Editing Audrey Hepburn (section)

==Legacy==
Hepburn's legacy has endured long after her death. The [[American Film Institute]] named Hepburn third among the [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars|greatest female stars of American cinema]]. She is one of few entertainers who have won [[EGOT|Academy, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Awards]]. She won a record three [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA Awards]] for [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role#Superlatives|Best British Actress in a Leading Role]]. She received a tribute from the [[Film Society of Lincoln Center]] in 1991 and she was a frequent presenter at the Academy Awards. She received the [[BAFTA]] Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992.<ref name="times2021"/> She was the recipient of numerous posthumous awards, including the 1993 [[Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award]] and competitive Grammy and Emmy Awards. In January 2009, Hepburn was named on ''[[The Times]]''{{'}} list of the top 10 British actresses of all time.<ref name="times2021">{{Cite news |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article5502980.ece |title=The best British film actresses of all time |date=12 January 2009 |work=The Times |location=London |first=James |last=Christopher |access-date=5 November 2016 |archive-date=27 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127204102/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2010, [[Emma Thompson]] opined that Hepburn "can't sing and she can't really act"; some people agreed, others disagreed.<ref>{{Cite news |title=There's no reason for Emma Thompson to go lightly on Audrey Hepburn |last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |newspaper=The Guardian |date=10 August 2010 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2010/aug/10/emma-thompson-audrey-hepburn |access-date=19 November 2020 |archive-date=11 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411053030/https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2010/aug/10/emma-thompson-audrey-hepburn |url-status=live }}</ref> Hepburn's son Sean later said "My mother would be the first person to say that she wasn't the best actress in the world. But she was a movie star."<ref name=clarke>{{Cite news |title='My mother was like a steel fist in a velvet glove': the real Audrey Hepburn |last=Clarke |first=Cath |newspaper=The Guardian |date=19 November 2020 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/nov/19/my-mother-was-like-a-steel-fist-in-a-velvet-glove-the-real-audrey-hepburn |access-date=19 November 2020 |archive-date=21 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021220545/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/nov/19/my-mother-was-like-a-steel-fist-in-a-velvet-glove-the-real-audrey-hepburn |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Audrey Hepburn figure at Madame Tussauds London.jpg|thumb|upright|Waxwork of Hepburn at [[Madame Tussauds]], London]]

She has been the subject of many biographies since her death, including the 2000 dramatisation of her life titled ''[[The Audrey Hepburn Story]]'' which starred [[Jennifer Love Hewitt]] and [[Emmy Rossum]] as the older and younger Hepburn respectively.<ref>{{cite news |last=Tynan |first=William |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996489,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024135735/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996489,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 October 2007 |title=The Audrey Hepburn Story |magazine=Time |date=27 March 2000}}</ref> Her son and granddaughter, [[Sean Hepburn Ferrer|Sean]] and [[Emma Ferrer]], helped produce a biographical documentary directed by Helena Coan, entitled ''[[Audrey (2020 film)|Audrey]]'' (2020). The film was released to positive reception.<ref name="vogue">{{cite web |last1=Ramzi |first1=Lilah |title=A New Audrey Hepburn Documentary Reveals the Life Beyond the Glamour |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/audrey-more-than-an-icon-documentary |website=Vogue |date=16 December 2020 |access-date=17 April 2021 |archive-date=21 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421055622/https://www.vogue.com/article/audrey-more-than-an-icon-documentary |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Audrey (2020) |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/audrey-2020 |website=Metacritic |access-date=17 April 2021 |archive-date=18 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418151804/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/audrey-2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> 

