Breakfast at Tiffany’s dress costume

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The Iconic Little Black Dress of Breakfast
at Tiffanys

• Remember the opening scene of the all-time hit
  1961 romantic comedy movie Breakfast at
  Tiffanys? Audrey Hepburn alights from a taxi
  early morning in New York and walks slowly
  towards Tiffanys store dressed in a black dress.
  The dress is cited as one of the most iconic
  items in the history of the twentieth century and
  the most famous little black dress of all time.

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Breakfast at Tiffanys dress costume 

• This Breakfast at Tiffanys dress costume was
  chosen as the best dress ever worn by a woman in
  a film in a survey conducted in 2010 by LOVEFILM.
  The outfit has stood the test of time over
  decades and replicas of the dress are still worn
  by women around the world as an extra layer to
  their glam quotient. Incidentally, another outfit
  worn by Audrey Hepburn, the white dress and hat
  worn in My Fair Lady, was voted sixth in the same
  survey

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• This black dress was designed by famous
  French designer Hubert de Givenchy who was a very
  close friend of Audrey Hepburn. Givenchy had two
  copies of the dress made and one was taken by
  Hepburn to the producers Paramount. However, they
  decided that the lower half of the dress which
  revealed a considerable part of the leg would not
  be suitable for the movie. This part was
  redesigned by Edith Head and became the dress
  that the world saw in the film. Surprisingly,
  none of the dresses created by Givenchy in its
  originality were used either in promotional
  photography or the movie.

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• The private archive of Givenchy has the
  original hand-stitched dress. The copy that
  Audrey took to Paramount is displayed at the
  Museo del Traje in Madrid while another copy was
  auctioned at Christies in December 2006. It was
  purchased by an anonymous buyer over the
  telephone. The bidding ended between 50,000 and
  70,000 but the final price was a stunning
  467,200. The proceeds of the auction of
  this Breakfast at Tiffanys dress costume went
  towards building a school for the poor people of
  Calcutta.

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• This little black dress is a Givenchy black
  Italian sheath evening gown. The dress costume is
  best described by Christies in its catalog
  before the auction a sleeveless, floor-length
  gown with fitted bodice embellished at the back
  with distinctive cut-out décolleté, the skirt
  slightly gathered at the waist and slit to the
  thigh on one side, labeled inside on the
  waistband Givenchy accompanied by a pair of
  black elbow-length gloves. The bodice is
  slightly open at the back and leaves the
  shoulders uncovered.

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• The actress also wears a pair of matching
  gloves of the same color and a five-string pearl
  necklace with a clasp at the center. The necklace
  was made by Roger Scemama, a Frenchman, who
  designed jewelry for Givenchy. The overall look
  of Audrey Hepburn in the opening scene of the
  film has been described as ultra-feminine and
  Parisian.