♥ i'm going to dress myself divine.

i love the movie, funny face (1957)

especially the following scene where fashion photographer,

dick avery (fred astaire) directs the shy, bookish jo stockton (audrey hepburn)

in a "beautiful meets intellectual" fashion shoot for

the fictitious quality magazine.

simply. breathtaking.

for those of you who have never seen this film, (rent it!)

you may not know that the part of dick avery is loosely based

on the work of american fashion photographer extraordinaire,

richard avedon.

his work is STUNNING, and includes many

of the shots shown in the opening scene of the film,

such as this overexposed image of audrey hepburn's flawless face:

{images via the richard avedon foundation}

i am pretty sure that i will never look as effortlessly glamorous

as the ladies in richard avedon's photography, but i

think if i owned one of these gorgeous gowns from

timeless vixen on etsy, i would be one

step closer to audrey hepburn,

who according to avedon,

"achieved in herself her

ultimate portrait."

what will your ultimate portrait look like?