In 2012, Hepburn was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir [[Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake]] to appear in a new version of his best known artwork – the Beatles' ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his lifetime thus far that he most admires.<ref>{{cite news |title=New faces on Sgt Pepper album cover for artist Peter Blake's 80th birthday |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/apr/02/peter-blake-sgt-pepper-cover-revisited |work=The Guardian |date=5 October 2016 |access-date=5 November 2016 |archive-date=5 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105095109/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/apr/02/peter-blake-sgt-pepper-cover-revisited |url-status=live }}</ref>  On 4 May 2014, Google featured a [[Google Doodle|doodle]] on its homepage on what would have been Hepburn's 85th birthday.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/87152/google-doodle-audrey-hepburn/ |title=Google Doodle Pays Tribute to Audrey Hepburn |first=Samantha |last=Grossman |date=4 May 2014 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=10 March 2017 |archive-date=12 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112011028/https://time.com/87152/google-doodle-audrey-hepburn/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Sean Ferrer founded the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund<ref name=":0AA">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/02/audrey-hepburn-son-lawsuit-childrens-fund |title=Audrey Hepburn's Oldest Son in Legal Wrangle with Her Children's Fund |last=Bryant |first=Kenzie |date=10 February 2017 |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |archive-date=31 May 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200531055017/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/02/audrey-hepburn-son-lawsuit-childrens-fund |url-status=live}}</ref> in memory of his mother shortly after her death. The US Fund for UNICEF also founded the Audrey Hepburn Society: the Society hosted annual charity balls for fundraising, until Ferrer became involved in lawsuits in the late 2010s on behalf of his mother's estate.<ref name="KNBC">{{cite news |url=https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/proposed-decision-favors-actress-eldest-son-in-dispute-with-charity/1963157/ |title=Proposed Decision Favors Actress' Eldest Son in Dispute with Charity |publisher=[[KNBC]] |location=Los Angeles, California |date=19 October 2019 |access-date=15 April 2020 |archive-date=28 July 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200728214515/https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/proposed-decision-favors-actress-eldest-son-in-dispute-with-charity/1963157/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Sean Hepburn Ferrer">{{cite press release |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/audrey-hepburns-son-sean-hepburn-ferrer-vindicated-by-court-decision-300967769.html |title=Audrey Hepburn's Son Sean Hepburn Ferrer Vindicated By Court Decision |publisher=Sean Hepburn Ferrer |date=3 December 2019 |access-date=28 July 2020 |via=[[PR Newswire]] |archive-date=28 July 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200728214713/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/audrey-hepburns-son-sean-hepburn-ferrer-vindicated-by-court-decision-300967769.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Dotti also became patron of the [[Pseudomyxoma Survivor]] charity, dedicated to providing support to patients of the rare cancer that was fatal to Hepburn, [[pseudomyxoma peritonei]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pseudomyxomasurvivor.org/audrey.html |title=Sean Hepburn Ferrer |work=Pseudomyxoma Survivor |access-date=5 July 2015 |archive-date=4 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204041700/http://www.pseudomyxomasurvivor.org/audrey.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and Sean Ferrer became the rare disease ambassador since 2014 and for 2015 on behalf of [[European Organisation for Rare Diseases]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rarediseaseday.org/article/rare-disease-day-2015-ambassador |title=Rare Disease Day ® 2015 – Sean Hepburn Ferrer, special ambassador of Rare Disease Day 2014 |work=Rare Disease Day – 28 Feb 2015 |access-date=5 July 2015 |archive-date=28 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328015128/http://www.rarediseaseday.org/article/rare-disease-day-2015-ambassador |url-status=dead}}</ref> A year after his mother's death in 1993, Ferrer founded the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund (originally named Hollywood for Children Inc.),<ref name=Reuters /> a charity funded by exhibitions of Audrey Hepburn memorabilia. He directed the charity in cooperation with his half-brother Luca Dotti, and [[Robert Wolders]], his mother's partner, which aimed to continue the humanitarian work of Audrey Hepburn.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.audreyhepburn.com/menu/index.php?idMenu=42&pg=1 |title=Note from Sean Ferrer |publisher=Audrey Hepburn official website |date=n.d. |archive-date=12 February 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160212060449/http://www.audreyhepburn.com/menu/index.php?idMenu=42&pg=1 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Ferrer brought the exhibition "Timeless Audrey" on a world tour to raise money for the foundation.