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Audrey Style

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Audrey Style is a stylish, attractive coffee table book. However, it's just that: a coffee table book, best enjoyed by keeping it around (preferably on a coffee table), thumbing through the pictures every so often, and merely skimming the text in a couple of places.

The pictures, of course, are great. After all, they're pictures of Audrey Hepburn! There's an enormous amount of pictures of her at various points in her career, and most of them truly seem to capture the grace, sophistication, and effortless style inherent in Audrey (and apparently missing in the world today.)

The actual writing, though -- the "book" part -- falls short. It's a good read, and you'll learn a thing or two about Audrey, but nowhere is it genuinely insightful or analytical. The book is peppered with anecdotes that will make you think "Oh, how nice!" or "Oh, how funny!" ...but I'd like to think that there was more to Audrey than that.

Too often, the book goes for unneccessary glorification. Every so often, you'll come across a quotation such as this:

"Audrey Hepburn was really great. She was nice and beautiful and stylish and everybody wanted to be like her. There can be no one else like her." -- Someone From Hollywood

Audrey Style is adorned with this sort of fluffy adoration, and even if the praise is due, it gets a little stale after being repeated so often.

I'm also a little disappointed that a book titled "Audrey Style" is more of a biography than an analysis of her style; although the "style" part is present, I would have liked to see much more.

To sum up: it's a good book, but it isn't that profound. The pictures make it worth buying, however; buy it for the pictures, keep it on your coffee table, and be dazzled by the glory that is Audrey. Just don't expect the words to capture her essence nearly so well.

Pretty pictures? Check. Text? Check. Quotes? In spades. Depth? Um... hold on.

I bought this book at the disgusting price of $40. For $10 more I could have bought a brand-new Treasures if I hadn't already had it. I expected something, larger, thicker, with more pictures, never-before uncovered facts and what-have-you. But I got pretty much none of that except pictures.

Don't get me wrong, it was a nice book and the pictures were- well there were a couple I hadn't seen, but I've seen a lot. I just don't understand what this book even was! Was it a biography? Well it couldn't have been because it wasn't very in depth. It was like Mrs. Keogh wanted to write a biography about Audrey but she decided to skip over the parts she found boring which was silly.
With a title like, 'Audrey Style', I kind of expected sole analyzation of Audrey's clothing and such. But alas, I can't even tell you what I got. I don't know what hindered Mrs. Keogh from doing that.

She calls it a 'Style Biography', what is that supposed to mean? Could that be any more cryptic? It's either one of the other, really. And she put in all of these stupid stories about fan's encounters with her and such. Half the book was just quotes she ripped and half the time I couldn't tell whether Mrs. Keogh was talking or if I was reading a quote. Yeah we get it, Audrey was better than us and she's everything everyone aspires to be.

There were just too many hyperboles in the book. For example, "Audrey wore the clothes in Sabrina and SHOCKED THE WORLD". I doubt she riveted the world.

Decent book. Morbidly overpriced. I know it's pretty near impossible, but DO NOT pay anything over $20 for this piece of fluff, or you will be sorely disappointed.

I really like this book-it really shows what an absolutely beautiful lady she was-she certainly was very sensual and sexy.She knew how to project herself without going overboard-
the lady had class and it really showed.There aren't any actresses like Audrey anymore-I really miss her.

I highly recommend getting this book.

A book like this should have more pictures. The ones it does have don't have captions. The writing is fairly ameteurish but does have some interesting stuff despite being from an angle I didn't like. I didn't like the big black pages with the white lettered quotes not just because some of the quotes weren't especially good, but because you can't read the middle that is in the binding and seems to be poor quality ink or paper. All around this book is just okay, great topic, poor delivery.

A fun book for all Audrey admirers with a gentle warning to unquestioning mimics: The essence of Audrey is not to follow.

This book is great for any Audrey Hepburn fan. It has an abundance of pictures of her throughout her life and in the back of the book the source of each photo. I was also impressed with biographical content. I really was not expecting much from the content but it was fun to read, recapturing moments from her movies, anecdotes of those who knew her, and more. However, if you are looking for a straight biography of Audrey Hepburn I would recommend Barry Paris' Audrey Hepburn book. This book is for those who, as the title implies, love the style of Audrey Hepburn. If you adore her clothes or her make up, and are interested in further appreciating that side of Audrey then buy this book. If you are simply interested in fashion of the 50s and 60s you may also want to look into this. And if you love Audrey Hepburn do not hesitate to look at this book.

This book really shows you many lovely photos of Audrey Hepburn and a lovely biogrpahy on her life, that doens't go into detail, but is v ery refreshing. It talks mainly about her sense of style and comments fromt he people who knew and loved her. It shows her style, charm and wonderful femininty, always elegance and lovely clothes. Her style never goe sout of fashion.

I'm a huge Audrey fan but this one kind of leaves me cold. There are much better selections out there, shop around

The book has lots and lots of photos and You get a good glimpse into her clothing style.

I have to admit that my clothing style changed a bit after i read this book...

The book has lots and lots of photos and You get a good glimpse into her clothing style.

I have to admit that my clothing style changed a bit after i read this book...