Category: Holiday Gift Guide

Audrey Hepburn was the inspiration to Hubert de Givenchy when we designed his L’interdit (For Your Alone) Perfume. Givenchy created this scent for Audrey Hepburn’s own personal use and then dedicated it to her when it became available to the public years later. The perfume and its bottle have remained unaltered to this day. “Truly interdit to all change.”

L’interdit By Givenchy For Women is the perfect classic gift for any woman who loves both high style and Audrey Hepburn.

Top image from Town and Country Magazine (via stephmodo)

Once again, there are some great Audrey Hepburn calendars to choose from for 2010. Here is our favorite, the Audrey Hepburn 2010 FACES Deluxe Wall (Multilingual Edition), available here at Amazon.

There is also the Audrey Hepburn 2010 FACES Square Wall (Wall Calendar) (Multilingual Edition) featuring different pictures of Audrey for sale.

Order one online or pick up one up from your local booksellers today and enjoy photos of Audrey all year long!

There are endless Audrey Hepburn themed gift ideas. Here are just a few that we are especially fond of.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s Theme Watch the movie (Special Anniversary Collector’s Edition DVD; also part of the Audrey Hepburn 5-Pack DVD Collection), read the short story by Truman Capote, listen to the award-winning score (Motion Picture Score; songs also featured in the Henry Mancini – The Ultimate Collection). Plus enjoy movie posters, t-shirts, a wallet made out of the vinyl soundtrack, jigsaw puzzle, night light, Holly Golightly necklace bling, and the ever popular Holly Golightly sleep mask. We also really like The Paramount Years (chronicling Audrey’s time working on five Paramount Studios films including Breakfast at Tiffany’s) and The Audrey Hepburn Treasures from the Audrey Hepburn Estate (contains lots of fantastic Audrey Hepburn trivia plus an excerpt from her Breakfast at Tiffany’s script with handwritten notes!).

Roman Holiday Theme Watch the movie (Roman Holiday Special Collector’s Edition; also part of the Audrey Hepburn 5-Pack DVD Collection), wear a darling Roman Holiday T-Shirt, or hang up a Roman Holiday Movie Poster or one of three art prints featuring photos from the movie: Audrey on the scooter, Audrey with Gregory Peck in his apartment, or Audrey dressed up as the Princess. You can also curl up with a book inspired by the movie. Check out When in Rome… A Novel of Piazzas and Passion.

Audrey Hepburn Book Theme There are so many great Audrey Hepburn books out there. Why not bundle up a few and give a Hepburn library? Here are some of our favorites: Audrey Hepburn: The Paramount Years: A fantastic collection of legendary and never-before-seen Paramount poster art, lobby cards, magazine covers, costume sketches, stills, and fashion photographs celebrates the golden era of Hepburn’s career. A must read item! The Audrey Hepburn Treasures: The most recent book from the Hepburn Estate containing interviews, memories, unseen family photos, and beautifully reproduced replicas of Hepburn memorabilia — “a dazzling celebration of an extraordinary human being, that offers fans an intimate and revealing portrait of the woman they admire and adore.” Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s: Photographs: During the filming Howell Conant took publicity shots on set: Holly Golightly with her indispensable cigarette holder, glamorous in her Givenchy dress in the midst of the party, dreamy-melancholy when singing the Oscar-winning “Moon River” at night on the fire escape… Beaton: Portraits: Containing over 15 pages of portraits of Audrey Hepburn and featuring her on the cover, Beaton: Portraits is a fantastic gift for photography fans who love Audrey Hepburn. Photographs by Sir Cecil Beaton (1904–1980), who was one of the most renowned photographers of his generation. Audrey Hepburn: A Life in Pictures: This stunning book celebrates Audrey’s popularity as an enduring icon, providing a unique insight into her career, personality, and trademark style that still fascinates and captivates today. A detailed biography is accompanied by more than 160 photographs taken by some of the world’s top photographers. Visit our Shop Audrey Hepburn to view and learn more or our Book Excerpts page to read some samples.

What could be more in the spirit of Audrey Hepburn that a gift to charity for this holiday season? Here are just three charities that we believe Audrey would approve of.

The Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund
Audrey’s sons Sean Ferrer and Luca Dotti created The Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund to continue their mother’s humanitarian work. Projects include:

• Audrey Hepburn Memorial Fund at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, dedicated to educating children in Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Rwanda.
• The Audrey Hepburn Children’s House, located at Hackensack University Medical Center, offering comprehensive treatment for physically and emotionally abused children in a “child friendly” environment.
• The Audrey Hepburn CARES Team at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, providing the very best medical and mental health services to suspected victims of child abuse.
• The Audrey Hepburn CARE Center at Childrens Hospital New Orleans, a comprehensive forensic medicine center aiding in the treatment, prevention and care of maltreated children.
• “All Children In School” Program, the recently established ten-year joint-venture with the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, aimed at bringing 120,000,000 children worldwide back to school.