<ref name=businesswire>{{cite press release |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20090308005023/en/Audrey-Hepburn-Arrives-Berlin |title=Audrey Hepburn Arrives in Berlin |publisher=Ileana International |via=[[Business Wire]] |date=9 March 2009 |access-date=28 July 2020 |archive-date=28 July 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200728212630/https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20090308005023/en/Audrey-Hepburn-Arrives-Berlin |url-status=live}}</ref> He served as Chairman of the Fund before resigning in 2012, turning over the position to Dotti.<ref name=":0">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/02/audrey-hepburn-son-lawsuit-childrens-fund |title=Audrey Hepburn's Oldest Son in Legal Wrangle with Her Children's Fund |last=Bryant |first=Kenzie |date=10 February 2017 |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |archive-date=31 May 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200531055017/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/02/audrey-hepburn-son-lawsuit-childrens-fund |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2017, Ferrer was sued by the Fund for alleged self-serving conduct.<ref name=":0" /> In October 2017, Ferrer responded by suing the Fund for trademark infringement, claiming that the Fund no longer had the right to use Hepburn's name or likeness.<ref name=Reuters>{{Cite news |url=https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-audreyhepburn-lawsuit-idUKKBN1CA2Z3 |title=Audrey Hepburn's son sues children's charity over use of mother's name |last=Stempel |first=Jonathan |date=5 October 2017 |work=Reuters |location=UK |access-date=12 March 2019 |language=en |archive-date=28 July 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200728213253/https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-audreyhepburn-lawsuit-idUKKBN1CA2Z3 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Ferrer's suit against the Fund was dismissed in March 2018 due to the complaint's failure to include Dotti as a defendant.<ref>{{cite court |litigants=Sean Hepburn Ferrer v. Hollywood For Children, Inc. |vol= |reporter=[[Court Listener]]. [[Free Law Project]] |opinion= |pinpoint= |court=District Court, Central District of California |date=2017–2018 |url=https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6164641/sean-hepburn-ferrer-v-hollywood-for-children-inc/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200728213702/https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6164641/sean-hepburn-ferrer-v-hollywood-for-children-inc/ |url-status=bot: unknown }} from the original on 28 July 2020.</ref> In 2019, the court sided with Ferrer, with the judge ruling there was no merit to the charity's claims it had the independent right to use Audrey Hepburn's name and likeness, or to enter into contracts with third parties without Ferrer's consent.<ref name="KNBC"/><ref name="Sean Hepburn Ferrer"/>

Hepburn's image is widely used in advertising campaigns across the world. In Japan, a series of commercials used [[colourised]] and digitally enhanced clips of Hepburn in ''Roman Holiday'' to advertise [[Kirin Brewery Company|Kirin]] [[black tea]]. In the United States, Hepburn was featured in a 2006 [[Gap (clothing retailer)|Gap]] commercial that used clips of her dancing from ''Funny Face'', set to [[AC/DC]]'s "[[Back in Black (song)|Back in Black]]", with the tagline "It's Back – The Skinny Black Pant". To celebrate its "Keep it Simple" campaign, the Gap made a sizeable donation to the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5371942 |title=New Gap marketing campaign featuring original film footage of Audrey Hepburn helps Gap "Keeps it Simple" this Fall – WBOC-TV 16 |date=28 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928010941/http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5371942 |archive-date=28 September 2007}}</ref> In 2013, a [[Computer-generated imagery|computer-manipulated representation]] of Hepburn was used in a television advert for the British chocolate bar [[Galaxy (chocolate)|Galaxy]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/audrey-hepburn-advertisegalaxy-chocolate-bars-over-her-dead-body-8508603.html |title=Audrey Hepburn advertise Galaxy chocolate bars? Over her dead body! |work=The Independent |date=24 February 2013 |author=Usborne, Simon |location=London |access-date=24 August 2017 |archive-date=25 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925014557/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/audrey-hepburn-advertisegalaxy-chocolate-bars-over-her-dead-body-8508603.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Galaxy YouTube">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6kjbZSHTkQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/r6kjbZSHTkQ |archive-date=11 December 2021 |url-status=live |title=Audrey Hepburn digitaly{{sic |hide=y}} reborn for Galaxy |website=[[YouTube]] |date=1 March 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===Public image and style icon===
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[[File:Audrey Hepburn auf dem Bürgenstock (16).jpg|thumb|upright|Hepburn with a short hairstyle and wearing one of her signature looks: black turtleneck, slim black trousers, and ballet flats|alt=Hepburn publicity still featuring short hair and shoes with flat soles.]]

