Too tawdry for Audrey
What is it with Audrey Hepburn? Why is it that every starlet who watches Breakfast at Tiffany’s seems to think she is the first to do so; as though it were obscure and not a blockbuster rom-com starring one of the most famous women since the dawn of time.
First it was Coleen McLoughlin with her, erm, Asda range. Now it’s Maria Sharapova, the grunting Russian tennis player, who has cited Hepburn as the inspiration for the weird black thing she is wearing to play in the US Open. “I’m really inspired by her,” she says, as though she had found Hepburn in the attic, in a box with her grandmother’s gas mask. “I’m in a phase where I’m watching all her movies.”
Granted, the outfit does look a little bit like the kind of thing Hepburn would have worn — immediately after a house fire, perhaps. If Hepburn ever did venture on to a tennis court you can bet she was wearing some kind of preppy, functional Airtex, and not a black, slashed, floaty thing, bedecked with crystals around the neck.
Still, perhaps we should be thankful for small mercies. “I’ll be in another phase next month,” says Sharapova. If she’d been watching Star Wars she could have been out there looking like C-3PO, the poor thing. Or maybe Chewbacca. After all, she already does the noises.