For information on donating, visit their website.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF works for children’s rights, their survival, development and protection, guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Audrey served as Special Ambassador to UNICEF and spent the last years of her life working for needy children, especially in Africa and Latin America. What could be a better continuation of her legacy that a gift to the charity that she so whole-heartedly believed in and contributed towards.

Heifer International
Rather than provide short-term emergency relief, the goal of Heifer International is to help end world hunger and poverty through self-reliance & sustainability by providing gifts of livestock and plants to impoverished families worldwide. Here’s how it works: you donate a gift of livestock, from young heifers to goats to honeybees, to a family in need in one of 50 countries. This family then has a source of food and income. The best part is that every gift multiplies, as the animal’s first offspring is passed on to another family-then they also agree to pass on an animal, and so on. Now that’s a gift worth giving!

Check out this list of other awesome charities.

Know of another fantastic charity? Please leave a comment!

We’re on a roll! We found another Audrey Hepburn jigsaw puzzle!

Check out this fabulous Breakfast at Tiffany’s 1000 piece puzzle! We love the retro style. Good clean fun for the whole family.

Learn more at Amazon.com.

Are you a fan of Roman Holiday? Do you love Audrey Hepburn t-shirts? Here’s one that you won’t find at Target.

The fabulous Roman Holiday T-Shirt featuring images of Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, their adventure on the vespa, and an image of her dressed up as a princess. On the back, it says Hollywood.

Simply adorable.

Here are some books inspired by Audrey Hepburn:

• When in Rome… A Novel of Piazzas and Passion by Gemma Townley

When in Rome, do as Audrey Hepburn would do. Failing that, run off with your ex-boyfriend, carry suspicious packages through customs, and lie to the person who loves you…

“A refreshing, funny, pacy book, it made me want to rush off to Rome and be Audrey Hepburn. I loved it!” – Sophie Kinsella, Author of Confessions of a Shopaholic

• Audrey Hepburn’s Neck by Alan Brown

Offering a unique perspective and unusual insight into modern Japan and its wartime past, Audrey Hepburn’s Neck is also a shrewd study of cross-cultural obsessions, and of erotic, romantic and familial love.

“On page after page, Brown’s touch, both as observer and stylist, is sure and accurate….It’s a rare writer who combines such delicacy with a zany sense of humor….[an] acute and acutely funny novel.” – Mary Jo Salter, Los Angeles Times Book Review

• The Book of Faces by Joseph Campana

In Joseph Campana’s debut collection, starring Audrey Hepburn, icons of public consumption speak in the language of private devotion.

“Joseph Campana’s The Book of Faces is an extraordinary debut. Audrey Hepburn (yes) is the muse and channel for his meditations on the seductions of the screen and page, the Bright Lady of his sonnets, the star and spirit who ‘drags / the miracle vapor forth.’ His poems-lovely, witty, sincere or cynical things—are haunted both by Hepburn (and her leading men) and by a fascinating array of literary specters: Catullus, Petrarch, Chaucer, Spenser, Foucault, Barthes.” – Poet Alice Fulton

Fun reads for all!
Read excerpts and learn more by clicking on the titles above.

Here’s yet another Audrey Hepburn calendar for 2008!
This one is really good.

This calendar, put together by the Museum of Modern Art, features “twelve examples of posters that have become as iconic and beloved as the films they represent.” Audrey is in two of the posters: Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Funny Face.


Learn more about the Museum Of Modern Art’s 2008 Movie Poster Calendar!

Released just last month, The Audrey Hepburn 5-Pack is the ultimate DVD collection for any Audrey Hepburn fan.

This fantastic collection contains Audrey’s most popular films: Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Paris When it Sizzles, Funny Face (the 50th Anniversary Edition!), and Breakfast at Tiffany’s (the Special Anniversary Collector’s Edition!)!

That’s 5 discs and over 550 minutes of Audrey Hepburn movie goodness. Pure heaven!

To learn more about the Funny Face 50th Anniversary Edition, view our review here or view our post here about the Breakfast at Tiffany’s Special Anniversary Collector’s Edition from the 2006 Holiday Gift Guide.

Order your copy of the Audrey Hepburn 5-Pack DVD Collection today! At just $27.99 it’s downright affordable.

We found another Audrey Hepburn calendar for 2008! This one contains vintage movie posters and Audrey is featured not once, but twice: for Breakfast at Tiffany’s and My Fair Lady. Those movie posters are darling, don’t you think?!

Other movies displayed in the calendar include Gone With the Wind, Singin’ in the Rain, Robin Hood, The Philadelphia Story, and An American in Paris:

We think the format is just delightful and what fun to have a different vintage classic each month of the year.
Order your Vintage Movie Poster Calendar today!