Hepburn was known for her fashion choices and distinctive look, to the extent that journalist [[Mark Tungate]] has described her as a recognisable brand.{{sfnm|Sheridan|2010|1p=95}} When she first rose to stardom in ''Roman Holiday'' (1953), she was seen as an alternative feminine ideal that appealed more to women than men, compared to the more sexual and curvy [[Marilyn Monroe]] and [[Elizabeth Taylor]].<ref name=newkind>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10252693/Audrey-Hepburn-a-new-kind-of-movie-star.html |location=London |work=The Daily Telegraph |first=Anne |last=Billson |title=Audrey Hepburn: a new kind of movie star |date=29 December 2014 |access-date=5 April 2018 |archive-date=24 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524080854/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10252693/Audrey-Hepburn-a-new-kind-of-movie-star.html |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfnm|Hill|2004|1p=78}} With her short hairstyle, thick eyebrows, slim body, and "[[gamine]]" looks, she presented a look that young women found easier to emulate than those of more sexual film stars.<ref name=moseleyguardian>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/mar/07/highereducation.gender |title=Audrey Hepburn – everybody's fashion icon |first=Rachel |last=Moseley |work=The Guardian |date=7 March 2004 |access-date=11 December 2016 |archive-date=5 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105001115/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/mar/07/highereducation.gender |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1954, fashion photographer [[Cecil Beaton]] declared Hepburn the "public embodiment of our new feminine ideal" in ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'', and wrote that "Nobody ever looked like her before World War II ... Yet we recognise the rightness of this appearance in relation to our historical needs. The proof is that thousands of imitations have appeared."{{sfnm|Hill|2004|1p=78}} The magazine and its [[British Vogue|British version]] frequently reported on her style throughout the following decade.{{sfnm|Sheridan|2010|1p=93}} Alongside model [[Twiggy]], Hepburn has been cited as one of the key public figures who made being very slim fashionable.<ref name=moseleyguardian /> ''Vogue'' has referred to her as "the acme of classic beauty". 

Added to the [[International Best Dressed List]] in 1961, Hepburn was associated with a minimalistic style, usually wearing clothes with simple silhouettes that emphasised her slim body, such as monochromatic colours with occasional statement accessories.<ref name=BBCfuss>{{cite news |title=Audrey Hepburn: Why the fuss? |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4884428.stm |first=Megan |last=Lane |work=[[BBC News]] |date=7 April 2006 |access-date=8 April 2011 |archive-date=10 April 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060410011830/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4884428.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> In the late 1950s, Hepburn popularised plain black leggings.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://laruemoderne.com/80s-fashion-trends/ |title=80s Fashion Trends, Reborn!s |author=Naomi Harriet |publisher=La Rue Moderne |date=19 August 2016 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821053509/http://laruemoderne.com/80s-fashion-trends/ |archive-date=21 August 2016}}</ref> She was in particular associated with French fashion designer [[Hubert de Givenchy]], who was first hired to design her on-screen wardrobe for her second Hollywood film, ''Sabrina'' (1954), when she was still unknown as a film actor and he a young [[couturier]] just starting [[Givenchy|his fashion house]].<ref name=givenchyvf>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/02/audrey-hepburn-givenchy-style |title=When Hubert Met Audrey |magazine=Vanity Fair |first=Amy Fine |last=Collins |date=3 February 2014 |access-date=21 February 2020 |archive-date=1 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601104040/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/02/audrey-hepburn-givenchy-style |url-status=live }}</ref> Although initially disappointed that "Miss Hepburn" was not [[Katharine Hepburn]] as he had mistakenly thought, Givenchy and Hepburn formed a life-long friendship.<ref name=givenchyvf /><ref name=vmagazine>{{cite web |url=http://www.vmagazine.com/site/content/3772/hubert-de-givenchy--audrey-hepburn |title=Hubert de Givenchy & Audrey Hepburn |work=V Magazine |first=Katharine K. |last=Zarrella |access-date=23 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150510150422/http://www.vmagazine.com/site/content/3772/hubert-de-givenchy--audrey-hepburn |archive-date=10 May 2015}}</ref> 
