Audrey Hepburn’s Real Wedding Dress
Friday, November 27th, 2009Remember the Givenchy wedding dress Audrey Hepburn wore on the set of Sabrina? It turns out that the design of her real wedding dress was radically different from this one, and it has a rather touching story behind it that didn’t receive much publicity.

It is 1952, seven years after the devastation of World War II. Audrey Hepburn spent the last years of the second World War in the Netherlands, hoping she would survive the bombings from the Allied and the famine the Dutch endured as a result of Operation Market Garden. But the war is over and the budding actress was engaged for the first time to James Hanson. At the time of the engagement, Audrey Hepburn was in Italy filming the movie Roman Holiday with Gregory Peck – her first starring role. She was so excited about the wedding that she had her wedding dress fitted and made by the renowned Fontana sisters in the middle of filming the movie.

My wedding gown was half-inspired by Kate Winslet’s sinking-ship attire. If anyone remembers, she had on this wonderful, 














































