of the classic dresses of the 20th century. A poll by Debenhams, published in the "Daily Telegraph", voted it the second most iconic red carpet dress of all time. "Time" magazine voted the dress the greatest Oscar dress of all time. "Variety" magazine's "Complete Book of Oscar Fashion" placed it among their selections for the Oscar's most beautiful gowns with the header "It's a Cinch!" White floral Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn wore a white floral Givenchy dress to the
Audrey Hepburn men, in comparison to the curvy and more sexual Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor. With her short hair style, thick eyebrows, slim body, and "gamine" looks, she presented a look which young women found easier to emulate than those of more sexual film stars. In 1954, fashion photographer Cecil Beaton declared Hepburn the "public embodiment of our new feminine ideal" in "Vogue", and wrote that "Nobody ever looked like her before World War II ... Yet we recognise the rightness of this appearance in relation to our historical needs. The proof is that thousands of imitations have appeared." The magazine