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In addition to ''Sabrina'', Givenchy designed her costumes for ''Love in the Afternoon'' (1957), ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1961), ''Funny Face'' (1957), ''Charade'' (1963), ''Paris When It Sizzles'' (1964), and ''How to Steal a Million'' (1966), as well as clothing her off screen.<ref name=givenchyvf /> According to Moseley, fashion plays an unusually central role in many of Hepburn's films, stating that "the costume is not tied to the character, functioning 'silently' in the [[mise-en-scène]], but as 'fashion' becomes an attraction in the aesthetic in its own right".{{sfnm|Moseley|2002|1p=39}} She also became the face of Givenchy's first perfume, ''[[L'Interdit]]'', in 1957.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/news-features/TMG9176362/Beauty-Icon-Givenchys-LInterdit.html |title=Beauty Icon: Givenchy's ''L'Interdit'' |work=The Daily Telegraph |first=Sonia |last=Haria |date=4 August 2012 |access-date=26 April 2016 |archive-date=10 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310024348/http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/news-features/TMG9176362/Beauty-Icon-Givenchys-LInterdit.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In addition to her partnership with Givenchy, Hepburn was credited with boosting the sales of [[Burberry]] [[trench coat]]s when she wore one in ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'', and was associated with Italian footwear brand [[Tod's]].{{sfnm|Sheridan|2010|1pp=92–95}}

In her private life, Hepburn preferred to wear casual and comfortable clothes, contrary to the [[haute couture]] she wore on screen and at public events.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/people/hepburn-revival-feeding-false-image/2006/10/01/1159641215445.html |title=Hepburn revival feeding false image? |work=The Age |date=2 October 2006 |location=Melbourne, Australia |access-date=15 January 2008 |archive-date=5 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080405122305/http://www.theage.com.au/news/people/hepburn-revival-feeding-false-image/2006/10/01/1159641215445.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Despite being admired for her beauty, she never considered herself attractive, stating in a 1959 interview that "you can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly{{nbsp}}... you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn't conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive."<ref>Harris, Eleanor. [http://www.audreyhepburnlibrary.com/50s/images/goodhousekeeping8-59pg4.jpg Audrey Hepburn] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704193556/http://www.audreyhepburnlibrary.com/50s/images/goodhousekeeping8-59pg4.jpg |date=4 July 2007 }}, ''[[Good Housekeeping]]'', August 1959</ref> In 1989, she stated that "my look is attainable ... Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large glasses and the little sleeveless dresses."<ref name=BBCfuss />

Hepburn's influence as a style icon still continued several decades after the height of her acting career in the 1950s and 1960s. Moseley notes that especially after her death in 1993, she became increasingly admired, with magazines frequently advising readers on how to get her look, and fashion designers using her as inspiration.{{sfnm|Moseley|2002|1pp=1–10}}<ref name=moseleyguardian /> Throughout her career and after her death, Hepburn received numerous accolades for her stylish appearance and attractiveness. For example, she was named the "most beautiful woman of all time"<ref name="BBC">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3763887.stm |title=Audrey Hepburn tops beauty poll |work=BBC News |date=31 May 2004 |access-date=12 July 2009 |archive-date=2 June 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040602192458/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3763887.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> and "most beautiful woman of the 20th century"<ref>{{cite web |title=Actress Tops Poll of 20th Century Beauties |url=http://news.sky.com/story/788826/actress-tops-poll-of-20th-century-beauties |work=Sky |date=1 July 2010 |first=Lulu |last=Sinclair |access-date=14 August 2015 |archive-date=21 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121064425/http://news.sky.com/story/788826/actress-tops-poll-of-20th-century-beauties |url-status=live }}</ref> in polls by [[Evian]] and [[QVC]] respectively, and in 2015, was voted "the most stylish Brit of all time" in a poll commissioned by [[Samsung]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/audrey-hepburn-is-officially-britain-s-style-icon-22-years-after-her-death-10207051.html |title=Audrey Hepburn is officially Britain's style icon – 22 years after her death |first=Linda |last=Sharkey |work=[[The Independent]] |date=27 April 2015 |access-date=24 August 2017 |archive-date=10 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210061900/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/audrey-hepburn-is-officially-britain-s-style-icon-22-years-after-her-death-10207051.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Her film costumes fetch large sums of money in auctions: one of the "[[Black Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn|little black dresses]]" designed by Givenchy for ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' was sold by [[Christie's]] for a record sum of £467,200 in 2006.<ref>[http://www.christies.com/Lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?sid=&intObjectID=4832498&AllObjectIDs=&SRObjectID=&AllSaleIDs=&SRSaleID=&RefineQueryURL= Christie's online catalog] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904205031/http://www.christies.com/Lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?sid=&intObjectID=4832498&AllObjectIDs=&SRObjectID=&AllSaleIDs=&SRSaleID=&RefineQueryURL= |date=4 September 2020 }}. Retrieved 7 December 2006.</ref>{{efn|This was the highest price paid for a dress from a film,<ref>{{cite news |last=Dahl |first=Melissa |title=Stylebook: Hepburn gown fetches record price |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=11 December 2006 |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06345/745167-314.stm |access-date=1 January 2010 |archive-date=11 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511182126/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06345/745167-314.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> until it was surpassed by the $4.6&nbsp;million paid in June 2011 for Marilyn Monroe's "subway dress" from ''[[The Seven Year Itch]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-monroe-idUSTRE75I2NM20110619 |title=Marilyn Monroe "subway" dress sells for $4.6&nbsp;million |work=Reuters |date=19 June 2011 |access-date=10 July 2021 |archive-date=17 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517042735/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-monroe-idUSTRE75I2NM20110619 |url-status=live }}</ref> Of the two dresses that Hepburn wore on screen, one is held in the Givenchy archives while the other is displayed in the Museum of Costume in Madrid.<ref name="BBC2">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6209658.stm |title=Auction Frenzy over Hepburn dress |work=BBC News |date=5 December 2006 |access-date=6 December 2006 |archive-date=14 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914183601/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6209658.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> A subsequent London auction of Hepburn's film wardrobe in December 2009 raised £270,200, including £60,000 for the black Chantilly lace cocktail gown from ''How to Steal a Million''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hepburn/hepburns-wardrobe-sells-for-double-estimate-idUSTRE5B83YH20091209 |title=Hepburn's wardrobe sells for double estimate |work=Reuters |date=9 December 2009 |access-date=8 December 2021 |archive-date=8 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208171629/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hepburn/hepburns-wardrobe-sells-for-double-estimate-idUSTRE5B83YH20091209 |url-status=live }}</ref> }}

In 1999, [[HarperCollins]] published ''Audrey's Style'' by Pamela Keogh, a 340-page tome devoted to Hepburn's personality, beliefs and style. The book included interviews with some of the people who knew her best, and also included many photographs of her, some of which had been rarely seen before.<ref>{{cite book | isbn=0060193298 | title=Audrey Style | last1=Clarke | first1=Pamela Keogh | date=7 April 1999 | publisher=HarperCollins }}</ref>